At 7:58 AM -0400 9/29/99, Tom Morgan wrote:
I've been noticing how lonesome it is inside an image.
There are lots of strong place based/community elements which surround Squeak. These are currently formed by the basic networked apps of email, the discussion Swiki, the mail archives, and so on.
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Are there others padding around this collaborative territory?
Joining in the chorus of people working on this: Creating a "collaborative dynabook" is the focus of the Georgia Tech Squeakers.
- We already have Lex Spoon's MuSwiki which allows for Swiki-like sharing of any Morph (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/projects/squeakers/10.html).
- As you mentioned, Dino (Dean Mao) has been working on ICsQueak, and is trying to move that into realtime chat with generic objects.
- Bolot Kerimbaev and Je77 Rick are working on Comanche (a new webserver to replace PWS that will provide a framework for doing other kinds of networked apps, like Linda) and Comanche Swiki (which we're already testing in several classes with tremendous results). Je77 (pronounced "Jeff") has a goal of creating an audio Swiki.
- I've been pestering Jeff and Andreas with questions because we are interested (down the road) in using Wonderland to create scriptable, sharable 3-D worlds.
Mark
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