How much has been done in terms of centralising the collaborative aspects of applications by using the latest and greatest innovations to telepathy, which surely must by now have many many hooks to allow for the funkiest of ways to quickly and easily integrate collaborative sessions. I suppose the main problem is still finding the creative aspects of this, ie... what is the best way for students to share/collaborate an activity, and should that activity then even collaborate across activites with others. I took quite a stab at this a year or so ago, but got boggled down in the serious intricacies of telepathy and the way it fits with dbus and how to make the communication of elements be they on the same computer or across a network easy to understand with examples of implementation. The examples back when I was looking (tic tac toe was one) were so complex for such a simple application that it scared me away completely. I wanted to collaboratively create a quiz based app which would allow a class to take turns answering questions, and then the program could keep track of how well students where doing based on subject/timing/spelling, or whatever else the program was supposed to help students with. kind regards, David Van Assche <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:26 PM, C. Scott Ananian <<a href="mailto:cscott@cscott.net">cscott@cscott.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I was playing with Sugar collaboration between my XO-1.75 and my crazy-nephew's XO-1.5 over the weekend. We wanted to "play together", but it was hard to find which activities would let us do so. What if we added a small badge (perhaps the "ring of dots" used to switch an activity from 'private' to 'shared') to activities on the home screen to indicate that they support collaboration? That would make it easy to tell which activities allow us to play together. --scott ps. "Typing Turtle" is a great new activity which I hadn't seen before -- but it doesn't support collaboration. What if we could play the balloon-popping game together, with the first person to type the word getting points for popping the balloon? -- ( <a href="http://cscott.net/" target="_blank">http://cscott.net/</a> ) _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div>