Re: [Bodington-developers] Quotas Implementation

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Sean Mehan wrote:
> I agree about the quota thing from Matthew's perspective. Disk is cheap. 
> Backup might not be, but perhaps with the MyBodWebFolderYourFavNameHere 
> idea of allowing people to have space on their box, it might be better 
> to invest time in separating the individual user file space from more 
> traditional rooms?

I don't think this would be too difficult... I split UploadedFileSession 
from BuildingSession in my cleanup of uploaded files. The second stage 
was to change how uploadedfilesession worked for pigeon holes but this 
never got done. Changing it for home space shouldn't be too difficult, 
just need to make the changes inherit into tools created inside the home 
space.

> We are starting up an elgg (elgg.net) for our user's social needs, and I 
> suspect that that will fill up far faster than the more stuffy vle, 
> because people will want to fill it up with interesting stuff, not their 
> course work.
> 
> BTW, we will be looking at tying that elgg into our groupspace, e.g., 
> people would be able to find in elgg all the people on their bod course, 
> in case that is of interest to any others out there.
> 
> Also, Matthew, the stuff on partitioning the groupspace seems 
> interesting. We are planning on some work to allow for cleaner, more 
> compliant sub-grouping in bod, that means something outside of bod, 
> i.e., not everything is called ad-hoc!-)

Groups can be called anything. They are only ad-hoc when they are tied 
only to a resource. You can create sensibly named groups if you don't 
initially tie them to just one resource.

> Definitely should get heads together on this one. Perhaps the first of 
> uncle adam's agony chats?

Sure.

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