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8 Undesrtanding the People Nearby feature.
10 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-12" status="draft"/>
11 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-14" status="review"/>
12 <credit type="author">
13 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
14 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
18 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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23 <title>What is People Nearby?</title>
26 <cite date="2009-09-09">Shaun McCance</cite>
27 <p>I'd like to see this played up a bit more.</p>
31 The People Nearby service is a serverless communication service:
32 you do not need to connect and authenticate to a central server in
36 This kind of serverless messaging system is restricted to a local area
37 network and an active Internet connection is not necessary.
40 The people that use this service inside the same local area network
41 will be auto-discovered, and it will be possible to send them messages
42 and files as with other services.
45 All the modern local area networks should be able to support this kind