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The technical decisions are tailored by: | The technical decisions are tailored by: | ||
* The particular technical implementation is fully driven by real needs of deployments like [[Deployment_Team/Peru/Puno|one-teacher schools in Peru]] and should be as simple as possible; | * The particular technical implementation is fully driven by real needs of deployments like [[Deployment_Team/Peru/Puno|one-teacher schools in Peru]] and should be as simple as possible; [[Wikipedia:KISS_principle|Keep it simple, wise man!]]; | ||
* The system, from users point of view, should just work proving high-level services that cover the full collaboration circle that should exist within Sugar learning community; | * The system, from users point of view, should just work proving high-level services that cover the full collaboration circle that should exist within Sugar learning community; | ||
* It is all about creating high-level services that use regular client-server interaction model with one addition, an optional need to make a synchronization between a distributed server and the main one, the Mothership; In other words, it is all time about having a chain of {{Code|Motherhip <-> [Distributed Server] <-> Client}} interactions; Because: | * It is all about creating high-level services that use regular client-server interaction model with one addition, an optional need to make a synchronization between a distributed server and the main one, the Mothership; In other words, it is all time about having a chain of {{Code|Motherhip <-> [Distributed Server] <-> Client}} interactions; Because: | ||
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* Local Web applications serve only one user and are much simpler than singular applications that are intended to serve thousands of users simultaneously; | * Local Web applications serve only one user and are much simpler than singular applications that are intended to serve thousands of users simultaneously; | ||
* Having simple and clean designed code, it will be easy for doers to learn, change, reimplement the frontend. | * Having simple and clean designed code, it will be easy for doers to learn, change, reimplement the frontend. | ||
== References == | |||
* An OLPC wiki page about the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sneakernet Sneakernet]. | |||