OpenVirgle Code project update
Paul D. Fernhout
http://code.google.com/p/openvirgle/
As I said before, it seems the energy here has mostly moved to the Open
Manufacturing list for now.
All my own recent coding efforts have been focused on the Pointrel Social
Semantic Desktop which is based on the same RDF-like triple ideas that were
checked in to OpenVirgle as Jython code, but in a more general and
socially-oriented way:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/
That SourceForge project has new code in SVN in Java for small workgroups to
share semantic information, but it is not packaged yet in an easy to use
way, and does not have enough applications to be useable except by a
developer. Hopefully as I make progress on that I will provide another
announcement here. Then, hopefully, some space habitation related
collaboration could be built on top of that.
One reason I am focusing on this is the issue Doram raised about wanting a
better way to communicate than email (he suggested a web forum that allows
moderation or tagging, what I am working on could be seen as a sort of
hybrid between email and web forums, but with other features. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_desktop
"In computer science, the Semantic Desktop is a collective term for ideas
related to changing a computer's user interface and data handling
capabilities so that data is more easily shared between different
applications or tasks and so that data that once could not be automatically
processed by a computer could be. It also encompasses some ideas about being
able to automatically share information between different people. This
concept is very much related to the Semantic Web but is distinct insofar its
main concern is the personal use of information."
I took this opportunity to remove anyone from that code project who has not
made a change to the wiki or provided feedback on the code, which leaves
Doram, Mike, and me on thath project. If there was a reason for someone to
be on it, I can add people again of course.
--Paul Fernhout