Hi! On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:48, Heather Leslie <heather.leslie at oceaninformatics.com> wrote: > If I have caused any confusion, I apologise. I'm just enthusiastic and > interested to further explore the potential (or not) offered by Google > Wave.
It is a very nice initiative Heather and there is no need to apologise, just a need to get the discussions out in open public searchable space (and that also goes for the currently unsearchable CKM). I believe that in a set of properly managed wave conversations it might be easier to follow the discussion flow, and it might be a less fragmented user experience than the current CKM is. If done right and when there are more wave providers than Google (since wave uses a truly open protocol) then we could at the same time get rid of the current CKM vendor lock-in and extension limitations (without creating another vendor lock in). > While these initial 'coordinating waves' are public, small groups may go off > and use a private Wave to work on a task or project - just like they do now > using email, skype or IM. Yes of course some conversations (or parts of conversations) will always be private since humans prefer to work that way sometimes. The problem is if things are inaccessible and unsearchable even when there is no intention to keep the discussion private. > The result should be identical - submitting the > draft archetype to CKM or contributing to the email lists or wiki. If wave-based tools become widespread and powerful enough to do openEHR review, voting etc., then I don't see CKM as a necessary step in the pipeline to finally submitting archetypes/templates to simple stable repositories. Every shift of tools along the way adds a potential user confusion. By the way, have you tried using mindmapping gadgets for openEHR related development in wave, I found an open source mindmapping gadget that even includes a voting mechanism and freemind-import facilities at: http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=64007 See also: http://www.brucecooper.net/2009/11/mind-map-gadget-for-google-wave.html And since the mindmapping gadget is open source it could easily be modified by any java/GWT developer to add features that you'd find useful for openEHR related use :-) Best regards, Erik Sundvall erik.sundvall at liu.se http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/ Tel: +46-13-286733 (Mail & tel. recently changed, so please update your contact lists.) P.s. To add voting to suitable items (e.g. corresponding to when you use voting in CKM) it seems like http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=23006 might be useful. I guess a proper discussion will often solve things without the need for voting though...
