That's an interested set of ideas, and I like the general notion of implementing an overlay plane. I'm copying the games list as well, since this has implications for some of the persistent presence-based games that a few people have discussed in the past...
<br><br>SJ<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ka-Ping Yee</b> <<a href="mailto:laptop@zesty.ca">laptop@zesty.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi folks!<br><br>At a recent visit to OLPC it occurred to me that a freeform 2-D shared<br>space would be a useful thing to have on the XO laptops. As I thought<br>about it more I realized that, with a rich enough set of tools, it
<br>could enable many kinds of creativity and collaboration.<br><br>I've started writing up these ideas, with an eye particularly towards<br>incremental development, at:<br><br> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Flatland">
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Flatland</a><br><br>and I'd like to know what you think. How do you like the idea, and<br>what would you add to make it even more fun and useful?<br><br>The Flatland idea as proposed uses the overlay in a somewhat different
<br>way from the "bulletin board" design described in the OLPC guidelines.<br>How much of the bulletin board design has been worked out in detail at<br>this point? On the one hand, I'm concerned that it may be confusing
<br>for the overlay button to bring up a different bulletin board for<br>each zoom level and each activity, which is what motivated the proposal<br>in Flatland for a single overlay plane accessible from anywhere. On<br>the other hand, I do see the value in having a shared space that belongs
<br>to each activity. Can we have a discussion about how the overlay plane<br>should work, and look for ways to integrate the approaches?<br><br><br>-- ?!ng<br>_______________________________________________<br>Sugar mailing list
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