-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 J.M. Maurer wrote: |> Have you used Gobby? It's the shared editor that people at OLPC |> _actually_ use, and having per-user background colors is among its key |> features. | | Not sure if I read this correctly, but are you implying that Write's | collaboration is not used, but Gobby's is?
Yes. OLPC developers may have been using Write for collaborative document authoring, but I am not aware of it. I am aware of several occasions on which Gobby has been used for this purpose, for example for preparing minutes for a meeting on IRC. | If so, is there any | particular collaboration issue/bug that needs my attention? Not a bug. There are two issues: 1. To the best of my knowledge, Write's collaboration system does not interoperate with any application that is available on non-Sugar desktops. ~ Thus, in order to make use of Write, all participants must have an XO, emulator, or sugar-jhbuild running. I do not see this as a significant obstacle in a Rwandan elementary school, but in the diverse environments of OLPC volunteers, we cannot assume that everyone has easy access to a Sugar instance. In my view, the ultimate solution to this is to push our Telepathy-based collaboration stack upstream into the standard Linux desktop environments. ~ Until then, we should come up with a streamlined Sugar emulator that makes it easy to run an Activity like Write under any standard Linux desktop. 2. Sugar collaboration over the internet requires a specialized Jabber server. It has proven difficult to set up such a server at all, and impossible to set up a server that can be made public without collapsing under the load. Hopefully, after the Gadget work is complete, we will begin to see reliable public collaboration servers appear. - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiCZHkACgkQUJT6e6HFtqSjfQCfaoF+5IbBo6aFsRFwX5LV6jOb vmoAoIZ/VhpLCcygbI1eHQa2jjzLo99k =DkVL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel