Re: next meeting is Apr 5 @ 2pm

[robert b <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

--- Bob <http://www.gmail.com/~bob> wrote:
> Wetpaint looks pretty interesting. On the other hand, Google Sites is just
> one part of Google Apps, which include shared documents and spreadsheets.
> That capability could be very useful as the group develops marketing
> materials, business plans, letters of intent, etc. because it centralizes
> the activity in the cloud--no more wondering who has the most up-to-date
> version of a document (I've used both the spreadsheet and document
> capability, and they're pretty decent implementations--not all features of
> word or excel are included, but it's pretty close--all through the web, and
> responsive).

Yeah, these features seem pretty nice.  Having structured data entry would be
good (yahoo groups have "databases", but I'm loathe to commit to that if we can
get it through the Google Apps thing).

> I don't know enough about google apps, but I suspect that to do
> collaborative work, people would have to be assigned an id. The good thing
> is that is totally under the administrator's control: you can add any number
> of ids.
> 
> I think I'll go ahead and play with a google site.

Sounds good.