I personally didn’t vote for any
option except for “D” because none of the other solutions really
solve anything that is lacking today.
We already have collaboration today via
the mailing lists. Yes, they are not in a “Forum” layout, but
I actually prefer mail threads better – they are searchable (because of
my mail client).
Angel already exists, and many people use
it, so that is nothing new.
What is missing for me, is :
(a) Document Collaboration Tools – e.g. I work on lots of
documents with other departments. Right now (since the Google rule cam
into effect), I have to email the document to 10 people, each of those 10
people make changes to the document, then I have to aggregate those changes and
form a single clean document, and send it back out to everybody for round 2 of
changes. This is extremely cumbersome without an automated tool.
The way Google and Buzzword worked was people would make the changes to a
single document, and those changes would be versioned and everybody would have
the latest copy in real-time.
(b) Instant Messaging – This would be useful if we were ALL on a
common platform. I realize that IRC has been setup for some people in
ACNS, but that is a form of active communication. IM is a form of passive
communication, where I don’t have to be watching the screen to get a
message. This is akin to having a phone on the desk (which is the most
useful for me).
-Nick Kwiatkowski
MSU Telecom Systems
From: MSU Network
Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Troy Murray
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007
2:07 PM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] Collaboration
Option "D" - Other
This morning at the MSU IT Exchange we were shown three collaboration
tools, vBulletin, SWAP and Angel. During the voting we were asked which
one we'd choose, along with an option "D - Other". As I
remember, there were a number of votes for "D - Other", but when it
was opened up to suggestions there was only one, PHPvB I believe.
This lead me to wonder why "D - Other" was voted so much; was
it because what was seen in the three solutions wasn't liked, because it was
felt there is a better solution but not sure what it is or felt there is a
better solution but were hesitant to mention it during the session?
Just curious what your thoughts were.
--
Troy
Developer
Biomedical Research and
100 Conrad Hall
Phone: 517-432-4248
Fax: 517-353-9420
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