Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ames!xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!feit From: feit@cs.odu.edu (Mark "The Nose Knows" Feit) Newsgroups: comp.groupware Subject: Speaking Up (Was Re: 2 comments) Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 91 18:28:53 GMT References: <20964@crg5.UUCP> <161@intrbas.UUCP> <1991Jan24.193942.8468@siia.mv.com> Sender: usenet@cs.odu.edu (Usenet News Poster) Organization: The Von Neumann Hospital for Unix Burnouts Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: drd@siia.mv.com's message of 24 Jan 91 19:39:42 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: aelle.cs.odu.edu For about the last year or so, I've been developing a package for sharing X clients among systems connected over the Internet, and some of the same problems regarding person-to-person communications came up. What I think is being missed here is that these type of tools are not intended to completely handle _all_ communications among the participants. The package I developed provides communications for the tools only, but not the participants. That's to be taken care of elsewhere. The test bed for this mess is supposed to be a network of conference rooms in North Carolina equipped with full video teleconferencing (the conventional variety, no computers involved) and a ring of T1 lines connecting the workstations, of which there is one per room. That type of setup provides a good environment for collaboration. It's going to be a long time before we can put _everything_ on the machines, since our networks don't have the bandwidth just yet. Soon enough, though. -- - Mark ................................. ................................. : Mark A. Feit : Internet: feit@cs.odu.edu : : ODU Computer Science - BSCS '90 : UUCP: aplcen!wb3ffv!nose!mark : : - (Fill in an employer here.) - : "Beat Iraq: SLAM SADDAM" : ................................. ................................. "Programming is 10% science, 25% ingenuity and 65% getting the ingenuity to work with the science."