(2014-03-05) Bicking Next Level Of Collaboration

Ian Bicking is seeking the Next Level Of Collaboration Ware. Intense collaboration is cool, but it’s not comprehensive. I don’t want to always be watching over your shoulder. What will first come to mind is privacy, but that’s not interesting to me. I would rather address privacy by helping you scope your actions, let you interact with your peers or not and act appropriately with that in mind. I don’t want to engage with my collaborators all the time because it’s boring and unproductive and my eyes glaze over. I want to engage with other people appropriately: with all the intensity called for given the circumstances, but also all the passivity that is also sometimes called for. I’ve started to think in terms of categories of collaboration.