There is some work being done at Meadan on mapping users and a scalable interface -- this might represent an opportunity for convergence. if the "thin client" (xo) didn't have processing power to generate/update in realtime, you could generate such a map on a server, or peer to peer on another cluster of computers (ex peer "donors"), and perhaps push over a simple bitmap using ajax?
On 10/20/07, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Representation of massive numbers of XOs in the network is definitely an > interesting problem. It may be a little early to jump into providing > solutions, but I dealt with the problem recently while working on my > space activity, and space itself can be a scarce resource on screen, > especially if you won't the layout of the icons to make some sense. > > Given a standard amount of space (the screen size), one approach is > resize the icons in order to accommodate more icons on screen. But do we > just resize all icons equally? I'd say no, because you may want to keep > close friends at standard icon size and have everybody else shrink > according to the level of interaction you may have with them. So, one > size does not fit all. > > I would even go as far as to propose a Google Earth approach, where you > zoom-out above ground and back in to focus on the people you're looking > for. Also, providing a "temperature map" of human clusters may be > another approach. I understand that the processing power required in > both cases may also be "massive" and therefore prohibitive, but I just > meant to layout some ideas. > > Pol > > Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: > > Thank you, Walter, > > > > Ah, yes. I would think that we could emphasize the "openness" of > > platform so that letting people setup their own Jabber server would be > > one way to go, as it is more likely that the buyers of G1G1 will have > > some other computers. > > > > Still an SNS system hooked up with laptops ID might be good. > > Customizable SNS engines like OpenPNE could be a good starting > > point to set up something relatively in short time... > > > > -- Yoshiki > > > > At Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:33:09 -0400, > > Walter Bender wrote: > > > >> Even outside of the context of the G1G1 program, many of your > >> questions are relevant. The current "neighborhood view" will not scale > >> for a large school. We have a number of enhancements to the view in > >> the works, principally filtering. (As Philip mentioned, the "friends > >> view", to which you invite people, is in essence a filtered > >> neighborhood view--there can be many others.) In the context of a > >> school or community deployment, there will be multiple Jabber servers, > >> but we will also want the Jabber servers to talk to each other at some > >> level, so that there are bridges between islands of users. For G1G1, > >> there will be a default Jabber server, but undoubtedly more will pop > >> up. > >> > >> -walter > >> > >> On 10/20/07, Yoshiki Ohshima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> Recently, I talked with some folks who are trying to do promotion of > >>> the give one get one program, and some issues (all are related) came > >>> up: > >>> > >>> - How many users can be shown in the mesh view? > >>> - If you limit the number of buddys on the view, how do you limit? > >>> - Are we going to have many (jabber) servers for these buyers in the > US? > >>> - Are we going to have an SNS like community so that (for example) > >>> a set of friends can have a place to find each other easily? > >>> > >>> A senario was that a kid and her niece on the different coasts should > >>> be able to find each other. > >>> > >>> I don't know if there is plan for these (for the G1G1 program), but > >>> having an SNS site sounds like a good idea. The parents will feel > >>> safer if they know with whom their kids are talking. > >>> > >>> -- Yoshiki > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Devel mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > >>> > >>> > >> -- > >> Walter Bender > >> One Laptop per Child > >> http://laptop.org > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Todd Kelsey 630.808.6444
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