Re: [IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-21 Thread Lucian Branescu 
On 20 July 2010 23:54, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote:
 On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote:
 deployments that would like to install content bundles. They package
 these files into .xol packages and these packages get installed into
 the Library, which is contained on the left hand side of the Browse
 activity. Yes, you read that correctly...the BROWSE activity, an
 activity intended for online exploration is used to view offline
 content. Every deployment that I have shown this to has found it very
 unintuitive. Consider another example: You want to use Get-Books to

 The original goal was to blur the boundary between offline and online
 as much as possible.  You would have a large-ish cache of online
 material available offline -- including not only your textbooks, but
 also many other web sites or educational resources.  Updating a
 textbook would be as easy as updating the online source of that
 textbook, and the offline copy would get updated from that.  Surfing
 while offline to a page which was not available in the offline cache
 would create a request for that content, which would be fetched when
 you are next online, or added to a queue for your teacher to fetch
 next time they travelled to a place with internet access.

 This is a pretty straightforward extension of the wwwoffle program,
 but the necessary tuits to integrate all the pieces never appeared.

 Anyway, that's just to say that there was justification once for
 putting library content in Browse.  Don't know if that justification
 still applies.

I understand the advantages to using a browser, but people will still
be confused.

In order to keep the advantages of a browser (blurred online-offline
boundary), an SSB like the Wikipedia activity could be made to handle
this. Users would download things to their Journal, regardless of
whether those things were offline or online to begin with.

  --scott

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[IAEP] OLPC NYC/Bronx Brunch - TOPIC: East/West Africa - Sun July 25 Noon

2010-07-21 Thread Holt 
Great I've received over a dozen RSVP's for Noon Sunday (incl 3+ 
deployment people very recently returned from East/West Africa) but the 
restaurant wants a more precise count -- plz RSVP to me now if you haven't!



Holt wrote:

Marife Mago wrote:
can we include here our initial meet-up can be earlier before brunch 
or after brunch?


Yes, let's meet afterwards 2PM or soon after, for those serious about 
driving forward partic projects.


I'm quite happy to improvise walking to a nearby park/cafe/oceanfront 
etc at that time -- Soundview Park is just a few min to the South, or 
we can follow others' suggestions...


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Holt h...@laptop.org 
mailto:h...@laptop.org wrote:


Why:

   OLPC/Sugar community volunteers working in East Africa (Uganda,
   Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, etc) updating each/others working in West
   Africa (Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, etc) on their progress.

   The restaurant is a few blocks away from where the famous incident
   of Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo occurred.  The restaurant building
   is connected to the NYS Assemblyman Diaz clinic named after Diallo.

   We might even allow discussion of Sao Tome  Principe from
   http://bethstepsup.blogspot.com http://bethstepsup.blogspot.com/ since 
Beth is in fact flying thru
   NYC on her way back from Africa, exactly then :)
   
Date:


   12 NOON
   Sunday July 25th

Location:

   Fouta Food Corp Restaurant
   1762 Westchester Ave (Subway #6 Uptown Bronx St. Lawrence station)
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_%28New_York_City_Subway_service%29
   Between Commonwealth  St Lawrence Aves.
   Bronx NY 10472

   Tel: 718 792 1700
   Owner / Manager: Amadou

Menu:

   We've spoken to Amadou and he intends to provide West African's best.
   The menu is very affordable.  He'll be glad to know what would be
   your favorite dishes, wishing the very best for our team!

Please forward as appropriate, joining our open-community conversation:

   http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nyc
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC
   http://twitter.com/olpcnyc

1729 and Present Day Maps:



[ http://www.waado.org/cgi-bin/Historical/MapOfWestAfrica_1729.jpg ]
[ http://www.donparrish.com/images/EastAfricaMap.jpg ]


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