Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Yes, you are right on the money. The information is there but it's not objectively confrontable like numbers would be. Yes, I admit that the 'sticky node' feature was added because I was curious to play 'community battles' between different people and see how the community reacted.Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: >. . .No, I'm very concerned about the abuses that this software might receive, like "I'm more important than you" based on positional location.>. . .
I think this kind of information is already present in the current version, even if less obvious: dragging a point far away from the current cloud and watching how many others follow gives a good feel of the influence (as perceived by Agora) of a person in the community.
I expect people to realize how 'forking' is dangerous by realizing how much impact even a single major committer leaving will generate in the community.
My dream use would be to run the harvester and generate the datacloud of the entire foundation. Then use nagoya to render it and save a snapshot of its evolution, then make a movie of it and keep the new messages adding new links... like a webcam on the 'status of the foundation'... would be terribly cool, even if terribly slow... anybody has a few teraflops that I can borrow? :)Great piece of software, by the way! Helps get a feel for the kind of community relationships that exist.
ok, the wildest dream would be to write a distributed computing environment a-la seti@home and have all apache friends run it to help the foundation process its own map.... but that's something for the future :)
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