David, Awesome! Great idea and I hope to participate. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org
> On Nov 3, 2015, at 8:01 AM, David Bovill <[email protected]> wrote: > > Except we'll use a different name, and different technology. > > If any of you remember LivCode TV it was a free community project we > started a couple of years back to live stream coding sessions. Since then a > huge amount of things have happened and I feel it is time we restart this > project full of the new juicy open source goodies at our disposal. > > I've spend a while experimenting with new techniques in terms of screen > casting, Hangouts on Air, mumble servers, and forms of documenting and > screen-casting open source coding projects, and I'm really looking forwards > to the Livecode TV's new season :) > > *What's the Focus?* > The aim of the project is to give a space for the community to have fun > researching and building projects together. A particular focus is the > creation of open source libraries of general use to the community. > > If you have an open source project or library that you are working on, or > would simply like to start working on with other people, get in touch on > this thread, or off-list. > > *Principles and structure* > All the projects we cover will be free culture > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_culture_movement>. > > - Code projects we work on will be hosted on GitHub - they must be open > source. > - Project documentation will be Creative Commons licensed so that it is > compatible with Wikipedia and other free culture archives. > - Authors get accreditation for their code and their work. > - Everyone will get their own writing and research space online > - We will integrate time and bitcoin donations to community projects and > individual teachers. > - We work, code and research together asynchronously and with regular > Happenings where we get together online or in physical space. > - Small groups are good. 3-5 people working together can get a lot done. > We are more interested in researching and making together than marketing. > > > *Kick Off Event* > We'll be starting and announcing this project at MozFest > <https://2015.mozillafestival.org/> this coming weekend. If you are in > London drop by and see us in the Science Strand. And I'll be following this > up with a series of weekly events based around some open source code and > libraries that I hope will be of general use to the community. > > *Technology* > We are working closely with a number of great open source projects, and are > not restricting what we do purely to Livecode. We are also interested in > projects and code bases that play well with Livecode. One of these is > Federated > Wiki <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallest_Federated_Wiki> - > http://www.wired.com/2012/07/wiki-inventor/ > > Federated Wiki is a social architecture in which every writer has their own > personal writing space (wiki) but is able to share data, code and content > with other people by forking pages, or dragging and dropping content from > one site to another. You keep your own research notes, but you share them > with other people with automatic Creative Commons attribution and full > revision history. > > We have an early stage server and client implementation of Fedwiki in > LiveCode, and we will be building on this project to integrate it with a > number of other important technologies that provide robust API's (Github, > Wikipedia, Slack, Gitter, IPFS, Ethereum and other Blockchain technologies). > > Starting next week we'll be looking at oAuth, Twitter and Facebook API's - > and anything else people on this list suggest as interesting. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
