Bug#295155: ITP: steam -- environment for cooperative knowledgemanagment

2005-02-13 Thread Alain Schroeder
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alain Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: steam
  Version : 1.5.12
  Upstream Author : open sTeam-Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.open-steam.org/
* License : GPL
  Description : environment for cooperative knowledgemanagment

sTeam provides a technical platform which allows groups of students, lecturers
and any other groups to construct and arrange their individual and cooperative
learning and working space.

sTeam consists of an object-oriented server connected to a database and Web,
Java and other (ftp, irc, ...) clients. The server is event-driven and manages
all user objects as well as the communication between the connected clients.

Different from most other cooperation tools is the novel possibility of
self-organisation and self-administration by the members within the virtual
environment.

In the core, the system provides the following self-administrating functions:

 * creation of rooms
 * granting of admission or access authorisations
 * administration and processing of objects or references to objects and
   documents located on other servers
 * carrying objects and passing them on to other users
 * use of rooms as cooperative media (e.g. Shared Whiteboard)

a more detailed description can be found on the website:
http://www.open-steam.org/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10marvin+skas-skas3-v7
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Bug#295155: ITP: steam -- environment for cooperative knowledgemanagment

2005-02-15 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Good idea.

> Different from most other cooperation tools is the novel possibility of
> self-organisation and self-administration by the members within the virtual
> environment.

Can server and client both be installed with minimal dependencies?  For
example, without xlibs?

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Bug#295155: ITP: steam -- environment for cooperative knowledgemanagment

2005-02-15 Thread Alain Schroeder
Am Dienstag, den 15.02.2005, 17:27 + schrieb Thaddeus H. Black:
> Good idea.
> 
> > Different from most other cooperation tools is the novel possibility of
> > self-organisation and self-administration by the members within the virtual
> > environment.
> 
> Can server and client both be installed with minimal dependencies?  For
> example, without xlibs?
> 
I am focused on the server at the moment, which offers a webinterface
(it has it's own webserver) as well as the possibility to connect with a
news, email, irc, ftp and jabber client. We need it, because we use it
as a backend in a PHP based website. 

There are clients for the Zaurus and Java available. There also seems to
be another client written in Pike, but I don't know the status.

Bye,
   Alain



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