[Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal: Multimedia Broadcasting

[Eben Eliason]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com> wrote:
> It sounds as if your proposal is not so much an activity as the ability to
> screencast whatever you're doing on the XO, p2p. And it would be even better
> if the "watchers" had the ability to participate. Chris Ball has already

I've put some time into thinking about this idea from an interaction
perspective. It's a really exciting concept, and I'd be happy to
provide design help if needed!

They way I've envisioned it working is to add a "watch" option to
every shared activity (in addition to the usual "join" option), which
would allow precisely that...observing someone elses activity (just
that activity...not full screen sharing, which we might support by
adding a "watch" action to XO icons themselves, as well). I envisioned
making a composite icon for a "watch" session which wrapped the
activity icon in an icon representing the screen, and logging that
session in the Journal like any other activity. Finally, I envision
the watcher to have the ability to grab screenshots (or perhaps video
segments?) of the presentation, such that the resulting Journal entry
serves as a record of what they watched.

Eben

> made a prototype of something like this. It would be an excellent GSoC
> project to take this prototype and get it closer to where it could be a part
> of sugar for all activities. Just how close you think you can get it, is
> something you'd have to research - perhaps with the help of IRC.
>
> If you can come up with the beginnings of a workable proposal for this, and
> get it submitted before the deadline, you definitely deserve to be on our
> GSoC team! Get busy...
>
> Jameson
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Geza Kovacs <gkovacs at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am proposing a Multimedia Broadcasting activity for GSoC 2009, and
>> would appreciate any feedback or potential mentors. The idea is
>> described at:
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Multimedia-broadcasting
>>
>> This proposal is somewhat a variation on the standard audio-video
>> chatting concept; rather than having students audio-video chat
>> one-on-one, which would be redundant in a classroom where the person is
>> physically nearby, I believe broadcasting audio and video streams
>> displaying presentations or live experiments locally to the masses via
>> streaming on their laptops, thereby replacing the need to use
>> projectors, would be a good usage of the available video and audio
>> capture sources, in a classroom setting. For full details please read
>> the proposal.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Geza
>>
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