Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

[Gary C Martin]

On 19 Feb 2009, at 02:28, Wade Brainerd wrote:

> Hey James,
>
> I always have set my XOs using the Control Panel to one of the  
> servers listed here:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers
>
> Most often it's the schoolserver.media.mit.edu server which is  
> designated as for developers.
>
> I have never had good luck getting XOs on the network to see each  
> other without a server.  Sometimes it has worked, but not lately.

Hmm, interesting. I've had no problems here with 3 XOs all seeing each  
other, either via Mesh, or the single AP I have here. For most of the  
last ~4 months I've usually had them all with a blank jabber server  
setting and have been test collaborating locally. Actually, it's much  
more testable/repeatable now that the jabber server is not set by  
default, the default always seemed to be off-line; broken due to  
server load; or more recently, running some test Gadget build that  
prevented you from seeing anyone else.

Actually that raises a question, did Gadget make it in to the 8.2.1  
build? Or is this still a future maybe? I take it it is/would be a  
Sugar future feature/dependancy?

--Gary

> Cheers,
> Wade
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:21 PM, James Simmons <jim.simmons at walgreens.com 
> > wrote:
> Wade,
>
> This weekend I tried to get my two computers running Fedora 10 with  
> the Sugar RPMs to share with one another, with no luck.  Back when I  
> was using Xubuntu there was a collabora server that the Xubuntu RPMs  
> had installed by default, and I was able to set up my XO to use it  
> using a command line something like this:
>
> sugar-control-panel -s jabber olpc.collabora.co.uk
>
> When I try to do that now I get a python stack trace (if that's the  
> right word) and I still get an empty neighborhood view..
>
> I was lead to believe a few months ago that two instances of Sugar  
> on the same network would find each other and be able to share even  
> without a jabber server between them.  I couldn't get that to work  
> then and it doesn't work now.
>
> In any case, I have two machines running Fedora 10 and I want them  
> to be able to collaborate.  I should be able to run multiple  
> instances of Sugar on one of these machines as well.  I don't have  
> my own jabber server.  How would you suggest I set up a test  
> environment for collaboration?
>
> Thanks again,
>
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> Wade Brainerd wrote:
> Hey James,
>
> FYI here is the collaboration code in Colors!
>
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/colors/repos/mainline/blobs/master/colors.py#line641
>
> It's fairly well commented but let me know if you have any questions  
> about how it works, or what you should do differently in Read Etexts.
>
>
>
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