Friday 2006-04-28 10:30~12:00 pm EST (33QK)
- Remote dial-in details: (33QL)
- Agenda ideas: (participants: please add your ideas below) (33QP)
Agenda & Proceedings (33QT)
- 1. Introduction and New User Orientation - SusanTurnbull and PeterYim (33R0)
- number one page for newcomers is the WikiHomePage for solid background (33R1)
- number two page for newcomers: http://community.cim3.net/wiki/ (33R2)
- DougEngelbart pioneered groupware, hypertext and many of the seminal ideas underpinning this space - beginning ~40 years ago (33R5)
- our Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) is a suite of 4 work spaces for the trusted community: (33R6)
- a portal - to provide a convenient single point of entry to the environment and the work of the community - public facing facet (33R7)
- a discussion forum (archived email forum) - to hold our conversations and discussions (virtually and asynchronously - not at the same time) (33RA)
- enables you to focus on content of conversation and not administration (33RB)
- every message becomes an html page that can be sorted by date or conversation thread (linked by replying to an earlier message) (33RC)
- a wiki - to help us collaboratively compose our work (33RD)
- like a web page; read and write web; one person at a time takes notes (33RE)
- platform independent and people can be located anywhere in the world (33RF)
- a file repository - to hold documents, work and resources that we can share, and (33RG)
- 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 (33RH)
- File-Sharing Workspace / Document Repository: (33RI)
- in addition to linking to just the top of the page, linking is more granular -- fine-grained accessibility, linking to any paragraph or bullet point (33RO)
- 2. Why do we need this? (33RP)
- Mission of CIM3: improve the effectiveness of distributed collaboration for people (33RQ)
- Ref: DougEngelbart - his seminal work is an inspiration for this space - particularly, his concept on OHS (OpenHyperdocumentSystem) and DKR (DynamicKnowledgeRepository) (33RR)
- Tools segmentation: (33RT)
- personal productivity vs. group productivity (33RU)
- transaction systems vs. groupware (33RV)
- thick client vs. thin client ('utility' software) (33RW)
- Community segmentation: (33RX)
- 3 modes of the CIM3 hosted CWE sites: 'open', 'community only' & 'secured' (33S2)
- it's NOT about technology, it's all about getting work done effectively, especially when we are not in the same place (33S3)
- it takes People, Process and Tools to achieve that (emphasis: People heads the list; and this is definitely not just about technology) (33S4)
- To be able to wrap the right processes around tools with the right people in place to implement (33S5)
- It's a participatory workspace (33S6)
- it's about: (33S7)
- sharing (33S8)
- distributing the work (33S9)
- getting things done without being in the same place, at the same time (33SA)
- capturing the memory and knowledge over the entire life-cycle of the community (33SB)
- have minimal structure to do work; spur innovation and emergent behavior (33SC)
- perhaps appears very basic, but that's key to its expressive power and flexibility (33SD)
- example of a community to look at: http://ontolog.cim3.net (33SE)
- testbed global community over the past 4 yr. - over 160 members from 15 countries - you're welcome to visit (join us too if you're interested in ontologies) (33SF)
- 3. a mini wiki-tutorial: (33SG)
- The top four things that make this wiki site different from an ordinary website are: (33SH)
- (1) anyone who can read from the site, can also write to the site (so, it is a read-and-write web, not just read-only) (33SI)
- (2) you get automatic hyperlinking, through the use of the WikiWord. (33SJ)
- (3) the version history of any page is available, allowing people to see how the content has evolved, and to roll back to an earlier version with a few mouse clicks. (33SK)
- (4) wiki's have traditionally been associated with 'openness' -- open content, open technology, open knowledge ... where community collaboration has been regarded as a core value. (33TM)
- "create account" / "login" (near upper-right corner of the page, right below the logo/icon, any page.) (33SL)
- suggested using your name in WikiWord format as your UserName, and use some password (to avoid being spoofed too easily) (33SM)
- pick a page (your namesake page or SandBox would be a good start) and click on "Edit text of this page" (near the lower-left corner of the page, any page.) (33SN)
- write something onto your namesake page (33SO)
- click "save" or "preview" - Preview enables you to see what your page will look like on the web after saving - while simultaneously showing the edit box. Its helpful to see how the text formatting rules are rendered on the web by looking at both windows. (33SP)
- Summary box - annotates the nature of the change you made (33SQ)
- Text formatting rules can be found at the TextFormattingRules page. (33SR)
- take a look at the page index (33SS)
- Site map index - click on the "Page Index" at the top (upper left, next to RecentChanges") of each page. (33ST)
- Select "Recent Changes" at the top of each page to see which pages are changing (33SU)
- also, take a look at "View other revisions" at the bottom left (33SV)
- intro to PurpleNumbers (33SW)
- 4. How to make comments in the wiki, including creating links (in-wiki: page & paragraph, from forum archives, from document repository, for the web) (33SX)
- How to use "discussion forum" method for commenting (33SY)
- 5. Observations, Insights & advanced features (33T2)
- 6. Q & A and Discussion. (33TE)
