[Sugar-devel] GSoC Groupthink Update: SharedTextDemo-4

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Benjamin,

On 17 Jul 2009, at 03:06, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:

> Download:
> http://bemasc.net/~bens/SharedTextDemo-4.xo
>
> Requires Sugar 0.82 or better.
>
> Short:
> This version adds support for automerge after offline editing.  User  
> may start a
> shared session, then edit separately, and when they come back  
> together their
> text will be combined automatically.  This is a strong form of  
> "asynchronous
> collaboration"
>
> Talk to me if you would like your activity to gain this capability.


I just want to raise a note of interest. I've been pondering future  
possibilities for collaboration in Physics:

	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Physics

Still early days for making a call, but Asaf has made great strides in  
getting Physics storing its world state to Journal. My thought is that  
user edit changes made to this world model might be able to use  
Groupthink to allow two or more users to collaboratively edit the same  
world model. Though, Due to the complexity of the Physics code (Sugar  
Activity wrapper + OLPCGames + pyGame + Elements + Box2D), it would  
likely mean needing work done upstream (Elements I think).

Regards,
--Gary