In the two weeks since I last responded to feedback about my manifesto, there have been several other interesting comments. Before I respond to those, I want to make a couple of announcements. First, this Thursday (April 29), I’m presenting the manifesto at SRI‘s Artificial Intelligence Center at 4pm in Menlo Park, California. The talk [...]
Aldo de Moor, professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, member of the Collaboration Collaboratory, author of several excellent papers on virtual communities, and overall good guy has joined the blogosphere. Welcome, Aldo! His latest piece explores the role of virtual communities in society as a whole and introduces some of his latest research. [...]
Last Friday was the last day of Chili PLoP. Ofra Homsky, Josh Rai, Linda Rising, Joe Yoder, and I met at our usual spot outside of the dining hall for our morning kickoff. We had two items on our agenda: workshop the patterns we had discussed the day before and that Josh and I had [...]
Last Thursday, my workshop met for a second day. Having agreed on a working definition for collaboration (see Collab:Collaboration), we started working on the Pattern Language. As was the case the previous day, I knew exactly what I wanted to accomplish, and I made that clear when we got started. What differed this day, however, [...]
Today, my workshop began in earnest. My goal for today was to collectively develop a working definition of collaboration, and I’m happy to say that we achieved that (see Collab:Collaboration). Tomorrow, we’ll start exploring patterns in earnest. (1BW) I have a great group of participants: (1BX) Ofra Homsky (1BY) Josh Rai [...]
Yesterday afternoon, I arrived in Phoenix, Arizona for Chili PLoP 2004. I hitched a ride with Ralph Johnson and Joe Yoder to Carefree, Arizona, and soon found myself at the Lutheran Retreat Center, where the conference is being held. (1BJ) The post-dinner agenda was to discuss the structure of the conference. Other than the [...]
Many thanks to everyone who’s emailed me or blogged about my manifesto. I’ve received great feedback — lots of kind words and constructive comments — both via email and the blogosphere. Because of the good folks at Slashdot, the piece was widely distributed. The last time something I wrote was Slashdotted, the responses were mostly [...]
I recently wrote an essay entitled, “A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools.” It outlines a vision for how our tools can and should become more interoperable. (1AQ) The article is available both on the web and in the May 2004 issue of Dr. Dobb’s Journal. I’ll also be presenting the paper at SRI‘s Artificial Intelligence [...]
