notes from 2010 Q3 board meeting
Joe Corneli
Call-in details: +1 (805) 360-1000, 759836 #
Agenda:
* the meeting will be recorded, download info or mp3 to be provided
after the meeting
[Edit: Recording of the meeting is available at
http://metameso.org/~joe/pm/pm-q3-2010.mp3 (28M).]
* brief catch-up (how are folks doing)
* finances
* Joe-led development in Europe (Joe)
* Details on my plans are available at
http://metameso.org/~joe/docs/probation-report-draft.pdf (including
Alexa stuff)
* "Planetary" Developer information is available at
http://trac.mathweb.org/planetary (including milestones)
* SVN with code ...
* Springer transition (Aaron)
* "Noosphere 1.5" system migration (Aaron)
* Board elections/recruitment
Catch-up
Ph. D.
i/e heavy industries
springer (sans james but with contractors)
re-sorting for autumn
Joe development stuff / "Planetary"
- see http://planetmath.mathweb.org/ and there are other examples as well
- Michael Kohlhase Jacobs University, KWARC group http://kwarc.info
is actually leading development of "planetary"
- deploying for a course he is teaching
- light-to-medium semantic markup-capable prominent on agenda
- have stack of software developed over last decade, planning to
plug-in-to/re-use for Planetary
- shooting to get Planetary "clone" of PM done by January (will be
Joe's focus from November/December)
- PHP-based, the core is Vanilla Forums + LaTeXML
- Vanilla : plug-in architecture, very popular with robust F/OSS community
- pedagogical purpose: teach people how to make features they want
- FF only for now, can be expanded to
- http://vanillaforums.org/ for basic info about the platform
- http://vanillaforums.org/discussions (running their version of their
own forum of course)
Springer transition
- James migrated to "guru" role
- transitioning Springer-driven development/bugfixing to MPS
(India-based consultants)
- working on setting up SVNs with proper forking so we can move code
between Springer dev/Springer Production/PM dev+production
- http://statprob.com/ plus a development instance getting started
- e.g. http://statprob.com/encyclopedia/ClusterProcesses.html to see
how they handle mathematics display; no autolinks?
- search engine plugin was developed as last major Noosphere
enhancement for Springer
- Aaron will probably be primarily occupied with this transition for
the next 1-2 months
"Noosphere 1.5" + PlanetMath/Planetary transition
- quality of the user experience in the short term (e.g. make images
the default instead of jsMath -- later we will have many multiple
rendering modes)
- Joe happy to teach as he learns :)
- "backend" development of modules like NNexus and Search,
command-line client still quite relevant
- "life cycle" notification: orphaning, corrections/changes by
others, etc -- remains to be done, and decisions about how to do it
remain as well! (writing from another client raises issues)
- January would be a good time to demo an alpha or beta version of the "clone"
- future bits: forked articles?
Finances/Spending plans?
- $1167 in bank
- $248 in paypal
- luckily most development work going on now is "paid for" (Springer or KWARC)
- is money useful for membership + community development tasks?
- 2010: roll-out and membership drive etc.
- Noosphere 1.5 as current PM instance (should be done BEFORE jan)
- Planetary as "next generation" -- to roll out in parallel in a way
that won't disrupt the current workflow on planetmath.org
- use the hoopla for fundraising/interest-generating
- Ray will work on membership stuff @ a few hours per week,
compensation possible
- spend money on posters, facebook stuff?
- sometimes next year: outreach to MathOverflow and so on
Board Elections/recruitment
- maybe Michael would want to be on the board?
- maybe Johnathan Fine...
- maybe Anton Gerashenko?
- deal with the transparency issues soon (how frequently are board
elections done... supposed to be every other year) at least; all this
to be done by January
- Cf. http://wiki.planetmath.org/AsteroidMeta/PMByLaws
Closing
- Facebook et al. integration with PlanetMath platform?
- Joe forgot to give an update on P2PU involvement.
- "P2PU's fundamental goal is to enable learning for everyone, by
everyone, about almost anything."