On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:06 AM, David Farning <dfarn...@activitycentral.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langh...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 11:46 PM >> To: David Farning >> Cc: Aleksey Lim; server-devel@lists.laptop.org; > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org; >> olpc...@lists.laptop.org; dextr...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> Subject: Re: [Dextrose] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Server project initiation >> announce >> >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:44 PM, David Farning >> <dfarn...@activitycentral.com> >> wrote: >> > You are 100% correct in these criticisms and concerns about Activity >> > Central. We are a new company working in a new market. Failures and >> mistakes are inevitable. >> > If you have been hurt by those mistakes, I apologize and accept full >> > responsibility for them. >> >> Hi David! Look -- thanks for being so frank and open. Past it the past, and > I've >> made mistakes aplenty myself. What I was trying to say >> was: you seem to be doing the same thing again. Like now. I mean -- today. >> >> How 'bout taking a slightly different tack? You just posted last week about > cookie >> licking, which if you think about it... that perhaps applies to those big > Ubuntu >> announcements last year for example. >> Perhaps could apply to this server thing -- we don't know yet. As I said, I > frankly >> hope I am wrong. >> >> Anyway -- of course there may be business reasons for your forking. Happens. >> >> It's just that on the "working with the existing project", the score isn't > looking too >> good. I mean -- Aleksey subscribed to the xs-devel list, and his first >> message > there >> was the opener of this thread. >> >> Classic. > > Based on Aleksey's past history of making good technical decisions, producing > good implementations based on his designs, and his ability to work effectively > with the existing community, I believe that what he produces will be a net > gain > for the Sugar/olpc ecosystem. > > As such, AC has given him the freedom to spend the next 6 months working on > the > server project. > > The technical decisions of how Aleksey solves the problem are separate from > the > business decisions of where Activity Central allocates its developer resources > > david > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > >
Again, I like where this discussion is going, so it may be worthwhile to take some of this back to the drawing board. There is the issue of: 1) distro independence 2) content mgmt vs server admin separation 3) school vs library approach (curricular aka XS vs referential aka pathagar) Without building yet another school server, can we merge/improve upon what's already here? Incidentally, Nick Doiron has a post up on the Khan Academy videos being served offline (I've thought of the same situation, but with TED videos). http://mapadelsur.blogspot.com/2011/06/khan-academy-follow-up.html Neil Dsouza of http://teachaclass.org is in Indonesia (I think) setting up offline servers to serve Khan videos in an offline format. I hope to speak with him next week to see if we can collaborate/merge any of the efforts. Choice is good. Fragmentation, not so much. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel