Ciao, here in Turkey they asked me how two kids or a kid and a parent may chat to each other between two households. Usually I get quite the opposite question :-)
They understand there will also be privacy concerns to be addressed, but for now they are more interested in how feasible it would be from a technical standpoint. Competitors have been telling that our laptop cannot do such things and this must be disproved. They asked me explicitly for MSN, but I explained we are using the same protocol of Google Talk instead, and that's fine as well. Specifically, they want to kn - how could they make kids from Ankara and Istanbul chat together - how could a kid talk with his parents or teachers who are using a normal computer - what server infrastructure is needed locally, or if they could piggyback on our infrastructure. They are thinking of a use case of one million kids, which is not too distant in the future. - for large schools of 1000 students, they ask how the mesh view UI would scale. Are we switching to a search-based interface in when there are so many kids clustered in the same LAN? Note that this is not the same type of scalability of air protocols: for large schools they plan to break up the network using access points and a wired backbone. - classrooms in Turkey may apparently have up to 50 students. Do we have any results for such an environment? - They asked if it is possible to configure laptops to create logical partitions of the network by classroom - They asked if video chat is possible. I recall someone was working on it months ago. What is the current status? -- \___/ |___| Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ CTO OLPC Europe - http://www.laptop.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
