User talk:Lbaker

Sounds good to me -- I have an exam on the 18th, and am flying to California on the 21st, but I should be able to gchat or im on the 22nd or 23rd if we set a time in advance (and I'll be on west-coast time, so preferably not too early) Cooper 04:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

re: Gobby

Alas, I've looked into this before and gobby is really the best-of-breed out there (alternatives I've tried include things like Google Docs, but the latency on those is pretty bad, and it doesn't cope well with many simultaneous users - or having a simultaneous screen session, which is tricky to set up and use, and also only allows one typer at a time).

I agree that gobby for the mac is a somewhat painful setup - perhaps we can find a way to work around that. For starters, would this tutorial help at all? (I'm not sure what instruction set you've been following.) If not, I'd be happy to meet with you before or after class, or online, and see if we can get it going together (I don't myself have a Mac, but I'll ask some of my friends who may have gotten Gobby to work on theirs before).

(Apologies for the latency - have been traveling without internet, and am currently writing this from Wellington, NZ.) Mchua 03:50, 27 January 2009 (UTC)S

Etherpad as gobby alternative?

After tonight's class, I wondered what you thought of http://etherpad.com/, which I hadn't known about before - it seems quite similar to gobby (it is slower, but far better than Google Docs at allowing simultaneous edits). Mchua 07:38, 10 February 2009 (UTC)