There is another system with a name reminding of nosedrops: drupal
http://drupal.org/about
Has anyone tried this system? I think these systems may make sense if
you and 50 other people are working on a single paper, like the LHC
collaborations.
Alexander Hellemans
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:32 +0000, "Andy Lloyd" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Quite possibly, although I don't think the perfect format has been found
> quite yet - so far Google Wave seems to have been lots of "erm, what
> shall we use this for" conversations (but it is still officially a
> "preview", so it may evolve further). Gillian Pepper's "Science and
> Society" group on Ning (http://scienceandsociety.ning.com/) might also be
> "it", but only if more people sign up and start using it. Similarly the
> OU's Isotope site (http://isotope.open.ac.uk/). However, I suspect for
> the time being the slightly messy mix of email (on lists like this and
> BIG-chat etc), a sprinkling of websites and occasional events in the real
> world (with different combinations of people each time) will have to
> suffice.
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> Andy
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> From: Michael Kenward [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 23 February 2010 14:25
> Subject: Re: Joined-up working and information sharing
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> Is there a case for the use of "new media" and things like Google Wave? A
> bolthole where people can file away links, documents and other stuff?
>
> https://wave.google.com/wave/
>
> "Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes
> real-time interactions more seamless -- in one place, you can communicate
> and collaborate using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and
> more."
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> "A wave is a conversation with multiple participants -- participants are
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andy Lloyd
> Sent: 23 February 2010 12:22
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Joined-up working and information sharing
>
> I think the current exercise in joining-up (to whatever extent) the wide
> range of STEM communication/engagement activity is to be welcomed, and I
> hope we can all get through the rounds of "what about us" that such
> activities naturally uncover.
>
> In that spirit (!) the Big Bang Fair is, I'm told, a fantastic example of
> getting lots of different people together doing similar work in one
> place.
> Except of course that quite a lot of us around the country can't - not
> out
> of some latent regional prejudice but because it's at the start of
> National
> Science & Engineering Week so we're all a bit busy already. So, can I
> ask
> anyone who does go along to tell the rest of us a couple of things? What
> impression do you get from the event of the range of activity available
> in
> the UK? Do you think it's representative (and is that important anyway)?
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> Cheers
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