Hey all,
Here's a quick summary of our Fluid Engage technical planning meeting
today...
The next month or two will be focused on using McCord's excellent
artifact pages as a starting point for building mobile-friendly
exhibit components using the Web. This will give us a chance to dig
into some of the fuzzy architectural problems and get some clarity,
experiment with real exhibit data, and actually create some viable
user interfaces.
Goals:
- Work with McCord's data and CMS to create mobile-friendly user
interfaces for their artifacts
- Use this to create generalized components and data feeds for
exhibit objects
- Build out infrastructure for flexible UI design using Infusion
and open web standards
- Settle on our remaining architectural decisions
Stuff to Do:
1. iPhone support for the Fluid Skinning System
* Who's interested so far? Jacob & Heidi
* Tasks:
- Dive into existing CSS frameworks for the iPhone, including iUI
and Magic
- Familiarize ourselves with mobile WebKit techniques (markup,
styles, animations, etc.)
- Use Clayton's example as a starting point:
http://spot.colorado.edu/~clayton/fluid%20stuff/mccordhackip.html
- Build a new FSS or integrate an existing solution into FSS
2. Services layer: exhibit object data feed
* Who's Interested? Michelle, David, Yura, with Antranig and Colin
lending a hand
* Tasks:
- Get to know the data
- Familiarize ourselves with existing Museum APIs
- Write a preliminary service to import it (use JavaScript or
Python with CouchDB until we have chosen our services layer tech)
- Define a REST API for sharing exhibit data based on museum APIs
3. Architectural Decisions
* Who's interested? Colin with help from Antranig and others
- Choose a programming language for our server-side work
- Select frameworks for services layer
- Prepare a proposal for voting by the community
4. Mapping
* Who's interested? James, Antranig, Alison
* Tasks:
- This one is probably more research-driven for now
- What are others doing? Don't want to duplicate; things we can
reuse?
- Determine technologies: Canvas + Processing.js? File formats? SVG?
5. Infusion
* Who's interested? Antranig, Alison, Justin, Laurel
* Tasks:
- New IoC container
- Improved Pager API
- More a11y improvements & testing
- Custom build Builder
As always, if you don't see your name beside a particular task and
you're interested in getting involved, let us know.
Colin
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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org
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