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Collaboration tools at Newcastle
  • Caleb Racey
  • Caleb.Racey_at_ncl.ac.uk

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Collaboration past/present practices
  • Email As
  • Communication platform
  • Distributed File system
  • Versioning repository
  • Calendaring suite (without a calendar)
  • Task manager
  • Backup/archive system
  • Maybe a website
  • failed CMS experiment
  • failed forum experiment

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Past/present problems
  • Email is source of all evil
  • Massively over utilized
  • Co-opted (corrupted) to many causes
  • The 100meg file problem
  • The file type problem I want my .exe
  • No identity assurance
  • Spam
  • Phishing
  • More spam
  • False positives
  • Websites Hard to write
  • Out of date
  • Abandoned
  • One way communication

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Past/present Positives
  • Email gets job done
  • Very low barrier to participation
  • setup get address
  • Usability is good
  • Websites
  • Visible
  • Searchable
  • Durable
  • Enormous demand for collaborative tools
  • Low expectation easy to exceed

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What we use/want
  • What we presently use
  • Blogs
  • Mailing lists
  • Wikis
  • What we want
  • Calendaring (CalDAV??)
  • WebDAV community file spaces
  • Mod_dav_svn?
  • Suites Sakai, Mindquarry?
  • IM??

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Group Blogs
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Sympa mailings list
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Mediawiki
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Does it work?
  • Benefits
  • Simple User interface
  • Good technology
  • versioning, recent changes, notification
  • Trendy
  • Understandable Federatability
  • Easy joining process
  • Problems
  • Interface not simple enough
  • Group info locked away
  • Yet more email

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What we need
  • Approach
  • Generic platform
  • Loosely coupled collaborative tools
  • Allow behaviour to emerge
  • Group management
  • Reusable across platform
  • Scalable (not .htaccess)
  • Federation aware
  • Group Management User interface
  • Self service
  • By invite
  • By manager with delegation

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What we are doing
  • Looking at Grouper to admin collaborative suite
  • Gfivo project
  • Grouper to support Federated Identity for
    Virtual Organizations
  • JISC funded 2 years
  • National demonstrator
  • Outputs free to HE FE
  • http//gfivo.ncl.ac.uk

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Questions
  • Can we wean people off email?
  • Are they aware of their own problems?
  • Do they care about real identity?
  • Is loose coupling something users get?
  • Do people only care about access control when it
    bites them?
  • Good Collaboration is emergent from behavior
  • do the tools really matter?
  • Is it just attitude that counts?
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