[IAEP] [sugar] Sugar Camp Cambridge 17-21 Nov

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Brendan R. Powers <brendan at resara.com> wrote:
>> I would like to propose a discussion on making the collaboration a bit more standards compliant. The idea would be to get sugar to function more like a standard jabber IM client, as well as using existing standards in place of some of the custom solutions used now (xmlrpc instead of dbus perhaps?). I would also like to talk about using the colaboration API to talk to external services not on the jabber network(a moodle server for instance). As well as a possibly a few API changes to make these sorts of services easier to access for activity developers.
>>
>> Having a standards base and flexible collaboration framework that extends beyond the sugar ecosystem offers some very interesting possibilities. I would also like to discuss some of the jabber scalability problems, as well as how we manage grouping students into classes, and collaborating with other schools over the internet.
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>> If people thinks this is a good idea for discussion I will add it to the wiki.
>
> I think it's a good idea and would like to hear more about how we
> could open Sugar up to higher levels of interoperability.

I'm interested in the topic as well -- we're already mapping out the
space with ejabberd scalability issues, group handling and moodle
integration on the server side of things. Integrating ejabberd and
Moodle seems like the natural thing to do, I have to say. And ejabberd
scalability issues, I think we have them well diagnosed -- though one
of them is somewhat hard to fix.

cheers,



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