== Report of Meeting 2023-11-23 == Present: Ed Gottsman, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault
Full transcripts of this meeting are now available on the its wiki page. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/Reprot_of_Meeting_2023-11-23 1) Bob had read out an email from Brian Schott thanking the group for their work on the J wiki project and also several comments from the YouTube site which were very positive. https://youtu.be/SLJS84u4eVc Ed plans to roll out future changes gradually introducing fixes and features on a monthly basis. The first method of making people aware will be through the J forums. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/J_Viewer 2) Skip has replied to Ed about the Quora entries that Skip Cave has posted to attract people to J. Ed now has a list of links to the documents that give him access to Skip's posts, but since there are hundreds of them Ed is looking for a more automated approach. Ed has looked into several scrapers, but Quora is vigilant in the ways that it prevents scraping. The Journal of J seems to have very large articles in a number of formats and may not be a good target for the J viewer. Ed has solved the bug that was slowing up the J viewer, but will leave the category column as is because it is a better functional solution for the user. 3) At this point we have had no requests for the J viewer and Bob wondered if we need a stronger call to action. There could be one put in the video description easily and Ed sent Bob and Raul his proposed message to the forums. Raul mentioned that Ed had not given himself enough credit for the development to which Bob agreed. Bob suggested changing "If you would like to take the J viewer for a test drive" to "To take the J Viewer for a test drive" as a more direct approach. 4) Bob mentioned that Eric Iverson had suggested that the J on AWS server https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/Cloud may be incorporated with the J Wiki. Ed felt that Eric's solution could work very well and then there was an extensive discussion about how this might be done. There were no definite solutions, but the discussion was meant to explore the possibilities. The transcript below will fill in many of these details. It was agreed that the approach taken should be that a terminal window that opens on the wiki page and does not require the user to leave the page. A good format might be something similar to BQN's approach of documentation. https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/quick.html 5) Bob did a quick demo of the Home Page https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Category:Home and the Newcomers page https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Category:Newcomers_N. Raul suggested that we might include the subtrees on the pages below the home page. Ed wondered if we could include the Category Tree on every page. Bob is concerned about the Category Tree pushing out the content on narrower screens. Raul suggested that it may be better to float the Category Tree to the right. And have the content of the wiki put into a div that could float away from the Category Tree but keep the content intact. Bob's next project for content is to recategorize the Newcomer's essays so that they are grouped in ways that are more accessible to Newcomers. Once the Essays for Newcomers is done then Bob will work on the Reference and the Community pages to prepare them for launch. Bob felt that the Category Tree might be even more useful for navigation when used on the Reference page. 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 November 30, 2023. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
