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#1 2010-02-24 16:12:53
About Collaborations
We're really interested in Collaborations / Companies because we think it's great when Scratchers work together to make interesting projects. One of our goals for Scratch 2.0 is to better support collaborations like these, so we'll be checking in from time to time to see how things are going, and to learn from your experiences.
If you have thoughts about how we can better support collaborations by Scratchers, please feel free to share them in the Suggestions forum. We often check in to consider the different ideas - especially those that Scratchers have spent time thinking through or demonstrating.
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#3 2010-02-24 16:19:10
Re: About Collaborations
BTW - I noticed that some Scratchers posting here were concerned that we might block companies that share a single account. Don't worry - we won't - we love collabs! But please make sure the password is kept secure (maybe just put a single member of the company in charge?) If we see the password shared publically, or if someone gets the password and uses the account disrespectfully, we'd probably have to block it, at least temporarily.
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#4 2010-02-24 16:22:31
Re: About Collaborations
For v2 you should make it so you can credit more than one author
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#5 2010-02-24 16:22:57
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Re: About Collaborations
archmage wrote:
For v2 you should make it so you can credit more than one author
Indeed.
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#7 2010-02-24 16:24:20
Re: About Collaborations
Dazachi wrote:
I am glad you posted this! It makes me feel good that Scratch is now supporting Collaborations a lot.
Awesome! 
Yeah we've always loved collaborations. Often when we present about Scratch at conferences we'll mention them. And it's really cool that Scratchers pretty much made collabs on their own.
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#8 2010-02-24 16:26:27
Re: About Collaborations
archmage wrote:
For v2 you should make it so you can credit more than one author
Yeah - totally, that ones definitely on the list. Crediting all the different contributors would help support remixing and collaborations in a really nice way. Andresmh is already thinking about better ways to do that.
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#9 2010-02-24 16:29:52
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Re: About Collaborations
Lightnin wrote:
archmage wrote:
For v2 you should make it so you can credit more than one author
Yeah - totally, that ones definitely on the list. Crediting all the different contributors would help support remixing and collaborations in a really nice way. Andresmh is already thinking about better ways to do that.
You guys should look at the way newgrounds does it, it allows you to select the contributors and how they contributed.
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#10 2010-02-24 16:30:21
Re: About Collaborations
Lightnin wrote:
Dazachi wrote:
I am glad you posted this! It makes me feel good that Scratch is now supporting Collaborations a lot.
Awesome!
Yeah we've always loved collaborations. Often when we present about Scratch at conferences we'll mention them. And it's really cool that Scratchers pretty much made collabs on their own.
XD
I posted my suggestion in the Suggestions section.
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#12 2010-02-24 18:36:07
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Re: About Collaborations
RHY3756547 wrote:
archmage wrote:
For v2 you should make it so you can credit more than one author
Indeed.
Quite.
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#13 2010-02-24 18:42:56
Re: About Collaborations
Lucario621 wrote:
RHY3756547 wrote:
archmage wrote:
For v2 you should make it so you can credit more than one author
Indeed.
Quite.
What about my idea? It is the same except you can say what each person did.
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#14 2010-02-24 18:44:40
Re: About Collaborations
How about the ability to send projects to collaborators without uploading them to the scratch website (the collaborators might get a notification like "username has sent you the file "File name.sb. Click to download.) and the ability to send other collaborators notifications without posting comments.
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#15 2010-02-24 18:48:29
Re: About Collaborations
rocket101 wrote:
How about the ability to send projects to collaborators without uploading them to the scratch website (the collaborators might get a notification live "username has sent you the file "File name.sb. Click to download.) and the ability to send other collaborators notifications without posting comments.
Nice idea!
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#16 2010-02-24 18:56:03
Re: About Collaborations
rocket101 wrote:
How about the ability to send projects to collaborators without uploading them to the scratch website (the collaborators might get a notification like "username has sent you the file "File name.sb. Click to download.) and the ability to send other collaborators notifications without posting comments.
Like e-mail on scratch. That one will be the greatest. Then you can send passwords and things without other people knowing.
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#20 2010-02-24 19:38:36
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Re: About Collaborations
adriangl wrote:
Lucario621 wrote:
RHY3756547 wrote:
Indeed.Quite.
What about my idea? It is the same except you can say what each person did.
Nah. Too complicated :3
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#21 2010-02-24 19:39:45
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Re: About Collaborations
MathWizz wrote:
rocket101 wrote:
How about the ability to send projects to collaborators without uploading them to the scratch website (the collaborators might get a notification like "username has sent you the file "File name.sb. Click to download.) and the ability to send other collaborators notifications without posting comments.
Like e-mail on scratch. That one will be the greatest. Then you can send passwords and things without other people knowing.
The only problem, is that, that's very similar to private messaging, which the Scratch Team will NEVER add/do.
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#22 2010-02-24 22:09:21
Re: About Collaborations
I just had an idea:
Why not give a graph for the contributions?
Scratch would measure amount of blocks, sounds, and costumes added/ removed for each user, and produce a chart like this:
Outer ring: Programming
Inner ring: Essentials(sound, costumes, etc.)
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#23 2010-02-24 22:13:03
Re: About Collaborations
Greatdane wrote:
I just had an idea:
Why not give a graph for the contributions?
Scratch would measure amount of blocks, sounds, and costumes added/ removed for each user, and produce a chart like this:
Outer ring: Programming
Inner ring: Essentials(sound, costumes, etc.)
Interesting.
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