So a major theme at
Open Publish 2008 was "collaboration".
- Brett Jackson (in his capacity as a recently-departed employee of Atlassian) started off well, dipped into a puff-piece and then came good in the end.
- Michael Sampson talked about expertise location & some other collaboraty stuff.
- Cairo Walker talked about working with the WWF - and included some interesting facts about bees & elephants.
- James Robertson had some interesting points about collaboration - including the distinction between the internal (collaboration) & external (publishing) roles of team collaboration.
- Nerida Hart presented on the LWA work she has been doing.
I have two concerns with all this talk of collaboration:
- Keeping the focus purely on collaboration technology rather than all the other elements.
- Making it concrete & specific. Who wants to collaborate on what and why? Because not all collaboration situations are the same and what works well for a co-located team will not work for a global community of interest. "Collaboration" (like "knowledge" or "innovation") is a word that covers a multitude of sins.
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