== Report of Meeting 2023-07-13 == Present: Art Anger, Ed Gottsman, Dave Lambert and Bob Therriault
Full transcripts of this meeting are now available on the its wiki page. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/Report_of_Meeting_2023-07-13 1) Bob reported that the J primer revamping is complete for the first section. Revamped pages can be identified by an index of pages below the content. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Help/Primer/001Start_here Revamping the dictionary page involved substituting NuVoc as the current J reference instead of the J dictionary. 2) Ed told the story of his laptop's fatal interaction with pure Irish grain fed butter. Then there was a brief demo of the new interface of the J browser which is less hover based. Ed indicated that he was looking forward to hearing Stephen's reaction to it, as he feels it is 90% of the way to completion and may require a round of beta testing to finish off the rough edges involving interactions with different platforms. Graying out information that is not directly selected was suggested as a way to provide information pertinent to the search. 3) Bob draws a distinction between navigation by categorization, https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Special:CategoryTree?target=Category%3AHome&mode=categories&namespaces=&title=Special%3ACategoryTree which is what the original plan had been and navigation by interface, which is what Ed is providing. Ed pointed out that his interface relies on goo categorization as well, so it is more both than one or the other. 4) Dave spoke for a bit about challenges that his Unix box was facing in running the browser and he will provide Ed with details as soon as he has had a better chance to investigate. 5) Art thought that the new browser showed a lot of progress. 6) Bob talked about developing the Newcomers section https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Category:Newcomers_N a bit more before switching to the new format. Finishing off the J Primer and providing an easier introduction to the information in NuVoc. The complete information would still be available through the Reference subtree. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Category:Reference_R The Newcomers section may have more prominence by being near the top of the category section with Search and Bookmarks. Ed thought that more WD information could be positioned more prominently in the Developers section 7) Ed also talked about the benefits of the bookmarking section which would allow the user to easily customize the information by selecting links that they personally found most useful. For access to previous meeting reports https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki_Development If you would like to participate in the development of the J wiki please contact us on the general forum and we will get you an invitation to the next J wiki meeting held on Thursdays at 23:00 (UTC) Next meeting is July 20th, 2023. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
