Collaboration Servers!

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Thu Jan 31 19:02:22 UTC 2008


On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:

> On 1/31/08, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, John Poelstra wrote:
> >
> > > Mike McGrath said the following on 01/30/2008 01:15 PM Pacific Time:
> > > > collab1.fedoraproject.org is up and running.  Yahoo!  So whats missing?
> > > > Well, it doesn't actually do anything yet.  Plans for it include
> > > >
> > > > 1) gobby (its AMAZING)
> > > > 2) pastebin or something like it (also amazing)
> > > > 3) mailman.
> > > >
> > >
> > > 4) vnc ?
> > >
> > > Is there any possibility of application (doesn't have to be vnc) whereby
> > > multiple people could view the same desktop?
> > >
> > > This would be very help for training and collaboration.
> >
> > This is something I'd talked to John about maybe a month or two back and
> > came up blank.  Aside from screen casting (which AFAIK, isn't live, only
> > recorded and played back) I don't know of anything like this aside from
> > VNC and it seems ill-suited to this job over a WAN link.  Anyone have any
> > experience with something that does just that?
>
> Spoleeba pointed out on IRC a couple of days ago that DimDim has an
> open source version, however the source code is pretty messy and it
> could take some time to get it packaged up for Fedora.

I looked at dimdim briefly, does their OSS version have a license we can
use in Fedora?

	-Mike




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