[Server-devel] July 8-12 XSCE v0.4 sprint confirmed in Manitoba

2013-06-04 Thread Adam Holt
*XS Community Edition Hacking days being all day weekdays Mon July 8 thru-and-incl Fri July 12! *Please arrive in Winnipeg *Sunday July 7, prior to dinnertime if possible*. Please depart Winnipeg *Saturday July 13, around Noon if possible*. Driving/flight/train/bus options are all possible

Re: [Server-devel] July 8-12 XSCE v0.4 sprint confirmed in Manitoba

2013-06-04 Thread Adam Holt
Sprint page is now live -- thanks all for contributing suggestions on-list or on-wiki here: http://schoolserver.org/0.4/Sprint On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: *XS Community Edition Hacking days being all day weekdays Mon July 8 thru-and-incl Fri July 12!

[Server-devel] A Path to Pathagar.

2013-06-04 Thread David Farning
One of the additions to XSCE 0.3 is the ability to add services to XSCE without having an intimate knowledge of the entire server. Our first real test of this is the inclusion of Pathagar as a bookserver. For the last three releases the XSCE project has focused on the basics: 1. Network

Re: [Server-devel] A Path to Pathagar.

2013-06-04 Thread Braddock
I'm curious how Pathagar may be applicable to our Internet-in-a-Box (http://internet-in-a-box.org). Can it scale to the 40,000 epub books in Project Gutenberg? thanks, Braddock Gaskill On 06/04/2013 01:46 PM, David Farning wrote: One of the additions to XSCE 0.3 is the ability to add services

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: A Path to Pathagar.

2013-06-04 Thread Adam Holt
Thanks you so much for asking Braddock -- importing/exporting/sync'ing large number of books for real-world libraries are too easily dismissed as curatorial gardening! Thankfully there was mention on today's call that http://calibre-ebook.comwas perfect for this job of large school libraries, but

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: A Path to Pathagar.

2013-06-04 Thread David Farning
This is where things get fun and interesting! We have tried to set Pathagar, Internet-in-a-Box, and other services up for community success on XSCE: 1. Loosely coupled -- The plugin structure means that Pathagar and IIAB need to know very little about XSCE and nothing about each other. 2. COTS --

Re: [Server-devel] A Path to Pathagar.

2013-06-04 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Braddock bradd...@braddock.com wrote: I'm curious how Pathagar may be applicable to our Internet-in-a-Box (http://internet-in-a-box.org). Can it scale to the 40,000 epub books in Project Gutenberg? That's a good question. Scaling to hold the data should be ok.