Check out Placeware - www.placeware.com - it combines a browser-based way of sharing a view of or even control of your desktop with others, with a phone line for the "chat" portion of your meeting. It's the best collaborative tool I've seen. Jon
-----Original Message----- From: Adrian Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Aids to distributed design Microsoft NetMeeting includes a shared whiteboard that certainly isn't a vector drawing tool, but has been useful to me in several distributed design sessions. Of course, I imagine it's only available for Windows... Adrian > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: April 23, 2002 8:18 AM > To: fop-dev > Subject: Aids to distributed design > [ SNIP ] > While I am not suggesting that anything much is likely to change in the > current situation, I think that one of the lessons here is the > importance of chat. This is particularly difficult with wide > geographical distribution, but I have done it on occasions with a group > spread from California through New York and London to Tokyo and > Brisbane. The major hurdle is finding any times when everyone can be > available. Even when not everyone could be there, logs of the > conversation could be very valuable. > > The other critical component is drawings. If I had the choice of > unlimited text or drawings with minimal annotations for communicating > design ideas, I would take the drawings every time. I'm not talking > here about formal techniques like UML, which are design documentation > tools, but the informal scribblings which are universal when programmers > - sorry, engineers - get together to talk design, and which are the > basic tool of all of my design thinking. > > What would be good is to combine the two. I.e., to chat on the one > hand, and on the other to be able to use a vector drawing tool with a > distributed canvas, which others could annotate or modify in real time, > during the chat session. Does anything like that exist? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
