Date / Time: Conference Call Friday 2005-03-04 10:30 am ~ 12:00 noon EST (2KPK)
Call Details: (2KPL)
- Your entry will be toned-in; please announce yourself (2KPM)
- Attendees: (2KPN)
- Invited / Expecting: (2LQM)
- Regrets: (2LQR)
Agenda Ideas and Suggestions (2LQS)
- Newcomers' orientation for first 45 min. (2LQT)
- If you've already been introduced to the space, join us at 11:15 am when we discuss how to comment in the wiki, including creating links (in-wiki: page & paragraph, from forum archives, from document repository, for the web) (2LSS)
- people with specific tasks they need done on the CWE are encouraged to bring them to the second half of Friday's session -- we can discuss how best to accomplish these tasks. (2LQU)
Agenda & Proceedings (2LQV)
- 1. First 45 minutes - Introduction and New User Orientation - SusanTurnbull and PeterYim ("ppy") (2LQW)
- number one page for newcomers is the WikiHomePage for solid background (2LQX)
- number two page for newcomers: http://community.cim3.net/wiki/ (2LQY)
- CWE for CWE users and administrators - our place to add content and help us learn together faster (2LQZ)
- Suite of 4 major work spaces: (2LR0)
- DougEngelbart pioneered groupware, hypertext and many of the seminal ideas underpinning this space - beginning 30+ years ago (2LUD)
- a discussion forum (archived email forum) - to hold our conversations and discussions (virtually and asynchronously - not at the same time) (2LR1)
- a wiki - to help us collaboratively compose our work (2LR4)
- a file repository - to hold documents, work and resources that we can share, and (2LR7)
- like your file space, but remote. Requires one time set-up. Any content is accessible by a browser and the content can be referenced and you can point your audience directly to the link of interest (2LR8)
- File-Sharing Workspace / Document Repository: (2LUR)
- http://colab.cim3.net/file/resource/ (2LUS)
- http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/ (2LUT)
- http://colab.cim3.net/file/community/ (community member password required to access) (2LUU)
- http://colab.cim3.net/file/admin/ (administrator password required to access) (2LUV)
- To access the File Workspace - refer to: http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FileWorkspaceAccess (2LUW)
- in addition to linking to just the top of the page, linking is more granular (fine-grained accessibility, linking to any bullet point (2LUX)
- a portal - to provide a convenient single point of entry to the environment and the work of the community - public facing facet (2LRA)
- first place people go to: http://colab.cim3.net (2LRB)
- Why do we need this? (2LRC)
- Mission of Company: improve the effectiveness of distributed collaboration for people (2LRD)
- See DougEngelbart - his seminal work is an inspiration for this space (2LRE)
- it's all about getting work done effectively, especially when we are not in the same place (2LRF)
- it takes People, Process and Tools to achieve that (emphasis: People heads the list; and this is definitely not just about technology) (2LRG)
- It's a participatory workspace (2LRH)
- it's about: (2LRI)
- sharing (2LRJ)
- distributing the work (2LRK)
- getting things done without being in the same place, at the same time (2LRL)
- capturing the memory over the entire life-cycle of the community (2LRM)
- have minimal structure to do work; spur innovation and emergent behavior (2LRN)
- perhaps appears very basic, but that's key to its expressive power and flexibility (2LRO)
- example of a community to look at: http://ontolog.cim3.net (2LRP)
- testbed global community over the past 3 yr. - over 100 members from 13 countries - you're welcome to visit (join us too if you're interested in ontologies) (2LRQ)
- example of a community to look at: http://ontolog.cim3.net (2LRP)
- 2. a mini wiki-tutorial: (2LRR)
- The top two things that makes this wiki site different from an ordinary website are: (2LRS)
- write something onto your namesake page (2LRV)
- Text formatting rules can be found at the TextFormattingRules page. (2LUJ)
- take a look at the page index (via search) (2LRW)
- Site map index - place cursor in search box and hit enter (with a _blank_ search term) (2LRY)
- intro to PurpleNumbers (2LRX)
- Select "Recent Changes" at the top of each page to see which pages are changing (2LRZ)
- 3. How to make comments in the wiki, including creating links (in-wiki: page & paragraph, from forum archives, from document repository, for the web) (2LS2)
- How to use "in-line" method for succinct commenting within a small group (2LS3)
- edit by putting your suggested change in parentheses under the relevant section followed by your wiki name and date - e.g. (Suggest revising this definition...--SusanTurnbull / 2005.02.09 12:30pm EST) (2LS4)
- How to use "forum" method for commenting on the DataReferenceModel_09_2004 (2LS5)
- large document, large number of contributors representing all interested parties and anticipate contributions that may include large "amounts or chunks of pages") (2LS6)
- use purplenumber method to anchor your comments to the relevant paragraph (2LS7)
- Right click on the purplenumber following the section identified for comment, like the "2LS8" at the end of this line (2LS8)
- Select copy shortcut (2LS9)
- Paste into your email message with subject line - Comments (2LSA)
- Follow the examples of comments provided below; purplenumber is pasted in after ref: (for reference) (2LSB)
- Add your name, date and time in parentheses (2LSC)
- Send your message to the public site at: drm-public@colab.cim3.net (2LSD)
- How to use "in-line" method for succinct commenting within a small group (2LS3)
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- Example: Comments (2LSF)
- ref: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SandBox#nid7VT (2LSG)
- suggest changing from: "You can insert a graphic image too:" (2LSH)
- changing it to read "You can insert a graphic image (jpg, gif and png formats) too:" (2LSI)
- (--SusanTurnbull / 2005.02.09 12:30pm EST) (2LSJ)
- ref: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SandBox#nid7VW (2LSK)
- Comments: This is a very important section. (--SusanTurnbull / 2005.02.09 12:45pm EST) (2LSL)
Comments received from the public forum (drm-public@colab.cim3.net) will be added to the bottom of the relevant page with the corresponding "purple number" link. (2LSM)
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- 4. Observations and Insights from the Week - All (2LSO)
- example: sharing knowledge as a community - see file workspace access issue as posted to: http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FileWorkspaceAccessIssues#nidAC4 (2LU2)
- 5. Date/ Time of next call: Friday, March, 11, 2005, 10:30 am ~ 12:00 noon EST (2LSP)