xLab Founders Group - Meeting 2
The second xLab Consortium (title is only tentative) meeting is to be held at UTS on January 27/28, 2010, to continue discussions on the formation of an international consortium to foster the creation and worldwide sharing of online laboratories.
Documents
- Agenda
- Others?
Workgroup Members and mailing lists
General Consortium Founders Mailing List: ilab-founders@mit.edu
Discussions on consortia title
The initial discussions on the consortia used the title "iLabs Consortia". At the first meeting, after some discussion, it was recognized that there were benefits in the consortia being broader than the a single current architecture (i.e. iLabs) and that by generalizing the focus, it would become more inclusive and provide stronger support for ongoing development. At this inaugural meeting the term xLabs was used as a temporary placeholder to replace iLabs in the title, until a better name could be determined.
xLabs cannot (probably) be used, as it is current used in various contexts
- http://groups.google.com/group/x-labs/about
- http://www.xlabs.com/
- http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showforum=73
- http://xlabs.deviantart.com/
- http://www.physicslessons.com/xlabs.html
- ... amongst many others.
We therefore need to consider what is an alternative appropriate name.
Other projects, systems, architectures, etc. that have been used previously include (with and withough spaces or hyphens in various combinations): iLabs, LabShare, LiLa, WebLab, NetLab, eLab, online-Lab, ...
So, suggestions include:
- uLabs (Universal Labs / You Labs)
- LabCloud
- farLabs
- flexibleLabs, flexLabs
- ...
Comments on the above welcome....