On Jan 5, 2008 9:01 PM, drew einhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we are going to have small local communities instead of one big one, > the we need to be able to contact multiple jabber servers, because there > will be communities organized by: > > age groups > language > xo activity > geographic region > curriculum topic > and many more
There is a strong need for non-local communication, also. Earth Treasury wants to encourage schools around the world to connect to each other, for a variety of purposes. * Education: Geography, culture, music, language, and many other topics * Collaborative global mapping projects: weather, health, agriculture, air and water quality, ecologies... * Going into business together In fact, I think we need a Social Networking Web site specifically for the children, protected from adults who might want to interfere or exploit children. And a site for teachers, parents, and other interested parties. Would anybody here like to help create such sites? > the chances that all the communities a student wants to participate in > are unlikely to all be on the same server. > > If we have large communities on big presence servers we will need more > advanced to filter My Neighborhood to show only the individuals we are > currently interested in. > > Reading the Human Interface Guidelines in looks like multiple groups > are supposed to be supported, but for now it looks like we only have > one group Friends. > > And it looks like currently the only filtering we have is pattern matching > based on nickname. > > Or is there more there that I have not figured out yet. > > > > On Jan 5, 2008 9:39 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dave Belfer-Shevett wrote: > > > I've just received my, er, my son's XO, and he's ecstatic with it, > > > enjoying fiddling with Python programs and other tidbits. I've heard > > > that the Jabber 'chat' functions are disabled on the US XO's, mostly > > > because the existing jabber hosts can't really take the load of all > > > these machines going out. > > > > > > I have machinery and bandwidth available for setting up a dedicated, > > > fairly powerful machine specifically to run Jabber for the OLPC > > > community. I have no problems building, configuring, installing, and > > > maintaining the machine in a colo facility in Bedford, MA. I'll donate > > > the hardware and time to make it work, if it'll benefit the project. > > > > > > I'm looking at a dual-Xeon 2.8 gig Ubuntu Gutsy box (1U) with a pair of > > > mirrored drives. The facility has multiple peered connections (it > > > supports a series of VOIP servers), and is well managed. > > > > > > I have experience running jabber servers, and sysadminning. Would this > > > be of benefit to the community? > > > > > > Please let me know. I can be reached on jabber at > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] , or email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] is fine too. > > > I'm also (obviously) on the devel list :) > > > > > > Thanks. I do want to contribute to the project in any way I can... > > > > > > -dbs > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Devel mailing list > > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > > > Some other people have suggested local Jabber servers, and I agree with > > them. What I think would be really wonderful would be if someone could > > make a LiveCD that would boot up as a Jabber server for XOs! It's a real > > bear to configure one, and a LiveCD would make it feasible for > > communities to do it. > > > > I've been on the xochat.com server from time to time, and there are > > sometimes so many people you can't really "meet" anyone. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > > -- > Drew Einhorn > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Edward Cherlin Earth Treasury: End Poverty at a Profit http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel