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Foil 14 Status of Tango Collaborative System

From Master Set of WebWisdom Education and Training System: Distributed Objects and Collaboration SC97 Education Presentation and Later NSF Physics (Dec 3) -- 16 November97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
It must be competitive with best available collaborative tools and so its multi-language interface allows us to interface to other systems with Tango supplying Integrated Session Control
  • e.g. interfaces to Microsoft NetMeeting
Basic model is that of a room which is a group of people getting together for a class
  • Tango2 (April98) will support a very powerful persistent multi-room paradigm
Each room supports a collection of shared objects chosen by teacher/students/administrator

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