new sketches for Converso

I met (via gchat on account of the weather) with my thesis advisor Mike Edwards today to discuss my new development plan.  I'm still trying to nail down exactly the functionality I want so Mike suggested I create some more rough to lay it all out.  Here they are:  

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 It sounds like the chat application might be easier to build if its a plugin inside of buddypress.  I was also thinking that a very low-tech solution might be a simple php application that gives you the skype names of people based on your preferences.  Then the user would just add those names to their current buddy list.  One downside to this though is that if you didn't want to give out your personal skype account you'd have to create a whole other account to use for Converso.  I'm hoping that this week I'll be able to narrow my options as well as get the paper prototyping done.