[Sugar-devel] Automatically Join shared activity

[Frederick Grose]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Danny Iland <iland at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a graduate student at University of California, Santa Barbara,
> developing an emergency communication activity for OLPC. The core idea
> is that when XOs come into Wi-Fi range of each other, they pass
> text-based messages back and forth, with the hope that eventually one
> XO will gain internet access, and upload all messages on the device to
> an Ushahidi crisis map. We are attempting to implement this using a
> shared Activity.
>
> However, for this to be feasible, we need a way for our Activity to
> look for instances of the Activity being shared by XOs nearby, and to
> automatically join the activity. We don't want the user to have to be
> in the Neighborhood view to find other users, or to take any action to
> connect to nearby XOs. Any advice with regards to this is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> So if we are using an XO with our activity open, sharing enabled, and
> we come into Wi-Fi range of another XO with our activity open, the two
> activities should automatically share data. How can we accomplish
> this? We think a solution may exist using Telepathy and Buddies, but
> we are very unsure of exactly how to do it.
>
> Thank you,
> Danny Iland
> iland at cs.ucsb.edu
>

Not a direct answer, but this project,
http://teotwawki.steubentech.com/doku.php/

has similar passive propogation goals and was working with XO-1 laptops.

     --Fred
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