On Feb 17, 2007, at 11:18 PM, Joshua Gargus wrote:

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> As simple example, the last time I looked I didn't notice any  
> webcam support in Sophie.  I assumed that this omission might be  
> intentional.  If someone emails me a Sophie document, and the  
> webcam "at the other end" isn't enabled, do I simply see a blank  
> screen?  What if the webcam is on, but nobody is there (pretty  
> boring)?  The issues with Croquet seem analogous.

Ah, well there are only so many hours in the day, I"m sure Michael  
would admit to have done a frightening number of work hours on Sophie  
in the last couple of week.
Buried in there are things like import/exporting stickies & highlight  
markers for reader/author interactions, and we did fiddle a bit with  
pushing live comments on books from readers to all readers of a book  
from the server. No there is no collaborative editing environment ,  
only so many months in a year, mind since you can embed books in  
books and link over the internet to either a sophie server or plain  
http server one could imagine some workarounds to allow people to  
work on parts of a book.

However we've been really busy building the Rome/Cario rending  
underpinning instead of worrying about webcam support. I'll note of  
course the
license  http://www.sophieproject.org/about/license, which means  
people can take this stuff and run.

There is an extension plugin layer if someone gets around to  
documenting it and a fair amount of quicktime  interfacing now, so  
adding webcam support *couldn't* be too difficult.

Er just pick that exit to squeak menu item....




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