On 12/05/2011 15:32, Scott Wilson wrote:
Just a quick note to say I visited the Knowledge Media Institute (KMI) at the Open University earlier this week to record a lecture, and also had an opportunity to spend some time talking Wookie development with Thomas and Lukas, who have done some interesting stuff with Wookie for their projects involving LSA and all kinds of other goodies, including an enhanced Elgg plugin using the PHP connector framework.
Where is the code for this? I just moved the connector documentation across to the new CMS, I'd like to make sure we are linking to this "enhanced Elgg plugin".
Furthermore, in what way is it enhanced? The PHP connector is not fully functional, are there any enhancements to our framework code? If so can we have it please?
Anyway, I know they are both reading this so hope they can share with the community some of the extensions they've made to Wookie :-)
Please, pretty please ;-)
While I was there we also had chance to talk about the whole area of widget stores: things like searching, tagging, reviews and ratings. We've mostly kept away from that kind of functionality within the Wookie core (except for services, which are basically tags, and which don't feel quite right), but its come up in several places now. Should we look at developing a "white label app store" over the top of (one or more) Wookie/Shindig servers as a separate project? Or would it fit better in Rave?
Personally I think this should be a separate project in the sense that it should be able to run independently of both Wookie and Rave. Given that we seem to be in agreement that Wookie should not have GUI code this means the right home for the GUI would be Rave.
However, I'd like to see the app store, with REST API, here in Wookie (as a separate code base).
If we do this then we have low level facilities here in Wookie and high level GUI features in Rave. Our connector frameworks will allow other platforms to build GUIs for Wookie + Wookie App Store.
Ross
