[p2pu-dev] interesting project - oer glue

[Dan Diebolt]

>I asked about open source, and apparently a lot of the code is GPL v3. The
"proxy" is not - and I didn't totally understand the role of the proxy, but
hopefully someone more technical than me can check it out.

A video recorder might be a helpful analogy to understand OER Glue
platform. The Chrome extension that OER Glue uses is like a video recorder
that can surf around the web with and identify page content such as a
youtube video, a wiki entry, or narrative text and record them into a
lesson. The lesson is stored on the oerglue web site as a JSON data
structure and represents the video tape. The proxy is the playback machine
that will sequence you through lessons and display the selected content
from the constituent web pages you selected. I guess they call it a proxy
because during playback behind the scenes they visit each web site you
recorded with the Chrome extension and re-serve to your browser
the selected content from the constituent web pages you selected.
I believe that Chrome extension is the open source part and OER glue will
export the data structure which represents the content and web pages you
selected. However, the proxy which does the playback is not open source.
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