Features are scheduled over a period of time such as days or a week, instead of hours to allow participants from all over the globe time to access and respond. Participants can check in and look at the dialogue any time that is convenient for them, since this is an asynchronous event . The NASA-JPL Ocean Envoys online workshop is planned from Monday January 22nd through to Friday February 9th, 2001. It will be easy to catch up and join in a discussion even if it started days or weeks ago. You will be able to introduce a topic of your interest in the Open Space area.
All participants have the option of starting a new item in the Open Space area.
This is also true for the Social Area, though not true for the rest of the workshop spaces. A. Yes, and you will need the Real Networks Player to see some of the presentations. However, the main media used is asynchronous conferencing where someone starts a conversation by posting in writing and then everyone that arrives after the posting can respond. Posts are made in order of time posted so the result is much like a real dialogue. Discussion items are separated by subject and the person featured so it's automatically organized and archived as well.