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<DIV>&gt; Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:59:54 +0100<BR>&gt; From: andy.wootton@wyrley.demon.co.uk<BR>&gt; To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk<BR>&gt; Subject: [Wolves] White-board software<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; I&nbsp;narrowly&nbsp;avoided&nbsp;redundancy&nbsp;by&nbsp;morphing&nbsp;from&nbsp;an&nbsp;ex-programmer,&nbsp;<BR>&gt; ex-techie,&nbsp;ex-security&nbsp;officer&nbsp;into&nbsp;an&nbsp;apprentice&nbsp;business&nbsp;analyst.&nbsp;This&nbsp;<BR>&gt; is&nbsp;one&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;reasons&nbsp;you&nbsp;haven't&nbsp;heard&nbsp;much&nbsp;from&nbsp;me&nbsp;lately.<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; I'm&nbsp;learning&nbsp;lots&nbsp;of&nbsp;lovely&nbsp;diagramming&nbsp;techniques&nbsp;and&nbsp;I&nbsp;use&nbsp;Umbrello&nbsp;<BR>&gt; software&nbsp;for&nbsp;UML&nbsp;.&nbsp;The&nbsp;problem&nbsp;is&nbsp;that&nbsp;it&nbsp;isn't&nbsp;quite&nbsp;quick&nbsp;enough&nbsp;to&nbsp;<BR>&gt; use&nbsp;during&nbsp;an&nbsp;interview.&nbsp;I&nbsp;like&nbsp;the&nbsp;'Agile'&nbsp;idea&nbsp;of&nbsp;using&nbsp;a&nbsp;white-board&nbsp;<BR>&gt; and&nbsp;taking&nbsp;a&nbsp;photograph&nbsp;of&nbsp;it&nbsp;or&nbsp;of&nbsp;using&nbsp;a&nbsp;graphics&nbsp;tablet&nbsp;and&nbsp;VERY&nbsp;<BR>&gt; simple&nbsp;drawing&nbsp;software&nbsp;that&nbsp;does&nbsp;no&nbsp;more&nbsp;than&nbsp;working&nbsp;like&nbsp;a&nbsp;<BR>&gt; white-board&nbsp;that&nbsp;saves.&nbsp;I&nbsp;don't&nbsp;want&nbsp;polygons,&nbsp;spline-curves&nbsp;etc.,&nbsp;just&nbsp;<BR>&gt; pens,&nbsp;a&nbsp;rubber&nbsp;and&nbsp;file&nbsp;save.&nbsp;At&nbsp;a&nbsp;push&nbsp;-&nbsp;zoom&nbsp;in&nbsp;and&nbsp;out;&nbsp;move&nbsp;up,&nbsp;<BR>&gt; down,&nbsp;left&nbsp;and&nbsp;right,&nbsp;type&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;keyboard.<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; So&nbsp;does&nbsp;anyone&nbsp;know&nbsp;of&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;software&nbsp;for<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; a)&nbsp;cleaning&nbsp;up&nbsp;digital&nbsp;photographs&nbsp;physical&nbsp;white-boards&nbsp;automatically&nbsp;<BR>&gt; like&nbsp;http://www.polyvision.com/products/wbp.asp&nbsp;does&nbsp;on&nbsp;Windows&nbsp;(a&nbsp;20&nbsp;<BR>&gt; minute&nbsp;Gimp&nbsp;session&nbsp;isn't&nbsp;quick&nbsp;enough.&nbsp;I&nbsp;might&nbsp;want&nbsp;to&nbsp;refer&nbsp;back&nbsp;to&nbsp;<BR>&gt; the&nbsp;drawing&nbsp;I&nbsp;wiped&nbsp;5&nbsp;minutes&nbsp;ago&nbsp;now.)<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; or&nbsp;b)&nbsp;stupidly&nbsp;simple&nbsp;'white-board'&nbsp;emulation<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; It's&nbsp;hard&nbsp;to&nbsp;Google&nbsp;for&nbsp;this&nbsp;stuff&nbsp;without&nbsp;getting&nbsp;electronic&nbsp;<BR>&gt; white-boards&nbsp;for&nbsp;education&nbsp;or&nbsp;2&nbsp;grand&nbsp;'tablet&nbsp;PCs.'<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; Some&nbsp;amazing&nbsp;idea&nbsp;I&nbsp;haven't&nbsp;thought&nbsp;of&nbsp;would&nbsp;be&nbsp;good&nbsp;too.<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; Woo<BR>&gt; <BR>I think a program called wb from LBL is a whiteboard tool but i can't remember if its for co-op use over a network or not.</DIV>
<DIV>Suppose you could google it and try it..</DIV>
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