re: SPAM-LOW: thoughts for the library
Bryan Berry
either.
I really like Muradora process for uploading content. I find it pretty
intuitive. I will try to install it this week and modify it.
Sulo, when you get a chance, pls tour the Muradora demo on the XO
http://demo.muradora.org/ Via local login: Log in as "admin" with
password "muradora"
Also try to access the BKL prototype at http://oledev.org
Let's check if there are any compatibility issues
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 21:06 -0800, Sulochan Acharya wrote:
> I agree with Bryan. If BKL front end is the way to go, we should
> definitely think about using it.
> I tried muradora, its pretty simple, but not intuitive, but i did not
> try to modify the UI (maybe it is simple to use). I prefer Fez,
> because fez is php based, compared to muradora which is perl based
> and uses java servlets. Its a personal preference i guess, but i find
> it easier to manipulate php based applications :). One good thing
> about muradora is that they have a installation cd. Also, like Bryan
> said, we have put some work into Fez, and are pretty comfortable using
> it. I am not experienced enough to cite the pros and cons of any of
> these applications so cant really advocate using either one of them.
> Bryan has put much work into this, and I would comfortably agree with
> what he decides. But personally I don't see a problem ( at least for
> now) to use fez. Fedora+what ever GUI we use should be comparable to
> any other e-library system.
>
> Can you please let me know your findings with muradora. I only spent
> little time on it, so i don't really know much about it.
>
> cheers,
> -Sulochan
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Bryan Berry <br...@olenepal.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:24 AM
> To: ole-nepal-tech <ole-nep...@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: SPAM-LOW: thoughts for the library
>
> [Note: Sulochan and I are working on an e-library for the Dept. of
> Education. I am posting our discussion to this list because we would
> love outside help]
>
> Sulochan,
>
> Here is an update on what my ideas for the library
>
> Charlie and Andrew are doing a great job on their prototype for the
> Billion Kids Library. It is essentially a user interface + metadata
> storage and search that sits on top of something like fedora. They
> haven't decided if they will use fedora as their default repository
> but
> what they are building will be compatible w/ fedora.
>
> I think we should stick w/ fedora and use the Billion Kids Library
> (BKL)
> front-end when it becomes available. 1) because fedora is rapidly
> becoming an industry standard and 2) it beats the pants off the other
> repositories. The only problem is that its out-of-the-box UI sucks
>
>
> There are two issues w/ using the BKL
>
> 1) It isn't stable and Charlie doesn't know exactly when it will be
> ready
> 2) They are using Flexbuilder for the graphical display. I am not
> certain how well the XO supports Flash. The default flash support is
> Gnash and it runs very poorly. I installed the proprietary flash
> plugin
> on an XO a long loong time ago and it worked. I don't know if it still
> works.
>
> I am pretty impressed w/ Flex. Flex 2 isn't open-source but Flex 3
> will
> be. can you try loading the flash plugin on one of our XO's and try to
> view http://oledev.org ?
>
> I would try to do it myself but I won't have an XO w/ me for the next
> several days.
>
> Since the BKL won't be ready in the interim we should either continue
> to
> use the current fez + fedora solution we have, try Muradora which is
> supposed to be easier, take a snapshot of the BKL in development and
> try
> to use that.
>
> You put a ton of work into fez and it looks great. Can we stick w/ it
> for now or is too much of a hassle to maintain?
>
> I want to try out Muradora this week and see if it is significantly
> easier than fez. I don't know how difficult it would be to rework the
> Muradora UI into something similar to what we did for fez. Will send
> you
> the web link later.
>
> The only headache about fedora is that the Fez User interface sucks. I
> am looking at Muradora UI for fedora to see if that is a lot easier.
>
> Let's try to talk on Monday
>
> [If anyone out there has some ideas on how we could do this better,
> would love to hear it :)]
>
> --
> Bryan W. Berry
> External Relations Manager
> OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
>
>
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Bryan W. Berry
External Relations Manager
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org