The latest posting on this blog (“The Society” has emerged) told you, that we – Markus and me – had founded the “Gesellschaft für rechnergestützte Zusammenarbeit” in Austria (which means “Society for Computer Aided Collaboration”)

To keep it short, we call it just “The Society”.

But what is the purpose of “The Society”?

On the one hand, we can read in the rules of the society, that the society “extends its activities to the creation, testing and dissemination of fact-based knowledge about collaboration tools through passive and mediation of active advice as well as the necessary preparatory work”.

So our main focus will be the testing of collaboration tools and the provisioning of something like a WIKI or at least something like a “Public Blackboard”, with the aim to help other people using those collaboration tools.

On the other hand, the rules of the society do not make any statement about which concrete collaboration tools shall be actually tested. This decision is left to the General Assembly, which will gather every year during October.

So, at the moment we, Markus and me, assume that the first General Assembly will confirm our decision:

Therefore, I am currently trying to define the third project of “The Society”: DIS Experiments (Project)

You might remember:

• The first project was the founding of the society (successfully closed): Founding (Project)
• The second project has not yet been finished, but it is on a good way: Setup of the VPN (Project)

Stay tuned for more information

And have a nice week

Yours Christoph