tam@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Thomas Rodden) (07/20/90)
We are currently trying to establish a mechanism for allowing a number of different departments in the university to cooperate using some form of CSCW technology. It was felt a good starting point might be to establish a computer conferencing facility within the university. Does anybody know of a conferencing system we can run on our UNIX systems. Obviously a public domain system would be preferable but we are also interested in peoples experiences with commercial systems. With thanks in advance Tom Rodden -- uucp: ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!tam Department of Computing arpa: tam%lancs.comp@ucl.cs University of Lancaster janet: tam@uk.ac.lancs.comp Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK
cyoes@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Cissy Yoes) (07/24/90)
In article <975@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, tam@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Thomas Rodden) writes: |> |> |> We are currently trying to establish a mechanism for allowing a |> number of different departments in the university to cooperate using |> some form of CSCW technology. It was felt a good starting point might |> be to establish a computer conferencing facility within the university. |> Does anybody know of a conferencing system we can run on our |> UNIX systems. Obviously a public domain system would be preferable |> but we are also interested in peoples experiences with commercial |> systems. |> |> With thanks in advance |> |> |> Tom Rodden |> |> |> -- |> uucp: ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!tam Department of Computing |> arpa: tam%lancs.comp@ucl.cs University of Lancaster |> janet: tam@uk.ac.lancs.comp Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK I do not have any personal experience with any of the following systems, but thought these leads might be helpful in your search-- Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES) Computerized Conferencing and Communication Center New Jersey Institute of Technology 323 High Street Newark, New Jersey 07102 COM/PortaCOM Stockholm University Computing Center Box 27322 S-102 54 Stockholm, Sweden CONFER II Advertel Communication Systems, Inc. 2067 Ascot Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103 NotesFile Notesfile Reference Manual Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1304 W. Springfield Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801-2987 NOTEPAD InfoMEDIA Corp. 801 Traeger Avenue, Suite 275 San Bruno, California 94066 Parti/Participate Participation Systems, Inc. 50 Cross Street Winchester, Mass. 01890 CAUCUS Metasystems Design Group, Inc. 2000 North 15th Street, Suite 103 Arlington, Virginia 22201 CoSy Contact Univ of Guelph Continuing Education Division Guelph, Ontatio, Canada N1G 2 W1 (519) 824-4120 ext. 3956 for information on who is marketing the software And, I know that there was an experiment at Syrac use Univ. using Hypercard as an interface on a VAX mainframe to create a conference to support a literature class. Good luck. Let us know what you find out. Cissy Yoes Project Specialist Information Technology Program Baylor College of Medicine cyoes@bcm.tmc.edu
hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison) (07/24/90)
cyoes@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Cissy Yoes) writes: >In article <975@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, tam@comp.lancs.ac.uk >(Thomas Rodden) writes: >|> >|> >|> We are currently trying to establish a mechanism for allowing a >|> number of different departments in the university to cooperate using >|> some form of CSCW technology. It was felt a good starting point might >|> be to establish a computer conferencing facility within the university. >|> Does anybody know of a conferencing system we can run on our >|> UNIX systems. Obviously a public domain system would be preferable >|> but we are also interested in peoples experiences with commercial >|> systems. >I do not have any personal experience with any of the following systems, but >thought these leads might be helpful in your search-- (lots of stuff deleted) You might also look into the BBN/Slate package, which runs on Sun workstations, the new IBM RS workstations and the DecStation running Ultrix. It is available in both Sunview and X-WIndow versions. BBN/Slate is a multimedia document communications and conferencing system, designed to run over both local and wide-area networks. Conferencing can occur between any number of sites which have TCP/IP connectivity. Because the system is multimedia, you can conference over text, graphics, images, spreadsheets, etc. It is a very exciting package, and I say so even though I've worked at BBN the past three years on the system. For more information, contact Scott Richardson at 617-873-8124, or send mail to scott@bbn.com. Herb Lison