Geza, Interesting proposal, and certainly a useful Activity to have. Keep in mind though, that Sugar Labs is focusing on development tools and core features more than Activities for this summer. You may also want to take a look at Video Chat [1] for an example of an Activity that had similar goals.
Nirav [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Video_Chat On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Geza Kovacs <gkov...@mit.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am proposing a Multimedia Broadcasting activity for GSoC 2009, and > would appreciate any feedback or potential mentors. The idea is > described at: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Multimedia-broadcasting > > This proposal is somewhat a variation on the standard audio-video > chatting concept; rather than having students audio-video chat > one-on-one, which would be redundant in a classroom where the person is > physically nearby, I believe broadcasting audio and video streams > displaying presentations or live experiments locally to the masses via > streaming on their laptops, thereby replacing the need to use > projectors, would be a good usage of the available video and audio > capture sources, in a classroom setting. For full details please read > the proposal. > > Regards, > Geza > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel