Shared/Networked "Whiteboard" software?

[Joshua Penix]

On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 11:44, Allan Metts wrote:

> I don't need video conferencing (don't want to comb my hair or get out of 
> my bathrobe), and we can use traditional phone conferencing for 
> audio.  What I'm looking for is something simple and easy-to-configure that 
> lets everyone scribble on the same something while we talk -- with 
> reasonable responsiveness.

I think you'll be very interested in The Coccinella, which is an
enhanced Jabber client that has full whiteboard functionality.

http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/


> I know about Webex and Micro$oft NetMeeting, but I'm hoping to find just a 
> simple daemon that can run on a server connected to the Internet.  I don't 
> even want to configure Apache if I don't have to -- but if there's 
> something that supports both Fedora and Windows users, all the better.

Coccinella works on Linux, Windows and Macintosh and can operate in
peer-to-peer mode or over a Jabber server.  You can use a public Jabber
server, or if you prefer running your own, Jabberd (the server) isn't
too hard to get going on a Fedora box with the SRPM provided at
http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/1.4/

Let us know how it works out!

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