I agree with Brian's take on the scene.
This is exactly the premise for which NCSA ACCESS, and NCSA TRECC
were designed for. Physical spaces designed specifically to make use
of advanced collaborative environments and enhance cyber-community.
Has anyone checked out VSee?
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At 04:03 PM 1/4/2007, Brian Corrie wrote:
>My personal opinion is that we are building a collaboration infrastructure
>here, not an AccessGrid infrastructure. The main reason for this position
>is that I don't believe you can force the tools on the user. Thus we build
>**collaboration rooms** that are AccessGrid capable (that is, they support
>multiple cameras, multiple screens, good quality audio, etc.) but they
>support other software/hardware platforms as well. Many (most) of our
>rooms can be multi purposed to do AG, H323, VRVS, Skype, iChat, etc so
>that the appropriate tools are available to the users. It is next to
>impossible to force a collaboration tool on a community, especially when
>they are already using something else.
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