Re: [ecf-dev] Google Wave

[Craig Ugoretz <craigugoretz2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott,

     Thank you for your quick response.  I wanted to add by way of
clarification is that the conversation that I spoke of before all are
tied to objects displayed in the Geogebra views.  For instance, user's
may want to talk about a line that has just been added in the GeoGebra
graphics view, so it has a pin attached to it to show that it is the
subject of conversation.  The mapping view may show the approximate
location of that conversation's pin in the entire 2D space of the
graphics view.  This is similar to games like SimCity, for example,
that give a little bird's eye view of the terrain off in a corner.
Also, each Geogebra pin corresponds to a blip in Google Wave.  Dialog
blips may refer to the Geogebra blips and vice versa.

      To everyone who reads this:  thank you for your patience.  This
is a rough attempt to put into words a rough drawing at this time.
However, are there any other Eclipse mailing lists  or others that you
think would be relevant to this idea that I ought to contact as well?
Bottom line, yes I think that if Eclipse is well suited to my task
(and I think with its view/editor management functionality it could
be), I think the ECF would work out just fine. :-)

                                                               Craig Ugoretz

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Craig,
>
> Craig Ugoretz wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>    So far, I am the only person working on an integration of Geogebra
>> (http://www.geogebra.org) with Google Wave (wave.google.com/).
>> Geogebra is an application for people to collaborate in the process of
>> learning mathematics.  Google Wave is a next generation communications
>> and collaboration platform.  I found one correspondence concerning
>> making Google Wave part of the ECF.  Where is that project at?
>>
>
> ECF has a provider architecture, which allows arbitrary protocols to be
> supported.  So to communicate with Google Wave clients/servers essentially
> means creating ECF providers that talk the wave protocol.  This enhancement
> request is tracking this work (which is ongoing, and I myself am now working
> on it):
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=280347
>
>>    I have one rough drawing on paper of how Eclipse perspectives,
>> views, and editors could be employed in an integrated Geogebra --
>> Google Wave environment.  There could be Google Map-like views of
>> where conversations are taking place on 2D canvases (in the case of
>> the Geogebra graphics editor) or other formats that could pan the
>> Geogebra algebra and spreadsheet editors  Selecting a pin representing
>> a conversation in one of those editors could send a user to the Google
>> Wave conversation view, which shows threads in a tree structure just
>> like the Google Wave web client currently operates.  However, clicking
>> on a Geogebra blip brings up a particular instance of Geogebra in the
>> process of being worked on.  The crux of the matter is that multiple
>> people could edit a Geogebra view simultaneously, as well as have
>> dialogs with one another.  Does it make sense to use Eclipse in the
>> way just described to facilitate this integration?
>>
>
> Yes, I think it does.  An ECF wave provider does not say anything about what
> views/user interface is exposed at the application level, and your ideas
> here seem completely valid to me.  And, I think an ECF provider can/could
> support what you are describing.
>
>>    I have started a project on sourceforge.net called GWFusion.  I
>> would appreciate any comments or interest that people may have.
>>
>
> We would be happy to work with you if you would be interested in
> participating in the development of...or using...the ECF wave provider.
>
> Scott
>
>
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