[Esip-earthcollaboratory] ESC Telecon Monday April 29

[Siri Jodha Khalsa]

This time conflicts with a regularly-scheduled team meeting here so I 
won't be able to make it.  This is no excuse for my lack of 
contributions to the candidate technology list so far.

For those of you not subscribed to the RDA-all list, I re-post these 
threads regarding tools for online collaboration:
http://forum.rd-alliance.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=23
http://lists.lists.rd-alliance.org/mailman/private/rda-all/2013-March/thread.html

The latter is accessible only to subscribers so I paste below a post 
summarizing the discussion up to that time (3/21):

To summarize in a non-technical language what has been discussed so far, 
it seems that we need:

- a space for collaboration on multiple projects (WGs and other 
sub-communities)
- notifications of events and activities in both push and pull forms 
(e.g., website announcements + newsletter or RSS)
- user profile system to keep track of members, conference attendees, 
teams, etc.
- sharing capabilities to send content wider (e.g., via Twitter, email, 
etc.)
- group communication tools (voice, video)
- flexible authentication that supports multiple roles (public, RDA 
member, WG member, etc.)

Forum is a nice tool, but it only serves the purposes of simple 
discussions, not distributed conversations and collaborations.

So far, the following options were mentioned:

Drupal OG http://drupal.org/project/og (supports group interactions via 
homepage + blogs, pages, etc., customizable)
Trac http://trac.edgewall.org/ (used for software development projects, 
customizable, with enhanced wiki and issue tracking system)
GitHub https://github.com/ (project management, simpler than Trac)
Redmine http://www.redmine.org/ (clean, simple wiki markup, trackers)
TWiki http://twiki.org/ (wiki, document management)
Liferay http://www.liferay.com/ (content management, hard initial 
set-up, but flexible user privileges)
HUBzero http://hubzero.org/ (content management system plus simulation 
tools)
Open Science Framework (supports large scientific collaborations, see 
example here http://openscienceframework.org/project/EZcUj/wiki/home)

It seems that almost any project or content management tool would 
support most of our needs but not all. So the choice goes back to 
usability and cost and resources for initial set up and maintenance.

sjs
On 4/26/13 1:30 PM, Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The Earth Science Collaboratory group is having their next telecon Monday April 29th at 12 EDT / 11 CDT / 10 MDT / 9 PDT.
>
> Telecon Info:
> To start or join the online portion of the meeting:
> https://esipfed.webex.com/mw0306ld/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=esipfed&service=1
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> To join the audio portion of the Conference meeting:
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>
> Agenda
> (1) 10 min: Lynnes + Ramachandran: ESC Reference Architecture status (new contributions, recap overall methodology)
> (2) 10 min: McWhirter: update on efforts to put RAMADDA
> (3) 5 min: Quick Look at http://www.marinexplore.com, a collaboration framework/site for oceanography data
> (4) 30 min: Plan for ESIP Summer Meeting:  session ideas?
>   ? Collaboration Technology Expo: review existing and developing technologies for collaboration
>   ? Reference Architecture working session
>   ? Other
> --
> Chris Lynnes
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-- 
Siri-Jodha Singh KHALSA, Ph.D., SMIEEE
National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449 Phone: 1-303-492-1445 GV: 1-303-736-9976
http://cires.colorado.edu/~khalsa