I also support learning by doing.
Many of these services nominally offer similar functions, so it is only ever going to be by use that we learn.
I think the Mac issue is an important one. However I suspect the service is not platform
limited despite its pedigree.

I am not prepared to migrate to a MicroSoft working environment. Given
the range of candidate solutions to our need that are truly
cross-platform, I hope we'll do a bit more looking around before
committing to an inflexible alternative.

We all have been in technology environment and have seen vraious implementation styles as above. However, I find it counterproductive to read through all this.

I am not sure how productive test trails of 25 products will be either, even 10 and sharing it with us, i.e shrinko whatever....certainly I was hoping that we focus on important issues of policy during council time, than gadget test trails.

My suggestion, although I came across strong, was to find closure for some of the the admin matters to be discussed seriously at ONE point (as Bruce has said...folks have discussed it for several years...), b y assigning interested volunteers to champion issues, in this case Ross, and suggest what is best for us. At a minimum, we can provide input to the point person, but at least it is on on our face at every meeting.

Given that we do the same for other admin matter, i.e wesite etc..I hope we all do not get to experiment the same way! I am hoping that the council time is not allocated as technical trail lab to improve our learning curves.

I certainly could be spared, as I have limited time for such experiment or reading GNSO lists for outcome of every experiment and wait for the subject line to read "Final 3 web conferencing choices" .

Bruce suggested current trail for expediency's sake, and do not think it was his intention to keep experimenting at the cost of Council time.

On 13/04/06, Cary Karp <ck@nic.museum> wrote:

> - as i did not have a linux box at my disposal at the moment
>   (as it has crashed badly and needs a rebuild)
>   i did not try it on linux.

I did. It didn't work, even after quite a bit of fiddling. I had no
other computer at hand and therefore couldn't participate in the trial run.

Given our close association with Steve Crocker maybe we should try his
Shinkuro?

       http://www.shinkuro.com/

I am not prepared to migrate to a MicroSoft working environment. Given
the range of candidate solutions to our need that are truly
cross-platform, I hope we'll do a bit more looking around before
committing to an inflexible alternative.

/Cary