From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5628 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Stacey Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Mathematics via Distance Drawing Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:04:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Andrew Stacey NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268275931 13094 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2010 02:52:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:52:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: categories@mta.ca To: a.tonks@londonmet.ac.uk Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Thu Mar 11 03:52:07 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpYVK-0004dP-7U for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:52:06 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NpY37-0005CK-Iu for categories-list@mta.ca; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:22:57 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5628 Archived-At: [ Note from moderator: As the poster rightly suggests, time to move further discussion off of list; this is the last of this thread. BTW, I can confirm from a first use this morning that jarnal works smoothly as advertised - shared page collaboration is easy and no external server required; thanks to Andrew for the tip. ] On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:57:45AM +0000, a.tonks@londonmet.ac.uk wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Andrew Stacey > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 03:26:04PM -0500, Ellis D. Cooper wrote: > >> For years I have been advocating the use of internet technology to a= llow > >> mathematicians the use of ordinary handwriting and drawing on a sing= le > >> shared "virtual" sheet of paper. > > > > This is already possible. =A0The free program 'jarnal' allows one to = set up > > a server whereupon people can connect and see what everyone else is w= riting. > > Together with a graphics tablet, this is exactly what you describe. =A0= As jarnal > > is written in java, it works on any platform. > > > > Andrew > > >=20 > Yes I agree we are *nearly* there with a combination of tablets or > tablet PCs, plus something skype-like, plus something like Andrew says > - and might I mention, for those who don't have the inclination to > set up their own servers for some informal discussions, there are even > free whiteboard/conferencing sites e.g. imaginationcubed.com and vyew.c= om. One of the things about jarnal is that "setting up a server" is trivial. = It does it all for you. I should confess that I have never actually used jarnal for this, though = I use it all the time for my lectures (being able to write on the computer save= s a lot of time). If anyone likes the sound of giving it a go and would li= ke to see what it's like, I'd be happy to try it out. Probably best to arrange= this off-list if anyone's interested. Andrew [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]