Collaboration Requirements

[Gary C Martin]

On 31 Jul 2008, at 01:07, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 05:21:34PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
>> It was well promoted and teachers on the "sur" list have
>> repeatedly asked for a definition of how to use it successfully.
>
> Insofar as we make no use of our own collaborative technology as  
> part of
> our daily learning and teaching, we're not able to use it successfully
> ourselves.

I've often wondered why we (royal we) don't have a scheduled meeting  
where the communication is specifically attempted using Sugar only  
available tools (XO HW, emulation or jhbuild on whatever platforms are  
currently viable). With the main action being based in Chat, with a  
shared Write session for meeting minutes; Xo IRC works well for me  
(most reliable and open form of live collaboration on the XO so far)  
and could be the fallback when other things implode. It's all about  
developers being prepared to eat their own... so to speak, and it  
would send out the right signals about the expected quality and  
robustness of solutions.

I was pretty disappointed to see gobby seemingly adopted (not anything  
is wrong with gobby), it just clearly shouts, "we don't trust our own  
software to be reliable enough to use for a 1hr meeting".

It might actually help making 'itches to scratch'.

--Gary