(sorry for cross-postings) The first release of Cerebro is out!
Cerebro basically offers scalable presence information and a simple collaboration API. Features currently include: - presence information (including distance and route) for all other users in the network - dynamic rate of updates based on density of neighborhood: No more than 1 update every 5 seconds (on average) guaranteed. - mesh network extended to regular 802.11b/g devices - extensible user profile including nickname, colors, keys, IP addreses, picture of arbitrary size, status message etc - file sharing using an efficient multicast mechanism - simple collaboration mechanism through 'share', 'join', 'leave' functions - simple programming API based on dbus (see examples) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cerebro Enjoy! Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
