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= Narcissus - A tool for team reflection

== Description

Working effectively in groups is hard, particularly for projects that span some months. Progress can be derailed by a range of problems including poor leadership, poor communication, failure to monitor progress, and social loafing. Learning to work effectively in a group is a difficult but necessary measure to ensure group success.

Groups using electronic support tools provide huge amounts of trace data, which has the potential to provide the group with insights into the effectiveness of their own operation. The [http://chai.it.usyd.edu.au/Projects/Narcissus Narcissus project] exploits this data to support the groups. The approach is to use an interactive visualisation to mirror the activities of the group members, which gives them the opportunity to see the dynamics and progress of their group.

== Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for NarcissusPlugin are 
[report:9?COMPONENT=NarcissusPlugin here].

If you have any issues, create a 
[/newticket?component=NarcissusPlugin new ticket].

[[TicketQuery(component=NarcissusPlugin,group=type,format=progress)]]

== Download

Download the zipped source from [export:narcissusplugin here].

== Source

The can check out Narcissus from [http://vandor.it.usyd.edu.au/hg/narcissus-plugin/ here] using mercurial, or [http://vandor.it.usyd.edu.au/hg/narcissus-plugin/file/tip browse the source] with !HgWeb.

== Installation

The [pypi:pillow Python Imaging Library] must be installed.
General instructions on installing Trac plugins can be found on the [TracPlugins#InstallingaTracplugin TracPlugins] page.

== Configuration

The following is an example of how this plugin could be configured in the `trac.ini` file: 
{{{#!ini
[narcissus]
cache_dir = /path/to/cache/directory
cache_manager = yes
cache_max_size = 10000000
cache_min_size = 5000000
cache_max_count = 2000
cache_min_count = 1500
ttf_path = /path/to/ttf/font

[components]
narcissus.* = enabled
}}}

== Recent Changes

[[ChangeLog(narcissusplugin, 3)]]

== Author/Contributors

'''Author:''' [wiki:chai_research] [[BR]]
'''Maintainer:''' [[Maintainer]] [[BR]]
'''Contributors:'''