Hi! On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 3:07 PM buj <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I am interested in contributing to the project, mainly the atomspace part > of it. I believe I will be just fine with all the documentation and wiki. > However, as I am new, it would be good if I could "check my understanding" > of something before I make significant changes to documentation (changes to > code are of less concern, as there are pull requests and stuff and it is > well organized). Where would be the right place to ask such (possibly, but > not necessarily petty) questions? There is no channel on slack dedicated to > atomspace. The wiki discussion pages... are not particularly well suited > for discussion. > The mailing list is fine. That is, I pay attention to it :-) So ... here's the status, as I see it. -- I think the documentation as-such is adequate; it explains most things. -- BUT what is missing is a slick, impressive modern website explaining what the atomspace is, and containing demos/how-tos that are actually useful for real-life users who wandered in randomly off the net. -- This lack is the #1 killer of the popularity of the atomspace: everyone seems to look at it, got WTF? and then leave... we haven't figured out how to give it a front-door that is easy to walk through, and a reception room that isn't a total chaos of obscure database and knowlege-representation theory. The cognitive overload is too high... Code is in a similar state. -- It is mostly "done". There's a handful of "beginner bugs" that could be fixed, but after that, its more-or-less code-complete. -- There are a large number (a dozen or so) big, complex, rambling ideas for deep and fundamental new features to be added. But these are really far away from "newbie"; they require difficult thinking and difficult planning, and lots of prototyping, and the expectation that the first three prototypes will be total failures. I mean, -- they are hard even if you're a long timer. Examples -- I think the current examples are "adequate" -- HOWEVER ... almost none of them are relevant to any kind of joe-average database shopper. If the hypothetical joe-average has fooled with any of the dozen(s) of graph databases out there, and then they look at the atomspace, they will go WTF? and just leave. We don't have any compelling examples that show why the atomspace is better than e.g. grakn.ai or tinkerpop. (it is, we just don't have those demos) Whatever. If you're thinking of big changes to the wiki, let me know. -- Linas -- cassette tapes - analog TV - film cameras - you -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CAHrUA37rfJ1-%3Du0COgtF_v8S%3DVhfmA5TKMA4zTOpru97H6EuFQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
