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From: cyberoid@milton.acs.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Xerox Rooms
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Date: 25 May 90 05:30:06 GMT
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Reply-To: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
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I came in in the middle of the conversation.

Can someone fill me in on the Xerox rooms?  I presume these
are experimental sites for testing various groupware concepts,
and perhaps one particular concept for future application...
but now that Silicon Valley is so far away, it's difficult to
test these preconceptions.

One issue raised by the adoption of the "group room" concept
is that it labels one place as collaborative, in effect 
reducing every other place to something less, individualis-
tic or whatever.  But perhaps we want to move the collective
space around -- first I have it, then you have it, then it
goes somewhere else (in limbo or to a third person).  Are
there experiments where the group space itself is trans-
ported, figuratively, from place to place?

(Hi, Dick, it was good to see you at Asilomar.  Not having
spoken with you at Hackers, I didn't appreciate your sense
of humor or your incisive critical faculties.  It was a
pleasure to see them in action!)