Overview

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Overview

• Facilitating Collaborations tooling and
  processes (inc. Video Conference Technologies)
• Mario Antonioletti (facilitator), Simon H
  (scribe)
• 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

• Talk from Tobias about PAG
• Talk from Mario about tooling and processes
• Talk from Damian about DIASER
• Interspersed with chats about tools that people
  use

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PAG (Portlet Access Grid)

• 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
• PAG aims to solve these problems
• Also talked about One VRE to join them all
• Videoconferencing document sharing
• Will also ensure that PAG development continues

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OGSA-DAI experience

• By Mario Antonioletti (OMII-UK and OGSA-DAI)
• Collaborative project Code repository, website,
  branding
• Lots of meetings, tried AG, but wasnt reliable
• Now use telecons
• Mailing lists (must have searchable archives)
• 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 doesnt 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 OMII-UK
• Intra- and inter-team comms now need to be built
  on

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NGS

• 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

• 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
  theres 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 weve
  described people can describe their experiences
  rather than provide recommendations
• Small session on CRMs
• Could continue this session and collect the above
  information