Hi everyone,
Here are the minutes of the most recent J wiki meeting. Asa you can see we are
starting to shape up some of the tasks that will be involved in creating a wiki
that will be attractive to newcomers as well as useful as a repository of
information.
If any of this interests you, let us know and we will include you in the next
Zoom meeting on December 30, 2021
Cheers, bob
Meeting 3: (12/16/2021)
Attendance: Bob Therriault, Art Anger, Raul Miller , Jonathan Hough, Will Gajate
Near-term goals (targeting end-of-February):
• Introductory J videos (for new users)
• A good example of introductory videos for the q/kdb language
is Jeff Borror's Q KDB videos
• Draft of new front-page (possibly via Redirect)
• New Wiki feature: "Try J" - browser-based J console with labs (Will
G., Jon H., Michael W. to tackle)
• Web-based J Console Demo Joe Bogner, Michael Wallace in the
forums (perhaps we can replicate and update the console to new J version, then
embed in wiki)
• Joe Bogner built browser J console with Web Assembly
• J console server, not ideal for embedding from wiki.
• Blender J Jupyter notebook, takes a 5 minutes to spin up
notebook.
• Can the J labs be incorporated into the "Try J" playground on
the wiki? (Bob T.)
• How best to highlight the ASCII search feature (Advanced Search/Code
Search)? (Bob T.
• Can we use a combination of the Media Wiki search and Chris
Burke's J search?
• Can we include categories in search to allow searching within
specific areas of the wiki?
• What are other languages doing with their wikis. (Raul M.)
• Can we develop an introduction to J for more experienced programmers
as well as beginners? (Art A.)
Questions for further development:
• How best to highlight or categorize essays?
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