No 'Kolibri' web page as of yet - only http://dgv.aardworks.nl/, but
that's all Dutch etcetera. There is a user manual which is more a
design document than a user manual (it was written to describe how the
software should work, then we started building and of course caught up
with reality ;-)). It is in English and should give a good first
impression: http://dgv.aardworks.nl/KolibriUserManual.pdf


On 10/2/05, stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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