Remote Collaboration¶

How to get 2 or more people collaborating remotely.

Reasons:

• Micro Ruby Brigade Meetings
• Presentations
• Pair Programming
• Community Building

Scenarios:

• Presentation Mode - requiring one or more people to see the desktop/slides/code/etc of the presenter
• Collaboration Mode - requiring two or more people to have access and control over some shared resources (code, outline, slides, etc)

Need to cover (brain dump):

• Environment (mix of host/client OS)
• Need for a back channel
  • Persisting?
  • Signal to talk
• Audio
• Video
• Tools
• Settings
• etc...

Resources to include:
http://groups.google.com/group/railsbridge/browse_thread/thread/a5c3a9d108383547/
http://pivotallabs.com/users/chad/blog/articles/535-best-remote-pairing-settings-2008
http://simplechatter.com/2008/12/tools-for-remote-collaboration/

Tools (brain dump):

• Gnu Screen
• Skype
• Google Chat
• Leopard Screen Sharing
• RealVNC
• UltraVNC
• Gobby
• IRC (Colloquy, Firefox plugin?)
• Chat (Adium)