On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Ricardo Correa <r.corre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Yen-Ju Chen <yjch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi! > >> >> I have 5 Google Wave Invitation to give away. I guess it might be >> useful for Etoile in some ways, say writing documentation >> collaboratively ? Anyway, I just try to make a very small contribution >> after a long absence. Maybe most people here have ones already. Core >> team member first. Please sent request to my email address: yjchenx at >> gmail. >> > > I thought about doing the same for a project of mine but it seems Wave > is not that efficient for this. There's no way to define a hierarchy > of content (pretty much just paragraph headings) nor styles for that > matter so all your messages would pretty much be just some sort of > RTF. Also when more than 1 person has edited more than one blip > (message) there doesn't seem to be a way to know who exactly did what > (may or not be so important).
I agree with you that Google Wave at current status may not be good enough for collaborative editing. But situation might improve since it is what it is designed to do. Another use of Google Wave is for discussion. An parallel example is that I stop using instant messenger (IM) and move chatting onto plurk. For IM, every party has to be online at the same time. For Plurk, you can leave one message and people can reply whenever they are online and so on. It's more convenient during working hours and across time zones. And topics can be separated along with time axis. So discussion of different topics won't be mixed together. Anyway, I am not promoting the use of Google Wave. Just try to give away my invitation for possibly better use. If things don't break, don't fix it. But when something breaks, Google Wave may be an alternative. :D Yen-Ju > > I thought about creating a gadget to overcome these defficiencies (at > least for me they are) but they [gadgets] can't modify the blip's > content, and a robot seems to only be able to modify what's in a blip > non-interactively (sort of a macro expander in this case) so I'd have > to create some sort of markup language and then have the robot create > the output in some way, but that's not ideal for me. > > Have you thought about the process for collaboratively editing > documentation using Wave?. > > I have some invites as well BTW. > >> Have fun~ >> > > You too! > >> -- >> Yen-Ju Chen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Etoile-dev mailing list >> Etoile-dev@gna.org >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev >> > > Ricardo Correa > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-dev mailing list > Etoile-dev@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev > -- Yen-Ju Chen Sent from 東區, 新竹市, 台湾 _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list Etoile-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
