I'm ready to test it on mac.
Do you have a web page?
Because I would like to show it to some students...

Stef

On 2 oct. 05, at 12:34, Cees De Groot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As some of you may remember, I've been busy with a Squeak project the
> past 9 months or so under the banner of the Digital Society of the
> Past (DGV), a non-profit that aims to bring (Dutch) private persons
> and institutions together by means of peer-to-peer software. We built
> the software in wxSqueak on top of a homebrew p2p layer (dubbed
> 'Gossip'). During the project, we decided to name the base software
> 'Kolibri', so that's what the project is going to be called from now
> :)
>
> What the package does is organize the world in communities, which have
> files, members, etcetera. Also institutional collections can be made
> available, currently through the OAI protocol. Files serve as starting
> points for discussion threads, have Dublin Core metadata, and files,
> institutional collection items, etcetera can be linked together in
> relations (which themselves serve as starting points for discussions).
> Data travels over the network as required, and there's a (primitive)
> protocol to download blobs (file contents) from multiple sources at
> once.
>
> The software has largely been completed, and I'm uploading new
> snapshots almost daily on SqueakSource
> (http://www.squeaksource.com/dgv). You'll need wxSqueak 0.4 for this
> (although 0.4.1 will work as well). We still have to formally license
> it, but it'll probably end up as SqueakL+MIT code or something
> similarly liberal.
>
> I am biased, but I think this software is interesting from multiple
> perspectives:
> - it contains probably the most 'real' and most complete p2p layer for
> Squeak to date (using UDP exclusively allowing it to work through most
> residential broadband routers);
> - it is a real-world application with a native L&F using wxSqueak
> (currently the only one?);
> - even though the application was paid for by the DGV, nothing in the
> application is specific to the use of it for history. We're already
> having interest of a group of schools wanting it to disclose teaching
> materials, for example.
>
> Therefore, I think it would be useful if some people outside the scope
> of the original project, i.e. from the larger Squeak community, would
> help out to make Kolibri more useful for a larger audience.
> Specifically, some items that I can think of which are clearly out of
> scope of the project:
> - Translation to English. The software is translatable (we send
> #translated to every string literal, and have some infrastructure in
> place to use that) but the actual translation work still needs to be
> done. Probably we want to reverse the current situation where the
> default strings are Dutch and everything needs to be translated into
> English;
> - A Seaside UI as an alternative for wxSqueak - I have some ideas on
> how this could look, and this would let people play with the software
> without requiring them to install it or to ask system admins to pierce
> holes in firewalls;
> - Testing on Mac and Linux, maybe build installers for these  
> platforms;
> - A good review of the p2p layer, there are some weaknesses there that
> ideally need cleaning up (most notably the whole 'presence' stuff
> which was conceived as a quick hack to support instant messaging but
> has grown out of proportion, but the file download code could also use
> some reviewing because performance is under par);
> - Nifty stuff people come up with - both code hacks and new uses of
> the software.
> - And of course, I have a long list of ideas but this post is too long
> already :-)
>
> Anyway, if you're interested, please shout.
>
> Oh, and thanks to all the people who have helped out with advice and
> debugging during the project. Especially Rob Gayvert, who put a lot of
> hours in wxSqueak support.
>
>
>