[Building Sakai] Floating Chat and business networking

[Adrian Fish]

Hi All,

I've attached an updated version of the floating chat tool prototype to 
the JIRA ticket at http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-17524. Some 
of the UI is functional, some of it not; the main purpose is to give 
Sakai 2 users a feeling for how we might do cross site and tool chat.. 
I'm currently working on pulling the connection graph from Profile2 and 
prototyping some private chat functionality -  when I've made some 
progress on that I'll attach another prototype.

On a slightly different FYI note ...

At Lancaster we've just started a JISC funded project called CRIB 
(http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre/crib.aspx) and as part of 
this we will be looking into ways of matching Sakai users up based both 
on their published materials such as blog posts, forum posts, wiki 
materials and profile data. One of the aims of the project will be to 
measure how effective this automated matching will be at bootstrapping 
enduring and meaningful collaborations. We're hoping to do a talk about 
our progress in Denver.

Cheers,

Adrian.

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Adrian Fish
Software Engineer
Centre for e-Science
Bowland Tower South C Floor
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YW
email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk

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