Presence and IntComm WG

[Peter Saint-Andre <>]

BTW, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Instant_messaging_challenges says:

"XMPP / Jabber is the protocol of choice"

But I haven't been in close contact with the OLPC folks, so I don't know
the details.

Peter

Candace Holman wrote:
> Looks like someone is finally making the leap to incorporate presence as
> a part of the social fabric rather than isolating it to collaborative
> workspaces.  I like how the one-laptop-per-child project is taking this
> kind of risk in their design because they don't have to worry about
> pleasing everyone at once.  If they end up pleasing more than these
> lucky children, which it looks like they can do, kudos!
> 
> Thanks for the links, Neal.
> 
> Candace
> 
> Neal McBurnett wrote:
>> After reading an interview about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
>> initiative, at http://lwn.net/Articles/188073/
>>
>> I looked at the "sugar" environment and came to a posting by
>> Christopher Blizzard about how presence will be part of the
>> basic environment of the machines, rather than a separate application:
>>
>>  http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=211
>>
>>  ...
>>
>>  This image describes what we're thinking about presence. I talked
>>  briefly about this in a previous posting but this is the first time
>>  that we've really taken a step to make it part of the
>>  environment. In today's desktops, "chat" is a program. It stands
>>  alone. You can talk to your friends, you can paste text, you can even
>>  video conference, but as a program it is completely separated from
>>  the rest of the programs that you use on a day to day basis. In fact,
>>  if you go and download one of our daily images, chat is still trapped
>>  in a tab of its own.
>>
>>  Once of our stated goals is to create a social environment for the
>>  kids. So what we're trying to do is to turn the idea of presence and
>>  who is around into a basic element of the environment. Other programs
>>  that are also being used in the environment can assume that there's
>>  a method to find other people and what they can do. We hope that this
>>  will create an entire application environment that encourages
>>  collaboration and sharing.
>>
>>  So at an implementation level, what we're going to do is make the
>>  presence pane something that's always around. To save screen real
>>  estate it will probably slide in and out from the side of the screen,
>>  but if you want to choose how to share a document with a friend or
>>  send a message to someone that slide pane will pop up and let you
>>  pick which one of your friends you want to send it to.
>>
>> Think of the use-cases when these kids get to college....
>>
>> Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
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