Collaboration Servers!

[Jeffrey Ollie]

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.

Jeff