Re: [sugar] offline moodle

2008-07-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:19 PM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, after looking a bit deeper into it, AIR isn't entirely open source, > though it uses open source parts which are interesting to us (sqlite for > example) Thanks for confirming that. > Let's wait to see what Bryan

Re: [sugar] offline moodle

2008-07-02 Thread David Van Assche
Hi Martin, 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, t

Re: [sugar] offline moodle

2008-07-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:50 PM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [sugar] offline moodle

2008-07-02 Thread Sameer Verma
Bryan Berry wrote: > That's a great overview David, > > We need to get working quickly on developing course materials. Our two > full-time educators, Kamana and Sunil, currently write out lesson plans > and activity descriptions in MS Word. Not quite ideal :) > I want to get them using Moodle asap.

Re: [sugar] offline moodle

2008-07-01 Thread David Van Assche
> Cool. This is somewhat of a re-post of an earlier message to > server-devel, IIRC. I'm glad you've done more research on the jolongo > track as I hadn't heard of it before. > The developers seem highly motivated to do something that would work for olpc too, its basically their Master's thesis, a

Re: [sugar] offline Moodle

2008-07-01 Thread Bryan Berry
I should caveat that this is my idea on how best to use him. others in the OLE Nepal team may want him to focus more on our fedora-commons based E-Library. don't worry, it's all open-source :) and all will code and config will be available by an open-source license except for our passwords :)

Re: [sugar] offline Moodle

2008-07-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will be speaking w/ a potential full-time volunteer today who has some > significant web development experience. I will discuss w/ him the > possibility of working almost entirely on offline Moodle for the next 12 > months.

Re: [sugar] offline Moodle

2008-07-01 Thread Bryan Berry
Martin, I will be speaking w/ a potential full-time volunteer today who has some significant web development experience. I will discuss w/ him the possibility of working almost entirely on offline Moodle for the next 12 months. He may take you up on your generous offer of mentoring. >In other wor

Re: [sugar] offline moodle

2008-07-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:01 AM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm currently working with OLE Nepal to find the best solution for > synchronising online and offline course material via Moodle. There are > currently 2 projects that do exactly this via different mechanisms, though

Re: [sugar] offline moodle

2008-07-01 Thread Bryan Berry
>Don't you have a local moodle install in the office? that might help in >the very short run... already set up and hope to get Kamana and Sunil started on it later this week. >What is surprising is how fast it runs... basically instant >gratification... though maybe flash intensive items might

Re: [sugar] offline moodle

2008-07-01 Thread David Van Assche
Hi Bryan, Comments are inline... On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a great overview David, > > We need to get working quickly on developing course materials. Our two > full-time educators, Kamana and Sunil, currently write out lesson plans > and act

Re: [sugar] offline moodle

2008-06-30 Thread Bryan Berry
That's a great overview David, We need to get working quickly on developing course materials. Our two full-time educators, Kamana and Sunil, currently write out lesson plans and activity descriptions in MS Word. Not quite ideal :) I want to get them using Moodle asap. It will improve collaboration

[sugar] offline moodle

2008-06-30 Thread David Van Assche
Hi, I'm currently working with OLE Nepal to find the best solution for synchronising online and offline course material via Moodle. There are currently 2 projects that do exactly this via different mechanisms, though currently they use what some might consider to be a heavy memory and cpu footpr