On Oct 2, 2008, at 12:52 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 2 Oct 2008, at 05:06, David Farning wrote: > >> I had several conversation last weekend about how to help foster >> small deployments. The overarching theme was that communities need >> a mechanism to communicate and collaborate while they learn about >> this 'Sugar stuff'. >> >> After much thought about web2.0 and social medial tools, I finally >> got back to--why don't we use the collaborative tools in sugar to >> help groups learn about Sugar. >> >> Would it be feasible for Sugar Labs to set up jabber servers so that >> individual deployments have a zero cost mechanism to collaborate >> among themselves. If I remember, this was an issue that Bill Kerr >> faced in his lab. > > Oh yes, please!!! That goes for the community of Sugar testers too, > it's been an absolute <insert your favourite noun profanity> trying to > find working jabberd servers to smoke test activity sharing et al. And > my goodness do we need more testing there...
I'm sorry. Try schoolserver.media.mit.edu or schoolserver.laptop.org. These have been running for a year. > P.S. I'm guessing Gadget, and maybe also Cerebro, will be the two > milestones needed to be passed before this becomes a reality, dates > for both seem fairly vague still though I think Gadget may be getting > closer. The design of future collaboration in Sugar is a mystery to me. There have been no documents written. wad _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
