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May. 23rd, 2008 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j4If someone told you they could offer you Support for learners, teachers and researchers using "Web 2.0" technologies and mobile devices to access institutional systems ... what sort of things would you be asking them for? Please assume that they have reasonable quantities of time and money at their disposal, but that they would really prefer not to use up too much of that time having an argument about what "web 2.0 technologies" means. :-}
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Date: 2008-05-23 12:53 pm (UTC)That's provoked a thought.
Cambridge's Prayer webmail system (http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/prayer/) was a response to Oxford's rather good Wing system. It was really very good at the end of my time in Cambridge, and has been upgraded quite a bit since.
It's open source for HOT HOT geek action.
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Date: 2008-05-23 01:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-23 01:19 pm (UTC)One of the initial reasons for writing it, I gather, is that Cambridge didn't have a webmail system, Pine sucked for attachments, and people didn't like Mulberry (a properly installed client). One of the geek motivations for it was that Wing at Oxford took up a shelf or two of computers, at the time; Tony and David were very happy they had Prayer running for the whole university on two machines.
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Date: 2008-05-23 01:22 pm (UTC)Oxford's mail situation is, uh, in flux at the moment, though. If I told you anything more I'd probably have to kill you, & that would be a shame.
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Date: 2008-05-23 01:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-23 01:16 pm (UTC)