Mark Shuttleworth: Real real-time collaboration
Collaboration is the key ingredient in free software - the fact that developers can collaborate despite geographical and cultural differences between them is what has made it all possible. And our tools for collaboration are pretty good. I maintain you need three things before you get an explosion in collaboration: you need a common format, you need revision control (so you know who changed what, when) and you need a transport layer. In the case of free software, it was text files, CVS and email that underpinned much of the growth in the developer community.
Recently, wiki’s have shown the benefits of direct collaboration for content other than source code - and wiki’s also have those three ingredients - a format, revision control, and a transport layer.
We could do with some improved tools (I think Bazaar has all the ingredients for a next-gen version control system, for a start, take a look at it if you’ve not done so recently) in the free software community. But this post isn’t about that - it’s about bringing collaboration to chattering classes.
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