The chat badges are actually functional, but they are "not civilized". I've been giving demos for years using them. And they do much more, they can also do real time screen sharing with multiple cursors. There is a form of VOIP that can be used to talk back and forth.

But this is not currently a "supported feature". There is not a good UI for setting up the badges. And the badges need the IP address rather than a name in a registry, etc. We expect to have a much more flexible and supported version of these features by the end of 2006.

The second paragraph indicates that your students might be working in Squeak rather than in the children's etoys system which is on top of Squeak. If so you should probably go to squeak.org instead of using squeakland for these kinds of questions. Squeak has an extensive development system, and there are some interesting packages for it, including one by Umezawa-san in Japan that is set up for joint development over a network.

For the ultra version of all this (and a peek into the future a few years from now) look at http://opencroquet.org .

Cheers,

Alan

At 10:39 AM 12/13/2005, Bob Irving wrote:

Does anyone know of any way for multiple authors to work on the same project? I realize the Chat badges aren't really functional, but I wondered if anyone has come up against this?

I have 2 students working on the same project on two separate computers which are networked, and they would like to be able to compile changes (in other words, some sort of versioning system).

I hope I've given enough information for someone to answer the question.

Bob Irving
Middle School Technology Facilitator
Lancaster Country Day School
Lancaster, PA
Blog: www.e-lcds.org/wordpress/
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