On 5/7/14, 0:41, Ivan Andrus wrote:
On May 6, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
On 5/5/14, 14:20, Daniel Bell wrote:
Hi
I am one of the students who was selected for working with Sage for
Google Summer of Code. I will be working on the iOS app. One of the
features I want to implement is the ability to interact with
interact.sagemath.org <http://interact.sagemath.org/top-rated-posts>
Is there an API I can use, or a database I can interact with?
interact.sagemath.org is using Drupal, so I imagine it would be a pretty
standard thing to enable a REST API or something of that sort. Would you like
to take over the website and do that?
I take it from this that you were the maintainer, and it will therefore be
abandoned soon?
One of my students built the site and was the maintainer until our
project was over. I would probably be considered the maintainer now. I
haven't done much with the site recently. I realized that having a
separate, sort of 'heavyweight' site was not as conducive to sharing the
examples as much as I originally thought (not nearly as conducive as,
for example, the published worksheets on sagenb.org). I think somehow
tying the original creation and sharing a lot more closely would be much
better. That's what we had with sagenb.org published worksheets---one
button from creation would share, and one more click would update to the
most recent version. In some sense, we have that with the cell server
too---two clicks from creation give a link you can share. We don't have
the concept of updating a link in the cell server, though. The IPython
notebook viewer has a different take on how to tie together sharing and
creation---content is hosted where ever is convenient, and the viewer
simply makes it easy to interact with that content.
So in general, I think it was a valuable experiment and direction to
explore, but I also think the concept should be rethought and
incorporated more fully in the tools creating the content. If we had
people that could devote part or full-time work to creation and curation
of examples, that might change things, but even in that case you have to
deal with scaling the work.
So I'm not planning on doing much more work upgrading and expanding the
site. That said, if someone else wants to take over it, they are more
than welcome to do so.
Thanks,
Jason
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