<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Martin Langhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Walter Bender<<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> We plan to set up a server tomorrow at the Gardner School. Can you point to<br>
> those instructions you followed to your success?<br>
<br>
</div>The question is, IMO: what does gadget do better? The best I<br>
understand is that when there are many XOs it can show a random subset<br>
in your network view. That is all that is _implemented_ at the moment.<br>
It may show promise but what we have is this.<br>
<br>
And I don't find "a random subset" very compelling. The patches I've<br>
done for ejabberd + moodle make a lot more sense, IMHO. And scale a<br>
ton more because Moodle feeds a bit of data to ejabberd and gets the<br>
hell out of the way. It's not clear to me how ejabberd+Gadget<br>
(erlang+python) scale in terms of memory, resource contention and CPU.<br>
<br>
Frankly, I'd love to get rid of my ejabberd patches. Right now, I'm<br>
doubtful that Gadget will satisfy the Sugar team's expectations.<br>
<br>
Unless Gadget has moved forward considerable in the last 3 months, or<br>
if it's generally just more advanced than I think it is.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>It is my understanding it somehow uses less network resources, but I don't have that much information.<br><br>For my specific application, I will be using the Moodle/ejabberd combination, but as someone asked, I figured I would try it out and see if gadget worked. I can at least report I was able to configure it<br>
<br>As noone is working on gadget right now, and I don't have any information on how it works or where one would go to get that information, or how to use it to improve collaboration, I can't do much with it.<br><br>
Dave<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
cheers,<br>
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m<br>
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