[sugar] offline moodle

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:50 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
> The developers seem highly motivated to do something that would work for
> olpc too, its basically their Master's thesis, and they seem to have a good

Cool. It will be great if they can help :-)

> In terms of Adobe AIR, I think it
> and Flex are open source, at least Flex definitly is, and I think Adobe is
> moving very seriously and very quickly in the open source direction. Talking
> to Adobe is always an option, or perhaps I'm dreaming a little :-)

Unfortunately, it's unlikely to matter in practice :-/ GG has been
open sourced at last (the initial license wasn't open enough), and
it's starting to gain adoption. We can only ship a limited amount of
sw on the XO and GG is gathering steam AFAICS. Unless AIR is based on
GG, the slot will be probably taken by GG.

And it's a good thing too. Google has shown that understands FOSS and
is making some long term bets on it. Adobe... well...

> I guess I'm going to regret this, but I'll volunteer, if you've got time to
> guide me in areas I need. I've got lots of experience with Moodle including
> teaching, and had a php based web development company for 6 years, so I
> guess I should be able to do this... though I hate coding...

You'll have to be pretty independent (my time is very stretched atm),
but if you jump on the offline moodle forum and we can start a
discussion. Having said that, with time and dedication, you can
probably get the core of it going :-)

> I've asked for the source code, so we'll se what they say...

I am more interested in *this* track, something GG-based :-)

> Open University has a LOT of content and material concerning offline moodle
> and it makes sense to colaborate with them as much as possible.

Yes, but note that their goals are _very_ limited. Read into the
details, and you'll see it's mainly about static content. Due to
various issues collaboration tools cannot run via the offline
machinery with their plan. If you search in the general developer
forum, we had a very long thread between Colin (the architect @ OU)
and myself fleshing out the plan, and what the limits were.
Unfortunately I don't have the link handy :-/

cheers,



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