an open source version of the tiddlyspot server

[Daniel Baird]

Hi all,

I've got an announcement, some rhetorical questions, and a couple of
REAL questions I'd love to hear answers to. If you get bored, please
scroll to the end where I ask 'em.

The Announcement:
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Imagine if you could just download and unzip some PHP files, and
instantly have a tiddlyspot-type server running behind your corporate
firewall, on your school server, or just on the Mac Mini in the back
of your broom cupboard.

That's the goal of a new project that we kicked off a couple of weeks ago.

I've tried to anticipate some questions below...

Q> What's tiddlyspot anyway?

Simon and I have run a free TiddlyWiki host at tiddlyspot.com for
several years. Tiddlyspot makes it really easy to create and save
TiddlyWikis to the web, using BidiX's UploadPlugin and a smattering of
sweet, sweet Ruby goodness. Try it out at http://tiddlyspot.com if
you want to see how it works.

Q> *We* kicked off a project? Who's *we*?

Well, Simon and I have wanted to clean up and open source tiddlyspot's
server code for a while, but haven't really had time. Then recently
friend and colleague Robert (known locally as The Amazing Rob)
mentioned that he was looking for an open source project to get into.
Sha-bam!

Q> Why PHP?

Much as we love Ruby, we figure it's still a little dicey getting Ruby
code to work on free and low cost web hosts. PHP on the other hand
seems to be supported everywhere, and it's a major goal to make the
thing install and run with a minimum of messing about. So PHP it is.

Q> Easy-to-deploy huh. Any other "major" goals?

- Easy to deploy. Ideally setup-free -- unzip, then browse there.
- Easy to understand. TW goes in, TW goes out. I'd love to fix the
simultaneous edit problem, that's pretty confusing. Might be out of
scope here though :)
- Easy to create sites. Like tiddlyspot, or better. Plus support for
uploading an existing TW.
- Easy to enhance. We imagine fancy backup arrangements, printable
PDFs for your GTD lists, etc. might all exist as things you can just
dump into the addon directory.
- I can't think of any more, but we'll keep you posted...

Q> What stage is it at?

Early. Robert has the basic site creation and hosting working. Still
to come is the selection of site flavour, theming & branding, getting
UploadTiddler working and tested, site and server control panels,
fancy backups, and whatever other stuff comes up.

Q> I've got some time to kill right now. Got something to look at?

We don't have a working site to fiddle on yet, but the code's here:
http://github.com/brimstone4814/tiddly-speck/tree/master

You don't need git to grab it; just click the 'download' button to get
the source as a zip. Dump it into an Apache directory and see what
happens when you hit index.html.

Q> What's the volume of a pizza with radius of z, and depth of a?

pi z z a (an old joke but a good one).

The Questions
=============

There's a few pressing issues I'd love some advice on.

Licencing:
BSD? GPL? Maybe LGPL? I have a vague sense of the difference
between these, but I have no idea what the real ramifications are of
each. Will GPL get in the way of corporate use, even just
psychologically? And I'd like to allow some kind of plugin
arrangement that permits non-open source addons. Any advice?

Naming:
Currently we're calling it TiddlySpeck, but actually I'd love to think
of a name that's not related to tiddlyspot, and maybe doesn't even
include the word "tiddly". Or is that blasphemous?

I'd love to hear your opinions. I expect Robert will be along in a
little bit to introduce himself.

Cheers
;Daniel

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[Daniel Baird]

Amazing Rob changed his github name from brimstone4814 to his real name (well, his real name is "Amazing Rob", but he's gone with RobertPyke in this case).  So what's at https://github.com/robertpyke/tiddly-speck is the most recent state of the tiddly-speck project.

Even if it's working, though, it may not have features you want.  If you want to clone it and have a go at finishing it off, that's completely okay with us...

Cheers

Daniel

 

On 21 August 2015 at 22:19, Atul Grover <atulg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Daniel,

Does the code at

https://github.com/robertpyke/tiddly-speck

works. There is 'page not found' at

http://github.com/brimstone4814/tiddly-speck/tree/master

Regards 

Atul

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