Thanks Oren, that's an interesting usage scenario.
On Feb 9, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Oren Sreebny wrote:
Hi, Mimi (and all) -
It seems like these groups will stay pretty static. Although on a
semester basis, the people will change. Are there scenarios where
the people in the groups would change on a regular basis? Monthly,
Weekly, Daily?
For this specific use case (students in a course), the group
membership has a change curve that is slow at first, becomes very
rapid at the open of the registration period for the quarter,
settles down again for a while, then changes rapidly during the
first two weeks of the quarter (the add/drop/change period) and
then is mostly quiet until the end of the quarter.
FWIW, I've been noticing a trend lately that people tend to define
groups first as mailing lists (we use Mailman) and then later want
to use the same group for authorization purposes for other resources.
Makes complete sense. A mailing list is it's own social group with
it's own set of social dynamics that translate well to other
collaboration environments. I think we will want to support the same
kind of cross-silo experience for contacts that we've been advocating
for email, tasks and events.
Cheers -
- Oren
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