Re: way to grahpically interact; for ui discussion

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Any one know of good free shared interaction "stuff"?  I'd like to see 
> an open meeting on thursday mornings (TO time) where people can 
> discuss UI aspects of frysk.  This means looking at screen shots, and 
> even read-only access to a desktop.  Unfortunatly I can't find any 
> useful free technology to facilitate this.
>
> The problem is that all the s/w i know of requires holes to be punched 
> into a firewall.  Does any one know of something suitable for properly 
> open colab?

Sami and I used to use Coccinella which runs over the jabber network to 
provide a virtual white-board. It had some issues, but it seemed to work 
ok between two people. No idea if that would scale to team level 
interaction. There seems to be buckets of white-board applets, but they 
require a server to host. The link for Coccinella is at:

http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/


On the whole it seems that this area is under-served with utilities.

Regards

Phil