I'm interested. I haven't used Urweb but I love standard ML, so my contributions would be perhaps less immediate as others more familiar with the codebase
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:47 PM Adam Chlipala <[email protected]> wrote: > Some of you may remember the Ur/Web People Organizer (UPO) library > <http://upo.csail.mit.edu/> that I've mentioned a few times. It's an > Ur/Web component library for rapid creation of applications to organize > people -- a pretty broad remit. It uses a lot of metaprogramming to write > your application for you based on your database schema. > > Suddenly an important variant of coordinating people is running a virtual > event. For instance, many planned conferences have moved to online > substitutes, on short notice. Events often have subtle differences from > each other while sharing many logistical elements. > > I wonder what interest there is out there in developing enough new UPO > components to support virtual events. For instance, I think it needs good > ways to interact with video-conferencing software to livestream talks with > Q&A, and to make the recorded videos available easily afterward in > perpetuity, integrated within sites that take advantage of rich, per-event > data schemas. > > Would anyone like to join me in trying to plan out the required > functionality and divvy up the coding work? > > Full disclosure: I'm still developing a startup-company concept that could > take advantage of that support. The company is about, basically, a very > simplified IDE for snapping UPO components together, so that people without > programming experience can do it. My idea is that the underlying, > programmer-focused library remains open forever, though. > _______________________________________________ > Ur mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.impredicative.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ur >
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