[sugar] collaboration, technical means?

[J.M. Maurer]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:00 -0600, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> Ivan Krstić wrote:
> > Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> >   
> >> Technically, what is the means for collaboration? VNC?
> >>     
> >
> > How do you mean?
> >
> >   
> AbiWord has a custom collaboration system (AbiCollab) developed by the 
> finest AbiWord hackers and which will be featured on all platforms (with 
> some UI luck) in the next major release.  It is my understanding that 
> OLPC will use a specific backend (TCP instead of Jabber, but I may not 
> know what I'm talking about) for word processor collaboration.  Based on 
> my experience within the AbiWord project, it seems as though 
> collaboration may be the responsibility of each activity, rather than 
> any sort of all-encompassing system. 

For the presence stuff, AbiWord will use the OLPC presence system. For
the transport system, I plan to use plain TCP for now, as it clearly
involves less overhead than XMPP.

     A. Marc