text: ColabWiki: CommunityLearning CWE/ConferenceCalls 2007 02 07
  CommunityLearning_CWE Conference Call (3DAI)
  Wednesday 2007-02-07 11:00~1:00 PM EDT (3DAJ)
  Remote dial-in details: (3DAK)
  Call-in Number: 800-857-9370 (3ETW)
  PASSCODE: 25655 (3ETX)
  Note: Please send email RSVP to susan.turnbull at gsa.gov that includes correct spelling of your name for your namesake wiki page. (3DAN)
  Attendees: (3DAO)
  KentCraig (3FG2)
  FrankMcDonough (3FG3)
  SusanTurnbull (3FG4)
  PeterYim (3FG5)
  GaryZebrook (3FH6)
  NatalieDavidson (3FHM)
  NancyWolff (3FH7)
  SheilaCampbell (3FHO)
  PerryShelton (3FHP)
  MarthaDorris (3FGQ)
  Expecting: (3DAP)
  (3FHQ)
  (3GQA)
  DarleneMeskell (3FGS)
  DovLevy (3FGB)
  Agenda & Proceedings (3DAQ)
  1. Introduction to the Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) and How it is used by GSA's Intergovernmental Solutions Division (ISD) to support communities - SusanTurnbull and PeterYim (3DAR)
  2. Why do we need this? What is the CWE focus? (3DAS)
  3. A mini wiki-tutorial (3DAT)
  4. Posting documents to the File Repository - setting up WebDAV Access (3DAU)
  5. Q&A and Discussion (3DAV)
  6. Observations, Insights & advanced features (3DAW)
  7. Additional Resources (3DAX)
  1. Introduction to the Collaborative Work Environment and How it is used by GSA's Intergovernmental Solutions Division (ISD) to support communities - SusanTurnbull and PeterYim (3DAY)
  Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) is a suite of 4 work spaces for the trusted community: portal, wiki, discussion forum and file repository (3DAZ)
  number one page for newcomers is the WikiHomePage for solid background (3DB0)
  number two page for newcomers: http://community.cim3.net/wiki/ (3DB1)
  This is the CWE for CWE users and administrators - our place to add content and help us learn together faster (3DB2)
  Example: Extended orientation resource available at community site above (3DB3)
  Purpose: The Intergovernmental Solutions Division (ISD) at GSA (http://www.gsa.gov/collaborate) provides an "incubator" organizing process and conducive learning environment for intergovernmental communities. How can barriers associated with distance and differences be overcome in order to build the trust needed for credible commitments and joint actions? (3DB4)
  New User Orientation to the four work spaces of the Collaborative Work Environment: (3DB5)
  a portal - to provide a convenient single point of entry to the environment and the work of the community - public facing facet (3DB6)
  first place people go to: http://colab.cim3.net (3DB7)
  a wiki - to help us collaboratively compose our work (3DB8)
  like a web page; read and write web; one person at a time takes notes (3DB9)
  platform independent and people can be located anywhere in the world (3DBA)
  example - WikiHomePage (http://colab.cim3.net/wiki/), the first link off the portal, is the best places for newcomers (3DBB)
  example - "very quick" and easy posting of presentations from yesterday's Chief Architects Forum session (3DBC)
  example - ExpeditionWorkshop - GSA's ISD co-sponsors these workshops with CIO Council's Emerging Technology Subcommittee, Best Practices Committee and the Social, Economic and Workplace Implications of Technology Coordinating Group (3DBD)
  At the workshops, the wiki helps conference organizers distribute the workload as the agenda is developed - See Jan. 23 workshop agenda (3DBE)
  a file repository - to hold documents, work and resources that we can share, and (3DBF)
  like your file space, but remote. Requires one time set-up. Any content is accessible by a browser and the content can be referenced and you can point your audience directly to the link of interest (3DBG)
  File-Sharing Workspace / Document Repository: (3DBH)
  http://colab.cim3.net/file/resource/ (3DBI)
  http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/ (3DBJ)
  http://colab.cim3.net/file/community/ (community member password required to access) (3DBK)
  http://colab.cim3.net/file/admin/ (administrator password required to access) (3DBL)
  To access the File Workspace - refer to: http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FileWorkspaceAccess (3DBM)
  For example, at the Collaborative Expedition Workshops, presenters can post their own presentations to the file repository. (3DBN)
  Remote workshop participants (US and beyond) can view and give presentations. (3DBO)
  Anyone can also download the archived presentations. (3DBP)
  Finding current and archived presentations is easy using the Google search bar at the CWE main page: http://colab.cim3.net. (3DBQ)
  a discussion forum (archived email forum) - to hold our conversations and discussions (virtually and asynchronously - not at the same time) (3DBR)
  enables you to focus on content of conversation and not administration (3DBS)
  every message becomes an html page that can be sorted by date or conversation thread (linked by replying to an earlier message) (3DBT)
  see Forum archives at - http://colab.cim3.net/forum/ (3DBU)
  example from the Geospatial Community of Practice (CoP). The Geospatial CoP and other CoPs use Discussion Forums to automatically archive all member conversations in a manner that is searchable by date, thread, and text. (3DBV)
  How to Subscribe to the GeoSpatial Community of Practice Discussion Forum (3DBW)
  In addition, (3DBX)
  Full-text Search capability is available to all content within the collaborative work environment, and (3DBY)
  rather than just being able to point to the top of a page, Fine-Grained Accessibility through the use of PurpleNumbers is featured, allowing users to link to a particular paragraph or bullet point in a document. (3DBZ)
  2. Why do we need this? What is the CWE focus? (3DC0)
  Mission of Intergovernmental Solutions Division: improve the delivery of government services to citizens by fostering a collaborative environment among federal, state, local and foreign governments and intergovernmental organizations. (3DC1)
  With the CWE we help communities build trust toward common understanding and joint action. This in turn, leads to successful completion of distributed work in an open and transparent manner: Data Reference Model - wikipedia, - Data Reference Model Public Forum - our COLAB wiki, Geospatial Profile (3DC2)
  See: Wikis Changing Culture of Information Sharing at the CIA (3DC3)
  See: Spy agencies adapt social software, federated search tools (3DC4)
  See: Intelligence fixes floated at conference (3DC5)
  Mission of CIM3: improve the effectiveness of distributed collaboration for people (3DC6)
  Ref: DougEngelbart - his seminal work is an inspiration for this space - particularly, his concept on OHS (OpenHyperdocumentSystem) and DKR (DynamicKnowledgeRepository) (3DC7)
  DougEngelbart invented the mouse and pioneered personal computing, hypertext, network computing, groupware, and many of his seminal ideas underpinning this collaborative community workspace - beginning ~40 years ago (3DC8)
  see also: "First time access, Additional Background and Resources about Collaborative Work Environments" (3DC9)
  Tools segmentation: (3DCA)
  personal productivity vs. group productivity (3DCB)
  transaction systems vs. groupware (3DCC)
  thick client vs. thin client ('utility' software) (3DCD)
  Community segmentation: (attributed to Soren Kaplan of iCohere) (3DCE)
  Affinity networks (3DCF)
  Learning communities (3DCG)
  Communities of Practice (see: CommunitiesofPractice) (3DCH)
  Project teams (3DCI)
  3 modes of the CIM3 hosted CWE sites: 'open', 'community only' & 'secured' (3DCJ)
  it's NOT about technology, it's all about getting work done effectively, especially when we are not in the same place (3DCK)
  it takes People, Process and Tools to achieve that (emphasis: People heads the list; and this is definitely not just about technology) (3DCL)
  To be able to wrap the right processes around tools with the right people in place to implement (3DCM)
  It's a participatory workspace (3DCN)
  it's about: (3DCO)
  sharing (3DCP)
  distributing the work (3DCQ)
  getting things done without being in the same place, at the same time (3DCR)
  capturing the memory and knowledge over the entire life-cycle of the community (3DCS)
  have minimal structure to do work; spur innovation and emergent behavior (3DCT)
  perhaps appears very basic, but that's key to its expressive power and flexibility (3DCU)
  example of a community to look at: http://ontolog.cim3.net (3DCV)
  testbed global community, in operation for over 4 yr., ~270 members from more than 20 countries - you're welcome to visit (join us too if you're interested in ontologies) (3DCW)
  3. a mini wiki-tutorial: (3DCX)
  The top four things that make this wiki site different from an ordinary website are: (3DCY)
  (1) anyone who can read from the site, can also write to the site (so, it is a read-and-write web, not just read-only) (3DCZ)
  (2) you get automatic hyperlinking, through the use of the WikiWord. (3DD0)
  (3) the version history of any page is available, allowing people to see how the content has evolved, and to roll back to an earlier version with a few mouse clicks. (3DD1)
  (4) wiki's have traditionally been associated with 'openness' -- open content, open technology, open knowledge ... where community collaboration has been regarded as a core value. (3DD2)
  Open Technology Development Report - DoD (3DD3)
  "create account" / "login" (near upper-right corner of the page, right below the logo/icon, any page.) (3DD4)
  suggested using your name in WikiWord format as your UserName, and use some password (to avoid being spoofed too easily) (3DD5)
  pick a page (your namesake page or SandBox would be a good start) and click on "Edit text of this page" (near the lower-left corner of the page, any page.) (3DD6)
  write something onto your namesake page (3DD7)
  click "save" or "preview" - Preview enables you to see what your page will look like on the web after saving - while simultaneously showing the edit box. Its helpful to see how the text formatting rules are rendered on the web by looking at both windows. (3DD8)
  Summary box - annotates the nature of the change you made (3DD9)
  Text formatting rules can be found at the TextFormattingRules page. (3DDA)
  take a look at the page index (3DDB)
  Site map index - click on the "Page Index" at the top (upper left, next to RecentChanges") of each page. (3DDC)
  Select "Recent Changes" at the top of each page to see which pages are changing (3DDD)
  also, take a look at "View other revisions" at the bottom left (3DDE)
  intro to PurpleNumbers (3DDF)
  Best guide to learn and use the space: WikiHomePage, RecentChanges, Page Index and http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CweUser (3DDG)
  Example: how to make comments in the wiki, including creating links (in-wiki: page & paragraph, from forum archives, from document repository, for the web) (3DDH)
  How to use "discussion forum" method for commenting (3DDI)
  used for large document, large number of contributors representing all interested parties and anticipate contributions that may include large "amounts or chunks of pages") (3DDJ)
  See example of comments to the Data Reference Model v1.0 (3DDK)
  See instructions and example at the How to Comment in the GeoSpatial Community of Practice (3DDL)
  How to use "in-line" method for commenting (3DDM)
  used to put annotated edits with name and date directly into the wiki document that is being developed within a small group (3DDN)
  edit by putting your suggested change in parentheses under the relevant section followed by your wiki name and date - e.g. (Suggest revising this definition...--SusanTurnbull / 2005.02.09 12:30pm EST) (3DDO)
  4. Posting documents to the File Repository - setting up WebDAV Access (3DDP)
  File-Sharing Workspace / Document Repository: (3DDQ)
  http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/ (3DDR)
  See - http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/Expedition_Workshop/ (3DDS)
  To access the File Workspace - refer to: http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FileWorkspaceAccess Download (Browser) -vs- Upload (WebDAV) URL Mapping (3DDT)
  example - setting up access from Windows XP - http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FileWorkspaceAccess#nidAHZ (3DDU)
  For the demo of posting documents, please go to the URL below for VNC (shared display) support: (3DDV)
  URL = http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/ (3DDW)
  Password = "colab" (view-only) (3DDX)
  example: posting something to - http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/ (3DDY)
  5. Q & A and Discussion. (3DDZ)
  6. Observations, Insights & advanced features (3DE0)
  the search box at http://colab.cim3.net/ (3DE1)
  using InterMap (3DE2)
  (Beta feature) RSS support (3DE3)
  (Alpha feature) Transclusions - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SandBox#nid8A (3DE4)
  example: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RelevantEventsOfInterest2007 (3DE5)
  (Alpha feature) Purple numbers on the fly - purpleslurple - see: (3DE6)
  example - http://ps1.cim3.net/ps.php?theurl=http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webont-req-20040210/#purp290 (3DE7)
  try it: http://ps1.cim3.net/ (3DE8)
  Synchronous collaboration support - (optional) shared-screen VNC service (3DE9)
  allows sharing of slide presentations, demonstrations, shared remote applications, ... (3DEA)
  try this (if you are not behind a corporate firewall): http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/ pw="colab" (3DEB)
  Removing PurpleNumbers when transferring contents of an entire page over (e.g. as a template) - see: http://community.cim3.net/file/resource/tool_win2kxp/no-purple/ (3FO6)
  7. Additional Resources (3DEC)
  March workshop on Communities of Interest (CoI) using light-weight collaboration tools that may be of interest - SusanTurnbull (3DED)
  Resources - Tsunami global volunteers response (one of the first mashups? - wiki, blog, discussion group, flickr), flu wiki, and smog blogger resources- SusanTurnbull (3DEE)
  CoI - Community of Interest organizing process, including formal guidance from DoD - SusanTurnbull (3DEF)
  July 18 workshop on Open Collaboration: Networking Wiki Information Technology - SusanTurnbull (3DEG)