On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 5:53 PM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the Google Gears rpm is finished (good lesson for me on how to package > for Fedora) and we are working on the final obstacle for Browse, which is > finding where in God's name the chrome subdirs are supposed to go... when > thats done, we can create the browse rpm too...
Excellent - is the srpm or the makefiles available anywhere? Might be a good idea to post to Fedora-devel about it, it is sure to get a review, and perhaps some help with its long-term maintenance... >> So I have a slightly different plan :-) > > This is great, but we should look for an interim solution to full blown > Offline Moodle, something we can start using soonish... But maybe what you > outline below is an interim solution... I guess we'll know when we start > coding... It is. I am not sure how familiar you are with Moodle, but this is the clearest practical plan I can think of that gives us working code ASAP and also gives us a long-term maintainable codebase & approach. I have been working with the goriest parts of Moodle internals for more than 4 years, and the offline moodle problem has been in the back of my mind for at least 2. Maybe that helps :-) > Maybe we should talk to Moodle and make this official with them somehow? I am in touch with the moodle.org crowd quite a bit, and they know my offline moodle plans - in a vague outline as I have described in this email. I weighted mentioning it on moodle.org when Tony posted, but I rather wait until we have things a bit more organised and fleshed out. If we can flesh out the plan above with you and Tony, and see what time you guys can put into it, we can probably move the disucssion to either "general developer forum" or the "offline moodle" forum. But we need to have our plans a bit more polished :-) > That might get some of the other projects to join our efforts.. It seems > silly to have 3 forks of offline moodle, and from what I've seen so far the > Gears method by far outweighs the benefits of the other methods... The OU crowd has a product with users out there, and can't jump ship immediately. The AIR guys may be too far down their path. I am confident that I have a solid plan and as soon as we can get working code done people will slowly start to play with it and eventually join us. But it is always like that in any project - more visitbie with FOSS but ever present - _you_ have to crack the nut, show a viable path with working code. And only then others will follow. My main concern is that I don't have any time to work on this for a few months. I will be doing ancillary stuff (moodle authentication, etc) but cannot work on this. > Authentication is one of the first things that need looking at, since a > Moodle user must login in order to download anything... Not for our use case -- the user on the laptop is always the same user on moodle, and gets auto-login. That simplifies things - so let's not worry about it for now. Yes, we will have to solve it, and I have a couple of plans there.but not on the first day :-) > Some of the first course material should probably be related on how to use > Moodle and Offline Moodle... we could use that to create some skeleton > courses that work both online and offline... Don't worry - if we do something nice, the moodle crowd will help us write that in _no time_. > How do we split the next workload? We should have a chat (phone, skype, irc) about this if possible. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel