[sakai2-tcc] [Building Sakai] Google Summer of Code 2012

[John Bush]

I have 5 asu students im mentoring right now so my mentoring capacity is
tapped. Run with this idea if it suits you.

Not sent with my iphone.
On Mar 15, 2012 7:22 PM, "Steve Swinsburg" <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm pretty keen to propose this idea on the Sakai GSoC 2012 ideas page and
> be a mentor for it.
>
> Would that be ok? John are you interested in co-mentoring? Anyone else?
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
> On 07/03/2012, at 7:10 AM, John Bush wrote:
>
> > We prototyped a drag and drop component that we were basically
> > thinking about putting on the bottom of the resource upload page.  I
> > think that project died somewhere but I liked the idea. It was just
> > targetted at files, but  something like that, plus support for folders
> > (not sure that's even possible), or maybe having unzip work correctly
> > in resources (not sure of the current state, but I thought there were
> > issues) would give us pretty good traction to hit the bulk upload
> > requirements.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>
> wrote:
> >> Well with flash never being supported on iOS and being depreciated from
> >> Android, it probably doesn't have too long of a future anyway, so by the
> >> time this was done it might be obsolete in flash. Though there were some
> >> pretty neat looking uploaders. An html5 version though would be great!
> >>
> >> Having a *good* bulk upload in content is certainly something I've
> wanted
> >> for awhile but the pieces just didn't seem to be there. I also wish that
> >> a ProgressListener was implemented so that there was a status bar for a
> user
> >> to be able to tell how long the upload was going to continue taking, and
> >> maybe someday even upload in the background.
> >>
> >> The was some work to use the fluid uploader a few years ago at Michigan
> but
> >> that was unfinished. It looks like the fluidproject website is down at
> the
> >> moment, so I don't know what's up with that either.
> >>
> >> I agree though that content really is in need of some usability
> improvements
> >> on the backend and frontend. :( And it also seems like any thick client
> is
> >> going to have some issues at the moment, unless something unlikely
> happens
> >> like if Dropbox open sources their client, as we could probably
> implement
> >> that style api.
> >>
> >> Locally I was reminded of a app that has a free and pro version of
> webdav
> >> for iOS and Android that is also known to work with Sakai Dav, though
> the
> >> mobile portal is also mostly functional.
> >> http://seanashton.net/webdav/
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:18 PM, John Bush <john.bush at rsmart.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I think any thick client is going to have the same problems we are
> >>> trying to avoid with webdav.  I think we'd be better served by having
> >>> a flash or html5 type drag and drop component in CLE that would let
> >>> people do bulk uploads in an easy way, but avoids having to rely on
> >>> any client specific tool outside of the browser.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Seth Theriault <slt at columbia.edu>
> wrote:
> >>>> Matthew Jones wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Even if we pass the litmus it still doesn't mean it would work,
> >>>>> which seems like it's pretty discouraging. What would be the
> >>>>> goals of this effort?
> >>>>
> >>>> The goal of last year's effort was to simplify the support for
> >>>> WebDAV by replacing our "roll-your-own, based on Tomcat" DAV with
> >>>> something updated and modern. I still think that's a valid goal,
> >>>> although we appear to be exchanging one set of headaches for
> >>>> another soemtimes.
> >>>>
> >>>> WebDAV is easier for end-users to use than sftp, even if
> >>>> Cyberduck supports it. Forcing people to use Fuse or
> >>>> yet-another-client doesn't make for friendliness.
> >>>>
> >>>> Seth
> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> John Bush
> >>> 602-490-0470
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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