The idea of running Sugar on the local network is very appealing. The idea of setting up a server is a pretty daunting prospect. Can I do it? Would I be allowed to do it? etc...... I would have 16 students max running Sugar but there could be another 16 or so in the next classroom.
Hmm... I have Sugar on three Macbooks. I removed the sugar labs server address from all three and verified that I could get on the internet. I could not see the other Mac books. Next, I created my own network, got all three Macbooks on the network. Nothing. I verified the network by turning on internet sharing. Still nothing. On Jun 25, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Caroline Meeks wrote: >> What can she do for a Jabber server. > > Does she need one? Sugar has serverless collaboration that works very > well... as long as there isn't too much collaboration traffic for the > network to handle. The maximum number of students seems to vary > between > 20 and 40, depending on wireless network hardware, physical classroom > layout, RF environment, etc. The limits are probably much higher for > wired networks. > > In other words, if she is only working with one classroom, she > probably > doesn't need a server. If the laptops are plugged into a wired > network, > then a server is even less likely to be necessary. > > If a server is necessary... that's trickier. Setting up a server is > a lot > of work. Personally, I think "XS as a service" would be a great > business > for some enterprising company (or even Sugar Labs itself, though that > seems less likely these days), and a free taster limited to 30 > students > per school might be just the way to get started. > > --Ben > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep