Active activities as Widgets

[Gerard J. Cerchio]

Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 at 07:51:38 -0500, Eben Eliason wrote:
>   
>> I'm not sure that a multi-way video conference is even
>> feasible yet.
>>     
>
> It's certainly not in the short term - the Telepathy and Farsight frameworks,
> and the underlying protocols they currently use (Jingle), only support 1-1
> audio/video calls at this point, and we'd need a lot of API and protocol
> design work to even start on this.
>
> Whenever we've talked about video-conferencing in the office, our VoIP
> people's opinion has been that in practice we'd probably also need a (fairly
> hefty) server to multiplex the streams for us, which doesn't work so well in
> the OLPC use-case anyway.
>   
Thanks, for clearing this up Simon. I was visualizing a one to one video 
connection. I think that  Dr. Venkman has some very good advice "Don't 
cross the streams!"