[sugar] [IAEP] Sugar Camp Cambridge 17-21 Nov

[Bernie Innocenti]

Brendan R. Powers wrote:
> I would like to propose a discussion on making the collaboration a bit
> more standards compliant. The idea would be to get sugar to function
> more like a standard jabber IM client, as well as using existing
> standards in place of some of the custom solutions used now (xmlrpc
> instead of dbus perhaps?). I would also like to talk about using the
> colaboration API to talk to external services not on the jabber
> network(a moodle server for instance). As well as a possibly a few
> API changes to make these sorts of services easier to access for
> activity developers.
>
> Having a standards base and flexible collaboration framework that
> extends beyond the sugar ecosystem offers some very interesting
> possibilities. I would also like to discuss some of the jabber
> scalability problems, as well as how we manage grouping students
> into classes, and collaborating with other schools over the
> internet.
> 
> If people thinks this is a good idea for discussion I will
> add it to the wiki.

By all means, yes!

Make sure you also involve Martin Langhoff (school server architect)
and either Morgan Collet or Robert McQueen (not sure who of them worked
more on the Sugar/Jabber integration).

Cc'ing them all :-)

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