Overview
• Facilitating Collaborations – tooling and
processes (inc. Video Conference Technologies)
• Mario Antonioletti (facilitator), Simon H (scribe)
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Mario Antonioletti, Tobias Schiebeck, Neil Chue Hong, Steve Lee, Tim Parkinson, David Wallom, Steve Wilson, Clare
Sloggett, Damian Brasher, Louise Price, Matthew Habgood, Weijian Fang, Andrew Price, Simon Mueller, Gillian Sinclair,
Gabor Terstyansky, Pascal Ekin, Aaron Turner
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Overview
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Talk from Tobias about PAG
Talk from Mario about tooling and processes
Talk from Damian about DIASER
Interspersed with chats about tools that people
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PAG (Portlet Access Grid)
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By Tobias Schiebeck (Uni. Manchester) (see: www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/PAG)
• PAG is video conferencing software (based on
Access Grid) that runs in a browser
• Goal was easy-to-use – people could drop into
an AG using their laptop
• Access Grid is difficult to install and configure
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PAG aims to solve these problems
• Also talked about “One VRE to join them all”
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Videoconferencing + document sharing
Will also ensure that PAG development continues
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OGSA-DAI experience
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By Mario Antonioletti (OMII-UK and OGSA-DAI)
Collaborative project: Code repository, website, branding
Lots of meetings, tried AG, but wasn’t reliable
Now use telecons
Mailing lists (must have searchable archives)
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Thinks that we need searchable, archived mailing lists at
OMII-UK)
• Worked well: IRC, messaging, meeting schedulers, wiki, TRAC
(issue tracking) and blog (dissemination)
• Not tried: forums, guestbooks, document annotator (wants one, but
doesn’t know of a good one), software doing surveys
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DIASER
• By Damian Brasher (OMII-UK)
• Uses: website, ,mailing lists, SVN and RSS (non-forceful dissemination –
people have to sign up)
• Skype and telecons for meetings
• Communication was vital through building the collaboration between
what was a private business and what became a collaboration with OMIIUK
• Intra- and inter-team comms now need to be built on
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NGS
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Gillian asked about
Twitter has generated a lot of traffic for them
Use mailing lists and AG
Have a Facebook site and Flikr site for photos
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Tools – what we use
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Glance:
Team viewer: cross-platform
CCC Confirm:
Google docs: (poss. Security problems, problems with simultaneous editing going
wrong, in general mixed reviews)
Oovoo:
IOCOM: (3rd-party AG system): very good, stable, commercial (“not cheap, but
worth the money”)
iChair: share docs on Mac
Evo: collaborations
Sakai: portal system - document sharing, wiki and other components
PHP website:
BSCW: repository
Plone
Second life
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Cool whizzy tools
• Twitter explosion: not sure how useful it is, but there’s
certainly a lot of it about…
• ooVoo: Skype-like, but easier to use than Evo
• Evo: good for video conferencing on a laptop – no real
experience of it beyond 4 participants (but not as good as PAG if
there are varied participants and if good network is available)
• OSS-Watch used live blogging with Twitter for feedback
• Markmail – searchable mail archives, give stats, etc.
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Conclusions
• Need to prepare a list of the tools that we’ve
described – people can describe their
experiences rather than provide
recommendations
• Small session on CRMs
• Could continue this session and collect the
above information
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