Monday, December 09, 2002

Mitch Kapor Some kinds of centralization is very helpful.    Chandler - open, multi-platform email, calendar & contacts Groove serving large enterprises (he is on their board), Chandler can be more P2P and serve differrent markets Distinction between clients and servers isnt always clear Using Jabber to find others Great products always focus on the pragmatics while embodying a ideal spirit.   Q&A   On open source...More successful projects need an internal structure, large companies can also contribute their programmer's time.  Why not doing something new...Email is the productivity application, its not a small topic.  It is something new, but you have to start with what people understand...its an information management platform with a radically different idea behind it.  Being able to move from structured to unstructured views and change the structure on the fly.  Similar to the semantic web, having the software actually know something.  Distributed security built into it from the beginning. Glen Flieshman: can you make do with slower links.  A: both high and low bandwidth needed.  They need a base level of bandwidth and the ability to burst (the most common requirement) Q: Mirror worlds and scopeware.  Scopeware organizes a pool of information along a time-line. CS professor at Yale: key organizing metaphore was not time, but narrative. A: have timeline interface, its modular, and he is interested in narratives which are not linear in time Q: Is this more than an email client?  A: see the mission statement.  Lesson of Lotus: if something is widely adopted you get enormous leverage.  Leading with the application piece while designing the platform at the start.   Could build full equivalent of finder/file manager.  Dave Winer: how does this compare to Lotus in how you relate to your dev team?  A: Mitch focuses on front-end and user and depends upon people he respects for back end.  More open to new ideas than before, such as from Mitchell Baker for processes for community design.  Clearer in his role as a decision maker. Organizational design is so he can be there for years. In release 1.0 its not a Blogging tool.  Beyond that its possible, open possibilities.  Even word processor and spreadsheet. Cory: liability of email retention.  A: policy management features Doc: who has picked upon the project  A: resonates with big players, foundation interest, team building   5:43:56 PM    comment []

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