organization of files, a set of relationships is forced
to be done, and artificially, considered essential and
central. We must choose only one hierarchy, like
time, project, importance, injuring the other
representations. This assumption can leverage some
base addresses that should be covered, then by other
conventions as pseudonyms, shortcuts and databases
(Menezes, 2005).
The LABSTATEORG processes were done all by
paper in the past, and the computers were just
isolated between them and from the internet. There
was no structured network or any privileged way for
structuring the electronic information. The paper
simulation is also wrong and, generally, it is
incapable. Vital matters and document structures are
actually ignored in the paper simulation like covers
and document parallels, of which notations and
spiral controversy are key examples. Issues like
versions administration, rights administered citation,
and original context availability and the spiral
controversy are key examples. Taking away these
traditional structures bring us many choices to take
in place, which aren’t explored yet. As a concept
proof, a web application must be tested so that users
can experience benefits on new workflow process.
Demonstrative examples of these systems already
circulate for some time. Now it is time to construct
user-guided environments to leave traditional
principles. New environments can be more sensible
and inhabitable for the common user, and more
adapted to the interests for people that the
conventional and traditional structures that we have
constructed since always. In the conventional
paradigm, users must be worried about the
nomination of filing cabinets, hierarchy and
localization and users need different applications for
its worlds of information. Fifty years of tradition on
computer science are being cured and annulled to
open possibilities that we still don’t suspect
(Menezes, 2005).
A virtual community is constructed from common
interests, knowledge, mutual projects and exchange
values, settled in a cooperation process. For the
community to have success, in contrast of what
many defend, what matters is not the rules imposed,
nor the proper technology, but the people, like the
professor still the main picture today in school,
almost always related with the owner of knowing,
the gentleman, he has to teach the way, to show the
certain missed. Only changing our way of thinking
we can modify deeply rooted politics and practices.
Only changing our interacting form we will be able
to establish shared visions and understandings, and
new capacities to coordinate action. A learning
process that modifies the mental models is highly
challenging, perplexing. It can be frightful when
collating beliefs and estimated consecrated, it cannot
be made separately. It only occurs inside of a
community of apprentices. The feeling to belong, the
notion that the individual is part of all, and that it
cooperates to a common purpose with the other
members, the territoriality, the permanence, are
essential conditions for the establishment of social
relations. The social relations between the members
of a virtual community are never distant (Lévy,
1999) (Palloff and Pratt, 1999).
The social life of a community is necessary, for it
provides the involvements for sharing knowledge
and to the community success itself. These relations
are constructed through the mutual interaction
between the individuals, in a period of time, having
the permanence understood as a continuous secular
space of relationship between its basic requirements.
The proper community is organized and auto-
regulated. All members learn reading the messages,
and helping themselves when a situation, problem or
question appears. During the interaction processes,
the members construct and express abilities, which
can be recognized and are valued immediately by
the community itself as it constructs intellectual
affinities, partnerships and alliances, feelings of
friendship and others. It is developed in the groups
of interaction, in the same way as it happens
between people who are close physically to talk. In
the virtual communities of learning, the on-line
relations are very far from being cold. They do not
exclude the emotions. The personality of each
participant finishes being expressed through the
style of writing, abilities, taking of position,
evidenced in the human beings relationships or
interactions. The leader appears naturally. Roles are
assumed clearly. Between the members of virtual
communities, it is also developed a strong concept of
social moral, a species of behaviour code, a set of
norms not written in normal relations (Lévy, 1999).
3 IMPLEMENTATION
When applying technology in a software engineering
project, some boundary issues should be considered.
In this particular case was the internet or network,
the web language and the database. Some documents
were produced in order to specify clearly the
problem needs and requirements, using a proper
development process methodology for the problem
domain. There were two students working on this
project, a professor and the coordinator from the
LABSTATEORG. The development process
methodology taken was RAD (Rapid Application
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