I'm glad to see the interest from Daniel and Simon! Here's my latest
demo application
<https://github.com/achlipala/upo/blob/master/examples/onlineconf.ur>,
which also uses the Ur/Web World library
<https://github.com/urweb/world> for Google and Zoom integration, plus
the Mail library <https://github.com/urweb/email>. On the near-term
to-do list is also showing off some Slack integration.
I'm curious if anyone else can figure out how to build and run that
demo. >:)
I encourage folks who like the general idea to give it a try and then
contact me privately about how it goes.
On 3/21/20 3:29 AM, Daniel Tornabene wrote:
I'm interested. I haven't used Urweb but I love standard ML, so my
contributions would be perhaps less immediate as others more familiar
with the codebase
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:47 PM Adam Chlipala <ad...@csail.mit.edu
<mailto:ad...@csail.mit.edu>> wrote:
Some of you may remember the Ur/Web People Organizer (UPO) library
<http://upo.csail.mit.edu/> that I've mentioned a few times. It's
an Ur/Web component library for rapid creation of applications to
organize people -- a pretty broad remit. It uses a lot of
metaprogramming to write your application for you based on your
database schema.
Suddenly an important variant of coordinating people is running a
virtual event. For instance, many planned conferences have moved
to online substitutes, on short notice. Events often have subtle
differences from each other while sharing many logistical elements.
I wonder what interest there is out there in developing enough new
UPO components to support virtual events. For instance, I think
it needs good ways to interact with video-conferencing software to
livestream talks with Q&A, and to make the recorded videos
available easily afterward in perpetuity, integrated within sites
that take advantage of rich, per-event data schemas.
Would anyone like to join me in trying to plan out the required
functionality and divvy up the coding work?
Full disclosure: I'm still developing a startup-company concept
that could take advantage of that support. The company is about,
basically, a very simplified IDE for snapping UPO components
together, so that people without programming experience can do
it. My idea is that the underlying, programmer-focused library
remains open forever, though.
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