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BrianH 27-Feb-2013 [1485x4] | Unless you worked for Qtask in 2008 and met me at the company meeting in December, then no. The only other people in the community who have met me in person are my own recruits. I've talked to Carl and Bo on the phone though. |
(not recently though) | |
Right at the point when it became appropriate for me to go to devcons, they stopped holding them in USA and I stopped having the money to travel outside USA. So unless my financial situation changes, or someone sponsors me, or visits me, then noone will meet me | |
...in person (AltME flaked on me). I am working on improving my financials though. | |
james_nak 28-Feb-2013 [1489] | Robert and Cyphere - Thank you so much for the Android version! |
Cyphre 28-Feb-2013 [1490x4] | James, you are welcome ;) |
BTW Carl restarted the "R3 chat" server so you can just type: "chat" in the Android console and leave message here. | |
With the latest Android version it is nice to try type: HELP in the chat input prompt to see the BROWSE works nicely ;) | |
also you can type LB to get the messages content into browser but there is small glitch in the local file URL handling so you need to correct the URL string in the browser to see the messages. Will be fixed in next release. | |
Endo 28-Feb-2013 [1494] | That's cool! :) |
NickA 28-Feb-2013 [1495x2] | I believe that R3 Chat would be the PERFECT solution for REBOL communications, if we could build a more mature HTML front end. Will Carl release the source? |
Or should the community work on reverse engineering and building our own drop-in chat solution? | |
AdrianS 28-Feb-2013 [1497x2] | It's been asked a few times already. He always ignores the question, it seems. |
Almost looks deliberate. | |
NickA 28-Feb-2013 [1499] | I'd sponsor work on engineering a new chat system. |
AdrianS 28-Feb-2013 [1500] | But I agree that a 'built-in' way to gather the community is key. |
NickA 28-Feb-2013 [1501] | Copy what it does - it's not that complex. Anyone wanna make a few extra bucks? |
AdrianS 28-Feb-2013 [1502x2] | I think some people around here had volunteered with the condition of someone sponsoring the effort. |
It seems a shame though, given that the code exists. | |
NickA 28-Feb-2013 [1504] | I'm past that now - R2 code exists, but we'll never get it. Let's move on and make all new contributions permanent. |
AdrianS 28-Feb-2013 [1505] | Maybe BrianH would consider this. R3 could be fixed up as needed along the way. |
NickA 28-Feb-2013 [1506x2] | How much do we need to get chat going? |
Money, I mean. | |
AdrianS 28-Feb-2013 [1508x2] | I guess it depends on the specs. |
What already existed in R3 chat? | |
NickA 28-Feb-2013 [1510x2] | http://www.rebol.com/r3/chat.r |
That's what we see with "source chat" in R3 | |
AdrianS 28-Feb-2013 [1512x4] | The thing is that a more widely useful chat/collaboration feature implies a very good UI. That's not something that we have too many people capable of at the moment. |
That is just the front end. | |
Nick, did you see my post here of a few days ago on Algodoo? | |
There's a reason for me asking... | |
NickA 28-Feb-2013 [1516x3] | Yep, I looked at it briefly. Definitely a cool addition to the sorts of "modern" things Doc and other have been looking at. |
REBOL and Red needs any sort of "sparkle" possible to make people take a look. | |
What's your reason? | |
AdrianS 28-Feb-2013 [1519x4] | Well, my greater point with it is its involvement in education. Your chat just now, with Scot and James, made me think some more about it. |
They, Algoryx, already seem to have a pretty good foothold in education. | |
Promoting Rebol to them, along with a chat/collaboration feature, just makes sense, both for them and for Rebol. | |
or Red for that matter, but it's not quite there yet. | |
NickA 28-Feb-2013 [1523] | You should take a look at what Scot has been saying tonight... |
AdrianS 28-Feb-2013 [1524x2] | I'm thinking that maybe approaching them with the benefits of using Rebol as the buil-in scripting language with the possibility of sponsoring the chat/collaborative features, might be attractive. |
I read all that. It's what made me think this is a good idea, even more than before. | |
james_nak 28-Feb-2013 [1526x2] | From what I have observed, and what Scot was saying, is that we need something that is already built but which allows educators to educate. |
The number of teachers I know that actually can code is quite small. | |
NickA 28-Feb-2013 [1528] | That's Scot's idea, but attracting more people to writing REBOL code, in any way, is a good thing. |
james_nak 28-Feb-2013 [1529] | Yes, I agree. |
NickA 28-Feb-2013 [1530] | I like the idea of Algodoo, just because it's got some "flashy"ness |
AdrianS 28-Feb-2013 [1531x2] | If you see the amount of scripting that's been done for Algodoo, you'd be impressed - and that language has nowhere near Rebol's strengths. |
So, what I'm saying is that given a stimulating environment, like Algodoo, for example, people will code quite a lot. | |
NickA 28-Feb-2013 [1533] | Is it possible to integrate REBOL as a scripting language, without too much trouble? |
AdrianS 28-Feb-2013 [1534] | Couldn't tell you, but in an indirect way, I would think that Rebol would be easier to do than quite a few other languages. This is because the current scripting language, Thyme, is very much Lua-like. |
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