Re: [Fle3-dev] Developer community in Italy

[Teemu Leinonen]

Hi,

Fabrizio Reale wrote:
> Good morning, my name is Fabrizio Reale, I write to this mailing-list
> to announce that we have created a group of people, enterprises,
> associations and schools interested to use FLE and write extension to
>  it.

Please, let everyone in the Fle3-dev mailing list to know what kind of
extensions you have thought. I am sure everybody is very interested in
to hear what you would like to build on top of Fle3.

> Can someone tell me where the development of FLE is going?

I assume that in the development of Fle3 there is going on several
parallel major higher level tracks. Here are those I am aware of:

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(1) Shared group calendar with announcements

Check the User Story:
http://church.uiah.fi:8080/fle3docs/12v3_calendar.html.html

Nobody is currently working on this. Anyone interested in? The User 
Story is worth of reading.


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(2) Statistics for the user of her activity in the system

Check the User Interface design:
http://mlab.uiah.fi/~gkligyte/flegraphs/


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(3) Map View of Knowledge Building

This is something we have dreamed on from the very beginning of the 
project. More thoughts on this topic is already in the archives of this 
mailing list, have a look at:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/fle3-dev/2003-01/msg00000.html

If someone have some other ideas on what direction we should develop 
Fle3, please let everyone in the list to know.

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(4) Integration of Synchronous Tools (Map Tool) to Fle3

This is something we in Helsinki are working right now.

With the Ants team in University of Murcia we are trying to integrate 
their synchronous tool called Map Tool to the Fle3. The Map Tool 
consists of a whiteboard drawing area and chat. The tool facilitates 
collaborative creation of conceptual maps, diagrams and textual 
communication among students from the same course. It allows drawing 
lines, simple shapes, arrows and importing images from a local machine. 
All figures and images can be connected using lines and arrows. In Fle3 
it will be also possible to save a Map Tool session to the shared course 
folder and open session saved earlier.

The Map Tool supports (1) presence awareness (showing in the Fle3 the 
users that are using the tool); (2) whiteboard awareness (telepointer 
showing who are working in the drawing area - you can draw same time 
with another user); (3) late coming (if a user comes late to the 
session, he/she can retrieve the previous session information).

If you are interested  in to get a picture how the Map Tool will work 
with Fle3 have a look of the following User Story:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&project_task_id=942&group_id=1942&group_project_id=427

More information about the technology of the Map Tool is available at:

http://ants.etse.urv.es/

In a week or two we should get a a first internal demo server up and 
running. This server will be a total hack and no way anything we want to 
release. There is several technical problems (the Map Tool needs some 
proprietary java server to work) to make a full integration of the tools.

If someone is interested in to help us with this, please contact Tarmo.

> PS: I've found a bug

Please, use the bug collector to report the bugs.

        - Teemu

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