Hi all, On the topic of sign-in:
On 14 October 2013 22:42, Rufus Pollock <rufus.poll...@okfn.org> wrote: > On Monday, 14 October 2013, Gene Shackman wrote: > >> Looks nice, but why do you have to sign up using a twitter account? And >> why google spreadsheets? What if you don't have an account with either of >> those? For future applications can you design it so you don't need twitter >> or google? >> > > Twitter: happy to have another sign in mechanism but want something quick > and convenient for most people that involved them already having reserved a > unique username. Specifically we wanted to avoid being responsible, at this > point, for doing the whole signup process (storing passwords, doing > password recovery, handling spam accounts etc) > How about Mozilla Persona, have we tried using it in projects? http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ It seems to be well-designed, as usual by the privacy-minded Mozilla folks. The friction of creating an account on Persona would be arguably very similar to asking users to create a separate account for TimeMapper (and of course if it works well, it could be supported in other Labs projects). That isn't to say we stop supporting Twitter sign-ins of course. The lightweight web chat folks at http://scrollback.io/ have a demo which integrates with Persona. (When the web chat bar appears in the bottom right, click the autogenerated username and you'll be prompted to log in / sign up using Persona.) Thanks, Emanuil > Re google spreadsheets: its the best simple tabular data backend and one > that very large number of people use. JSON and straight up CSV could easily > be supported but they are more complex and are more complex for > non-techhies to use (e.g. can't just be any CSV would need to be one CORS > accessible etc). > > Rufus > > >> >> Gene >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Rufus Pollock <rufus.poll...@okfn.org> >> *To:* okfn-discuss <okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org> >> *Sent:* Monday, October 14, 2013 3:34 AM >> *Subject:* [okfn-discuss] [ANN] TimeMapper - Create Elegant TimeMaps >> from Google Spreadsheets in seconds >> >> Hi All, >> >> TimeMapper <http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/> is a new web app from Open >> Knowledge Foundation Labs <http://okfnlabs.org/> that lets you create >> interactive timemaps from Google spreadsheets quickly and easily. >> >> http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org >> >> More information in this post: >> http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2013/10/11/timemapper.html >> >> Examples: >> >> - Major Battles in the Napoleonic >> Wars<http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/rufuspollock/major-battles-napoleonic-wars> >> - Medieval >> Philosophers<http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/okfn/medieval-philosophers> >> - US City Bankruptcies since the Financial >> Crisis<http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/rufuspollock/us-city-bankruptcies> >> - Archaeology of >> Wine<http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/adamrabinowitz/archaeowinetimeliner> >> >> The site is a simple node.js app with storage into s3. The timemap viz is >> pure JS built using KnightLabs excellent Timeline.js for the timeline and >> Leaflet (with OSM) for the maps. For those interested in the code it can be >> found here: https://github.com/okfn/timemapper/ >> >> Regards, >> >> Rufus >> ** >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > * > > Rufus Pollock > > Founder and Executive Director | skype: rufuspollock | > @rufuspollock<https://twitter.com/rufuspollock> > > The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> > > Empowering through Open Knowledge > http://okfn.org/ | @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN> | OKF on > Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork>| > Blog <http://blog.okfn.org/> | Newsletter<http://okfn.org/about/newsletter> > > * > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > >
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