CSCW

CSCW stands for ‘Computer-Supported Collaborative Work, and is an acronym I’m familiar with from my Eurescom days – around ten years ago, in the pre-NetMeeting age, when we all thought people would really go for videoconferencing and application sharing tools. Since then, most people have eventually come around to JWZ‘s point of view.

• Standards in Video Conferencing, a nice overview.
• T.120

• Groove
• Spaces
• Colloquia
• Collanos
• Mindquarry

• SyncrhoEdit, a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor.
• SubEthaEdit
• DocSynch – IRC-based, which is enough to discard it for a lot of purposes
• MoonEdit (nice, but not Open Source)
• fuse (Python-based, seems stalled)
• CoEd (also stalled)
• GrewpEdit (Java-based)
• Gobby (GTK+, roughly cross-platform)
• TaskSketch – UML-oriented
• Coccinella – Jabber-based

• jybe, a cross-platform Firefox plugin that enables co-browsing, chat and presentation delivery. Not open, not secure, not interesting for real work, but nevertheless intriguing.