Talk:Bundle concepts

Mel's comments

disclaimer: I may be out of the loop on certain things, so please direct me towards old mailing list threads, wikipages, etc. if there's something I should be reading to get more context. Mchua 12:52, 21 August 2007 (EDT)

I like the first ideas, to explicitly share the activity sessions, and then (1) give the individual kids the option to store that session as part of their personal journal, along with their own copies of the files involved, and (2) have individual children be able to mark items in their Journals as publicly shareable/browsable, and "share bundles" entirely through collaborative Journal viewing, whatever that turns out to be like. Basically, the Journal entry is the bundle, no need to make a separate "bundle format." Reasons:

• It seems most analogous to what I'd do in a classroom without computers - sharing a file with someone is part of working with them; by giving you a picture I drew, I'm including you in my activity of Drawing. Don't want to create yet another abstraction layer of having to think about bundling.
• Preserve separation between the idea of webservers & sharing files (I have a file on my laptop, I want to share it with yours) and the idea of a collaborative Browse activity (the two of us are looking at a website - probably an external one hosted on neither of our laptops - together).
• Uses Journals (which, according to Journals are archived on the school server) as the only mechanism for sharing content created in the past (meaning that sharing content is still done by sharing an activity on the mesh - it's just that the activity is now the Journal rather than, say, Write.)
  • Would "XO webservers" appear as shared Journals on the mesh? (Presumably, putting something into your XO webserver would be an event that would trigger a Journal entry anyway, right?)
  • As a sidenote: the Journal page is pretty sparse on the topic of filesharing - (actually, the content consists of a bullet point with the word "Sharing?") - is there a place I can get more info on Journal status? I'd like to update the page.

Quasirelated sidenote: Flatland has interesting ideas about an interface kids could use to share things, although it's not about bundling per se.