On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:59 PM, David McNab wrote:

> I'm writing now to ask what the thinking is regarding getting a 
cloud-ready version of Leo up and running.

As Ville says, this is a perennial topic.  And for good reason.  This is 
one of those "big questions" that it would be useful to discuss at length 
at the Leo sprint.

Another topic is best workflow practices.  Kent and I are interested in 
looking over Terry's shoulder for awhile :-)

I would also like to discuss data base ideas.

> Leo in the browser - here, it's well worth looking at the excellent 
Checkvist cloud-based outliner at www.checkvist.com. It's got some great 
cloud ideas Leo could borrow. 

I agree.  It's impressive.

> It's just a matter of whether Python in-browser frameworks like Pyjamas 
are up to the job, versus how hard it would be to implement Leo in 
<brain-haemorrhage>Javascript</brain-haemorrhage>

CoffeeScript, http://coffeescript.org/, is the proper way to program in 
JavaScript.  It should not cause any brains to explode.  Importantly, there 
are tools that will convert JavaScript to CoffeeScript.  I would want to do 
this conversion before studying existing code.

Having said this, programming directly in CoffeeScript looks like an 
"heroic" approach.  Checkvist proves that such an approach is possible.  
Perhaps someone could convert Checkvist to CoffeeScript automatically, and 
then relatively easily move on to Leo.  But unless somebody in the Leo 
community actually has a *lot* of time on their hands, basing a project on 
CoffeeScript isn't likely to make much headway. 

This leaves us with the question of in-browser frameworks.  I haven't paid 
any attention to this important topic.  I imagine that there has been 
continuous incremental (or revolutionary) progress since last we looked 
around.  I would like to explore the possibilities at the Leo sprint.

These are just my thoughts.  Feel free to suggest new ideas here, or to 
bring up new topics at the sprint.  There won't be any formal agenda.

Edward

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