Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-10 Thread Thomas Wrobel
" The thing I'm most nervous about is client side work" My hunch is, provided that there is a good client/server protocol standard, documented. (and maybe with an example interface library in any language), clients will spring up quick quickly. Not sure you would get any fully featured wizz-bang w

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-10 Thread Joseph Gentle
I've probably invested about $100k worth of time into ShareJS at this point (much of that paid for by different employers). It is reasonably stable and scalable across multiple backend machines. It supports queries with results which update in realtime. I'm currently dependant on redis multi-machin

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-10 Thread John Blossom
Thanks, Kirill, I look forward to seeing the results! All the best, John Blossom email: jblos...@gmail.com phone: 203.293.8511 google+: google.com/+JohnBlossom On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Kirill Kostyuchenko wrote: > Hello all, > > We still working hard on wave in our company and I can

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-10 Thread Kirill Kostyuchenko
Hello all, We still working hard on wave in our company and I can say for sure, production ready, scalable wave service will cost more, than $100k. Just because we already spent more than half. P2P and crypted protocol are really dreams. Andrew Kaplanov have done completely new protocol with reco

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-10 Thread Upayavira
In case it helps: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-month-of-apache-tapestry-5 A successful, if smaller kickstarter style campaign. May help you visualise what your 'give backs' and suggested donation sizes might be. Note that this took place within an Apache framework without issues, so it ca

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-05 Thread John Blossom
And let's bear in mind NSA-resistant not just by virtue of good data and communications bits but also my means of being able to communicate with or without the public Internet. If everyone is a network node for some portion of a collaborative data set that can be exposed in various levels of permis

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-05 Thread John Blossom
Joseph, You may be right, one platform can't do everything, but I am hopeful that we can get a platform with a 1) data model 2) communications/syncing model and 3) and apps development model that can accommodate the goals for my Nkommo project. We start by walking, suss it out and then move on. If

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-05 Thread Thomas Wrobel
oh, absolutely. I didn't mean to imply it was that simple, or that was enough by itself. Merely, over the systems already in use, wave already has a strong advantage. ~~~ Thomas & Bertines online review show: http://randomreviewshow.com/index.html Try it! You might even feel ambivalent about it

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-05 Thread Ali Lown
Thomas, There is more to the security, than simply decentralization. We had had discussions in the past (on the IRC, not sure if it got to this list) about how best to encrypt/sign deltas of each user (by giving each user their own keys) in such a way that the whole wave can be read/edited by par

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-05 Thread Thomas Wrobel
"nsa-resistant*" Thats absolutely a good plus point in this day and age. Its wouldn't be "proof" by decentralization but certainly makes things more resistant. The idea of a federated protocol that lets people selectively share stuff with others is going to be harder to spy on (on mass) then a nic

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Gonzalez (aka stenyak)
This can be a good idea, and I agree with the general design and goals of your project. I'm not sure whether this should be a replacement for WiaB, or just a parallel project that can evolve side-by-side, but if you go forward with it, we'd just have to wait and see how users and possible contribu

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-04 Thread Joseph Gentle
Will do. As I said, I don't anticipate starting the kickstarter for about a year, though I want to do preliminary work (prototyping out some of the protocols and such) now. John I agree that (1) and (2) are the most interesting parts. But I'm not sure that this is the right tool to build *everythi

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-04 Thread John Blossom
Joseph, Thanks for chiming in. I'd be interested in getting crowdsourced financing for this also. We don't have a major corporation funding our lifestyles to enable such work, so we need something. I am in general agreement with your overall plan, though as I've stated before, once you have 1) an

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-03 Thread Upayavira
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013, at 05:35 PM, Joseph Gentle wrote: > On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Christian Grobmeier > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 1 Dec 2013, at 19:24, Joseph Gentle wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Ali Lown wrote: > >>> My only worry with a KS is how do we market it? As beyo

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-02 Thread Fleeky Flanco
the beauty of joseph trying to do a kickstarter to essentially restart development on a 'spiritual' successor to wave is actually wave could still stay in asf, as a legacy fallback option. i feel like joseph manning up and really trying to set some real focus to his own coding goals will be a win-

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-02 Thread Joseph Gentle
In defence of the team, it always takes awhile to figure out what the best way to modularize a software project is when you're implementing a new idea. The right abstractions always seem obvious in retrospect, but until you've thought about it a lot its not obvious at all. For example, moving from

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-02 Thread Joseph Gentle
... Not to mention that I'm not completely convinced that I want to deliver the actual email-like client as part of the project. The thing that excites me is the platform that people can build collaborative tools & systems on top of. I will probably change the name too. From my original post above

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-02 Thread Thomas Wrobel
Assuming the protocol still maintains waves ability's; *open *federated *selective sharing (that is, sharing X with just a few people) *realtime Wave should be the name given to the server to server protocol, imho, but not much else. Google made the mistake of calling everything wave. The server to

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-02 Thread Patrick Coleman
The proposal seems to include rewriting the OT stack, changing the language(s) the client and server are written in, and moving to github. If this is the case, is there any point in still being called Wave? It sounds like not much will be able to be transferred other than knowledge, so is there an

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-02 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On 2 Dec 2013, at 18:35, Joseph Gentle wrote: On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: That all being said, with all the new ideas and hope I would say we should postpone the "go to github discussion" a little more. I think ppl will support some ASF Wave more than a "random

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-02 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Matthew: send an empty mail to: wave-dev-unsubcr...@incubator.apache.org and follow the instructions then On 2 Dec 2013, at 18:37, Matthew Murphy wrote: I’ve been getting these emails for awhile now and none of them are really relevant to me. I am not a developer just an end user, How do I

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-02 Thread Matthew Murphy
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Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-02 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > Hi, > > On 1 Dec 2013, at 19:24, Joseph Gentle wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Ali Lown wrote: >>> My only worry with a KS is how do we market it? As beyond putting it >>> on Hacker News, explaining an P2P OT-backend communic

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-01 Thread Thomas Wrobel
> > > > That said, I pretty much agree with everything else. > > I would suggest, however, you need a few people ready to work on specific > > goals for a specific amount. And what can be achieved is kept very clear. > > Unfortunately no one will understand a kickstarter talking about OT. (or, > >

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-01 Thread Thomas Wrobel
Ah, so your not planning to write the server in Java anymore? your starting from complete scratch? fair enough then - that does lose one of the main plus points of GWT indeed. (although, regarding Scala; That is basically Java in terms of sharing). If its javascript each side though, yes, that woul

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-01 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hi, On 1 Dec 2013, at 19:24, Joseph Gentle wrote: > On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Ali Lown wrote: >> My only worry with a KS is how do we market it? As beyond putting it >> on Hacker News, explaining an P2P OT-backend communication system is >> likely to confuse (if not discourage) potential ba

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-01 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Ali Lown wrote: >> I want arbitrary JSON documents, or arbitrary embedding like we talked >> about a few months ago. >> I want a protocol based on real P2P algorithms rather than the hacky >> mess we have at the moment with trees of servers connecting via an >> XMPP

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-01 Thread Zachary Yaro
@Thomas, if you like Java and GWT, you are in luck because there is already a wave project using those (I refer, of course, to WIAB). I think having Joseph's project be done in pure JavaScript (and I do prefer writing my JS directly rather than using another language that “compiles” into JS) is a

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-01 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Thomas Wrobel wrote: > " I still want a web client, but it should be > written in pure javascript." > > GWT is already pure javascript. Writing "Directly" rather then via Java > doesn't give any real advantages in the end result - it just means you rule > out code s

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-01 Thread Ali Lown
Joseph, > So I've spent the last month thinking about running a kickstarter to > fund the work. Christian's email was really timely. I had wondered this as well, a while back - but I didn't know anyone who would be available to actually do it... (I had hoped that the FundWIAB thing which showed u

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-12-01 Thread Thomas Wrobel
" I still want a web client, but it should be written in pure javascript." GWT is already pure javascript. Writing "Directly" rather then via Java doesn't give any real advantages in the end result - it just means you rule out code sharing between client and server, an give yourself more work in t

Re: Wave Kickstarter

2013-11-30 Thread Angus Turner
That's actually a really good idea. Id be happy to help out with organising. It sounds perfect for Wave, as there's tonnes of interest but not much programming ability. I would be interested in helping out with the actual programming but my expertise is in python not Java. On Sunday, 1 December

Wave Kickstarter

2013-11-30 Thread Joseph Gentle
I still really want to make the wave platform we've been talking about for awhile. I just don't have any time because I need to work to eat. So I've spent the last month thinking about running a kickstarter to fund the work. Christian's email was really timely. I want arbitrary JSON documents, o