[Building Sakai] Integrate Apache Wave with Sakai?

[Eli Cochran]

I would prefer to see the full integration of Etherpad over Wave. 

IMHO, Wave failed because it was overly complex and confusing. While it filled a need (perhaps too many), it failed to communicate to the user "how" you were supposed to use it. I spent quite a bit of time with it and was never clear what the _right_ way to use it was. In any given situation was I supposed to create something new, edit what was there, comment on what was there, send a chat, etc... 

This was when it first came out, and perhaps it has been improved on, but unless there have been significant improvements to the UI, I don't think that it's worth the effort. 

Etherpad however just works. And though it does much less than Wave, it does it very well in a way that is clear to understand. (Big kudos to Steve Githens for the work that he's already done bringing EtherPad into Sakai.)

My 2 cents,
Eli 

On Dec 9, 2010, at 9:53 AM, John A. Lewis wrote:

> Now that Google Wave has become Apache Wave (see
> http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2010/12/introducing-apache-wave.html
> ), is anyone thinking about integration with either Sakai 2/CLE or Sakai
> 3/OAE?
> 
> I think we were all intrigued by Wave when it launched, but saw it more
> as a collaboration and discussion tool rather than "the next generation
> of email" as Google tried to position it. In the context of a course or
> other focus collaboration area, it seems like a very powerful evolution
> of the discussion forum.
> 
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Eli Cochran
manager of user experience design
user interaction developer
Educational Technology Services, UC Berkeley

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