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.
....
>
>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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