OpenAppJS Project Update - September
Simon Tegg
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New Developers!
The biggest news is that other developers have become interested in the project:
Mikey's going to help out Benjamin Lupton with the interconnect project and possibly align it making use use openappjs components.
We were also contacted last week by Ethan, David and Rylan from Colab.coop (a social enterprise service company similar to Enspiral and based in New York ). They use loomio and are very interested in cobudget. They had also been thinking along very similar lines of a suite of apps running off an opensourced microservice API's. They want to get a project reporting app up and running quite quickly, and will focus on the existing people + groups + [reports? + projects?] APIs.
Welcome to openapp! We look forward to the new energy and ideas these folks bring!
Logistics:
Mikey has returned to the States but continues to work on openappjs and has also been helping out on cobudget.
I've taken on a 30hr/week contract with Twingl to pay the bills and keep working on openapp outside of this. Their trailblazer project has some similar UI ideas as the openapp data browser ui. I have some freedom to pursue interesting ideas in the trailblazer frontend so I'm hoping to take these learnings and apply them to openapp later on.
Craftodex (people data browser for Enspiral Craftworks):
Craftodex will be our first attempt to combine the people API service with openappjs UI components. The plan is the this will eventually be able to browse all kinds of open- linked-data out there on the web (e.g. http://dbpedia.org) using user-friendly semantic search,and customisable view options.
To this end we've been building up tiny UI pieces in the OpenAppJS repos that we will combine into apps (you can see how this works here
The goals of this project are:
Build out full set of UI components following the ARIA spec. Eventually making composing a frontend app as easy as writing a schema.
Appeal to js developers and get them interested in openApp. To this end we're using the mercury frontend framework. Mercury is a highly performant and scalable framework but could do with some more examples and better documentation By building our components in mercury we help the nascent mercury community get off the ground and give them some working reference examples.
- We're thinking of licensing things in a Peer-production license and stir up these developers and get them thinking about alternative economic models that support open-source developers directly (rather than just working for big corporate and doing open-source on the side).
- Test out hypothesis that users find a federated semantic search across multiple providers valuable.
- Test the hypothesis that users find browsing data in a 'network view' (rather than just the prevalent 'list view') valuable.
- Provide Craftworks with somewhere to find contact information about our rapidly expanding team :).
Josef Davies-Coates Sat 20 Sep 2014 8:38AM
Thanks for the update, sounds like lots is going on, great stuff :)
elf Pavlik Sat 20 Sep 2014 10:00AM
I feel especially excited about collaboration with on of top Open Source contributors in JavaScript (and in general) http://git.io/top \o/
@ahdinosaur do you know if @balupton will join this group? BTW 'sup @dominictarr :)
Bob Haugen Sat 20 Sep 2014 10:46AM
@simontegg - do you plan to use the Peer Production license as written? Or re-write it? We took a look at it, but it was written so specifically for literary and artistic works that we backed off. I mean, I think of code as art, but probably most people don't...
http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License
Tibor Katelbach Sat 20 Sep 2014 8:38PM
would it be possible to organise a Hangout to discuss directions for open App and maybe start a frequent sharing process to expose who is doing what ? this could be interesting to start collaboration initiatives. we have started a similar meetup in French though called build commons and I think open App is the similar english version
Poll Created Sat 20 Sep 2014 8:42PM
Building Commons / Open APi meetup Closed Tue 23 Sep 2014 8:08PM
Create a "who does/wants to do what" monthly meetup to help collaboration initiatives
it would be a 1h or 1h30min Hangout where any actor of the open app approach could present himself and project to prevent different people redoing the same things, promote collaboration and sharing code, present interoperable architectures ..etc
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| Abstain | 7.1% | 1 |
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14 of 120 people have participated (11%)
elf Pavlik
Sat 20 Sep 2014 9:13PM
count me in!
Lynn Foster
Sat 20 Sep 2014 10:10PM
Excellent! Perhaps people can contribute to the agenda ahead of time or at the beginning of the meeting, and the group agree on what will be talked about.
Jon Richter
Sat 20 Sep 2014 11:02PM
- open apis and standards
- mapping of all those initiatives
- date & time ? ;)
Caroline Smalley
Sun 21 Sep 2014 3:38AM
it's a good idea, Tibor. let's give it a shot and see where it goes! i'll be away in Toronto (meeting with collaborator 100-mad.com and global citizen forum)... back on 10th Oct
Caroline Smalley · Sat 20 Sep 2014 5:43AM
Thanks for the update! Some interesting development with The Citizens Media. Intend to use Loomio to help drive decisions on a collaborative currency exchange.