Initial Group Meeting, 2/16


Scotty

• social interaction software that support the best aspect of social interaction
• what is best social interaction?
• some theoretical underpinning of good social interaction? (optimal size for management groups)
• collaboration to fix our government? with concerned individuals to fix social problems? like the dean campaign? like moveon.org? like china how do you communicate across political system? collaboration in hostile environment?

Adam

• collaborative software; software design and development;
• from open source aspect: ties through project working on, the culture of open source; how leaders are chosen? what about accountability and responsibility? how people get involved; how collaborative system support that? what about sourceforge (cvs, forum, mailing list, mostlly project management aspects);
• collaboration taking place asynchrously for the most part;

David

• pervasive computing;

Phong

• collaboration across time and space;

Concensus focus: collaborative tools for political / social activism with focus on pervasive computing tools?