Re: Proposing gobby?

[Philipp Kern <phil philkern de>]

On Nov 18, 2005, at 17:11, Pat Suwalski wrote:
> Philipp Kern wrote:
> > Please call them "text editors". By the way: We use Gobby most of the
> > time as plain-text editor in school, not for programming. (Yes it   
> > rocks
> > to take notes on classes collaboratively.)
> That is, frankly, the very best use case for gobby I've heard. Do you
> find that your notes are more cohesive and much fuller than a single
> person writing them?

Indeed. However, there are some different settings in which Gobby is  
used. Sometimes one tries to get down all the notes from the  
blackboard into the document, the other listening while writing down  
the key points. Some other time we just have to replicate all items  
from the projector, which is something that scales very nicely. It  
goes x times faster with x persons contributing. The third use case  
is to summarise the teacher's monologue together with the  
capabilities of two persons.

So we use Gobby to write down all the content of the lessons and  
later again to create a summary about all the stuff we have to learn  
for the examinations. As we are allowed to use laptops since one and  
a half years the first is done in the normal room over WLAN, but it  
could also be used in computer rooms to collaboratively work on  
preparing topics, while having two independent computers to crawl the  
internet. The summarising is then done over the internet while being  
at home.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern

P.S.: This was one of the reasons we created it (apart of pair  
programming), and it's just feasible because all three of the  
developers are in the same class at school.