>Robert Arrowsmith wrote: >/> My take on the idea is more about providing a method for people to />/> collaborate over the internet rather than being limited to the wifi range />/> of the mesh. Since we're on the cusp of a US/Canada wide userbase through />/> the Give One Get One event it seems the collaboration facility on the />/> laptops wont be available to most people. />/> />/> I'd like to see the Sugar Neighborhood screen showing XO users linked />/> together through a server. Would it theoretically be possible to connect />/> XO users via a server to allow collaboration? While I've studied the />/> Telepathy, D-Bus and Presence docs I'm still not sure how to implement it. />/> I'm thinking a PHP front end registration/login linked to a database />>/ accessed by a presence service. /> >This already exists :) > >Telepathy is using two connection managers, telepathy-salut provides >link local presence and sharing which is for those in mesh range, and >telepathy-gabble which provides presence and sharing via a Jabber >server. The Presence Service automatically registers with the Jabber >server, so no front end is necessary. > >In the field, each school will have a schoolserver which will include >this Jabber server. > >At present, and for G1G1, there is a Jabber server preconfigured. When >you have internet access, it will "Just Work". The Neighborhood screen >does show all those on that server currently. > >The server currently in use on the images is jabber.laptop.org. I don't >know whether that server will be the default for G1G1 but I haven't >heard otherwise. > >The server configured in the sugar-jhbuild emulator is >olpc.collabora.co.uk, which is intended for developers - so if you run a >sugar-jhbuild instance it sees a different server by default to the XO >images. > > The jabber server can be configured using the control panel >(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Control_Panel). > >Regards >Morgan
Morgan, thanks a lot for your message! I certainly wasn't aware of the Japper functionality (not sure how I could have missed that!). Anyway, does that mean if a school in Peru and another one in Uruguay can agree on one 'jabber-southamerica' server or something they can work together transparently? Because one thing that I definitely think people will want to do is hook up several classes from a country (or even between countries) into a sort of virtual classroom so they can collaborate on projects! Cheers, Christoph _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
