[info] [croquet-dev] Cobalt released!

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Joshua Gargus <schwa at fastmail.us>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:42:54 -0800
To: croquet-dev at duke.edu, Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [croquet-dev] Cobalt released!
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Reply-To: croquet-dev at duke.edu, Joshua Gargus <schwa at fastmail.us>


On Mar 4, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Matthew Fulmer wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 03:45:34PM -0600, Matthew Schmidt wrote:
>>  I'm cross posting again. Thought you folks would want to know  
>>that the
>>  Cobalt image showed up on the OpenCroquet wiki for download this
>>  afternoon. I posted all the links to my blog, so hit them up there.
>>
>>  http://xaverse.blogspot.com/2008/03/cobalt-released.html
>
>Hi. This looks pretty cool. I don't understand the vision behind
>this. I tried running it, but the computer I'm currently on has
>no graphic acceleration, so I couldn't do anything. I'll attempt
>some coherent questions:
>
>Is this intended to be an end-user application like KAT and
>eToys, as opposed to a development kit, like Croquet and Squeak?

(I'm not directly part of the Cobalt effort, but...)

Yes.

>Is this supposed to be a forum for communicating and sharing
>documents, kinda like Qwaq, or KAT, or for something else?
>

Yes.  One difference in emphasis is that Cobalt aims to be a  
"broswer", meaning that it aims to capitalize on the same underlying  
economic/societal/etc. characteristics that made the web explode.   
Anyone can publish their own website, which can be viewed by any  
standards-conforming browser, and be linked to from other sites.

>Heh. those are lame questions.

Not lame at all.

>I'm trying to get more acquainted
>with the Croquet community and how you guys communicate.

Surprisingly little :-)

>This is
>only the second time I heard about Cobalt (the first was last
>week). Is there a forum for advertising projects like this other
>than the croquet mailing lists and IRC channel?

opencroquet.org has links to projects using Croquet.

Josh

>
>
>I'm very interested in tools to build a better, stronger
>community among Squeak users and developers, and this seems to
>be a good start in that direction.
>
>I'll try this when I get home and hopefully come up with some
>better questions :)
>
>-- 
>Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/
>Help improve Squeak Documentation: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/808

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