Presentation Collaboration in Time
From ActiveArchives
AA draws from the many software tools of Free Software community that support the decentralized collaboration over time.
Could show parallels between the structure of an Subversion archive, and mediawiki's History View of a page.
- History Flow Tool for visualizing of the history of Wikipedia edits
- History of Python SVN Movie The history of collaboration on the Python programming language, as an animation of SVM "commit" data
- "Heavy metal-umlaut" The history of a wikipedia article, told as a narrated screencast
The Extreme Programming (or XP) "movement" encourages a new style of managing and planning programming projects emphasizing a style of "embracing change" through favoring rapid cycles of design, coding, and more rigid styles of project planning that penalize "late changes". Interestingly, the "XP" concepts come from the wiki software community (Ward Cunningham, Portland Pattern Repository [1]). XP explicitly involves social structures (like programmers working in rotating "pairs" to facilitate communication among a team). Interestingly, XP's focus on face-to-face communication (among a team of programmers, or working with a "client") reflects an awareness of the limitations of strictly web-based communication, and sees digital tools more as catalysts or complements to an essentially social process.
