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Charles Cossé
Aug 6, 2017, 4:08:10 AM8/6/17
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David Bucknell
Aug 7, 2017, 8:14:06 AM8/7/17
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Excellent, Charles. What's the next step?
DavidOn Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Charles Cossé <cco...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Charles Cossé
Aug 8, 2017, 11:07:52 AM8/8/17
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Well, maintaining our current momentum should be easy, so long as we don't try to divide by it or anything :)
Let's see ... it (the project) is not dead yet, for starters. We went to PyCon, everyone thought it was a good idea and several people wanted one. But we have not yet built a community ... many of the reasons being self-evident, i.e. complex pitch, still only 1/4-baked, lack of ported activities ... etc. So I pondered the landscape for a while, sought inspiration from a book (Originals by Adam Grant), and half-heartedly reached-out to a couple more free-software communities. I say "half-heartedly" because I spent a lot of energy in the past trying to get FSF and Richard Stallman, personally, onboard and on-the-record as endorsing the credit-meter-ecosystem idea as a means to generate Edu-FLS, but without the success I was after. So there is an ongoing need to "reach-out", of course, but running such campaigns/conversations takes energy from other efforts.
So I located the biggest rabbit-hole(s) I could find and jumped-in: re-adding animated penguins to TuxMathScrabble web app, re-developing TuxMathScrabble entirely in D3js, re-developing ColorMyWorld entirely in D3js, re-developing (and expanding) a network surveillance tool in D3js ... basically I've been trying to master D3js. With success! Software development lately has been like: "Roll in the gurney with the next D3js example. Cut-it-up into parts and apply those various parts to various projects under-way."
I'm working on two projects right now: A re-branded TuxMathScrabble, GIS software and a cyber-security tool, all implemented entirely with D3js (no jquery, no bootstrap, no other deps). The new game, in particular, is the hold-up before I resume "reaching-out" with respect to this project. My thinking is to have a good new product to attract attention to the NetDispenser project. I'm building the game into the NetDispenser, by default. It's just a javascript webapp, but the concept of earning credits is present in the design from the outset. Here is a video of the penguin animation framework I developed so far: https://youtu.be/QvoN77mIcQU I'm still planning to make it more lively ala Sonny-the Cuckoo Bird (Cocoa Puffs commercials). It should all be complete soon.
So does that sound like a plan, or what? (semi-sarcasm) We have a working prototype. We've got a procedure for easily integrating any Edu-Web-App out there by wrapping in an iFrame. Other things, like figuring out banking to pay developers, have pending ideas which need to be explored, i.e. Patreon and the like. I claim to have a cool new game coming which planning to use to promote NetDispenser. My game diversion might not be the obvious fastest route to community building, I realize, but now is a good opportunity to implement animated graphics in D3 and thus learn D3 at the same time.
Let's see ... it (the project) is not dead yet, for starters. We went to PyCon, everyone thought it was a good idea and several people wanted one. But we have not yet built a community ... many of the reasons being self-evident, i.e. complex pitch, still only 1/4-baked, lack of ported activities ... etc. So I pondered the landscape for a while, sought inspiration from a book (Originals by Adam Grant), and half-heartedly reached-out to a couple more free-software communities. I say "half-heartedly" because I spent a lot of energy in the past trying to get FSF and Richard Stallman, personally, onboard and on-the-record as endorsing the credit-meter-ecosystem idea as a means to generate Edu-FLS, but without the success I was after. So there is an ongoing need to "reach-out", of course, but running such campaigns/conversations takes energy from other efforts.
So I located the biggest rabbit-hole(s) I could find and jumped-in: re-adding animated penguins to TuxMathScrabble web app, re-developing TuxMathScrabble entirely in D3js, re-developing ColorMyWorld entirely in D3js, re-developing (and expanding) a network surveillance tool in D3js ... basically I've been trying to master D3js. With success! Software development lately has been like: "Roll in the gurney with the next D3js example. Cut-it-up into parts and apply those various parts to various projects under-way."
I'm working on two projects right now: A re-branded TuxMathScrabble, GIS software and a cyber-security tool, all implemented entirely with D3js (no jquery, no bootstrap, no other deps). The new game, in particular, is the hold-up before I resume "reaching-out" with respect to this project. My thinking is to have a good new product to attract attention to the NetDispenser project. I'm building the game into the NetDispenser, by default. It's just a javascript webapp, but the concept of earning credits is present in the design from the outset. Here is a video of the penguin animation framework I developed so far: https://youtu.be/QvoN77mIcQU I'm still planning to make it more lively ala Sonny-the Cuckoo Bird (Cocoa Puffs commercials). It should all be complete soon.
So does that sound like a plan, or what? (semi-sarcasm) We have a working prototype. We've got a procedure for easily integrating any Edu-Web-App out there by wrapping in an iFrame. Other things, like figuring out banking to pay developers, have pending ideas which need to be explored, i.e. Patreon and the like. I claim to have a cool new game coming which planning to use to promote NetDispenser. My game diversion might not be the obvious fastest route to community building, I realize, but now is a good opportunity to implement animated graphics in D3 and thus learn D3 at the same time.
On Monday, August 7, 2017 at 6:14:06 AM UTC-6, David Bucknell wrote:
Excellent, Charles. What's the next step?
For me, find my way out of the rabbit-holes I've entered (TuxMathScabble, Cyber-security tool, GIS projects) and emerge with a host of new products and capabilities. Then wrap a bunch of other people's webapps, write to them and explain that we're investigating if possible to make money (them) this way, and basically start talking-it-up again.
I am open to advice here, and there is some time for strategic planning. Your thoughts, anyone?
-Charles
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