Thanks for the comment Jonathan, Yes, we've discussed using a social networking system and are leaning toward opensocial right now because there are a number of projects in the humanities (members of interedition) who have built useful tools in disparate technologies who would like to collaborate.
Here is a sample opensocial container showing pub/sub functionality between a client gadget and our image viewer as a gadget: http://community.crosswire.org/viewer.html http://crosswire.org/svn/community/trunk/webapp/viewer.html You'll see the source is very minimal and allows gadgets to be embedded from any number of other sites. There are a zillion opensocial gadgets already available for us to use (see http://igoogle.com) and there are containers written in a ton of different languages, so others can use our gadgets no matter what language they prefer. Hope this is convincing. Troy On 12/07/2010 11:41 PM, Jonathanbatteas wrote: > Troy I can definitely do that. > > However, I wanted to ask a couple quick questions. The specs for this project > are pretty broad, and I could really see something like this leveraging a > social network aspect, profile, chat, messaging, sharing studies, and keeping > track of individual users' annotations. Has the option of using existing open > source content management systems as a base for this application been > discussed? There are literally thousands of them out there, many of which > could fit the bill as a base for this system > > I am most familiar with Joomla, so I'll use that as an example. It is written > in PHP, rather than JSP, but since most of the custom work is going to be > done with JavaScript in the viewer, all of this work could be ported easily. > Joomla has an open source, though not free, social network component called > JomSocial, into which it would be fairly straight forward to created the > viewer/annotation component as a plugin (would that be something you would > consider working on Mike? You mentioned PHP). All that would be needed are > some database tables to store the information and link that information to > the users' profiles. User management and content (images for the manuscripts) > management would already be built into the base system. > > Though this method might take a little extra work to learn the specifics of > whatever system was chosen as a base, it still could take much less time than > programming the entire thing from scratch. > > No pressure at all, but if we did want to go this direction, I have a domain > license for JomSocial that I would be happy to give to this project. Consider > it my small donation. > > Anyway, I'd be happy to work on some design for what you have so far, what > would the best way of looking at what you have so far (source)? Or is it all > located in the index file for the viewer? I'm away from my computer right > now, so I haven't had a chance to check. Thanks. Talk to you later. > > On 12/07/2010 07:20 PM, jonathan batteas wrote: >>/ ... I have general web dev experience, but nothing > />/ that could touch the level of programming this would require. I am > />/ mainly a UI and design guy. I am very interested in usability,... > / > Jonathan, this is EXACTLY what we need right now. I am focusing on the > functionality that the team here needs. Ask anyone on this list, I SUCK > at aesthetics! > > Take the CSNTM indexing status page. If you login at > <http://community.crosswire.org,>http://community.crosswire.org, then go to > Projects, then CSNTM > Indexing, and look at the status page there, you'll see it is simply an > HTML table with all the bits volunteers and managers need to see. It's > functional but absolutely ugly. If you could design an HTML page with > all the same features on it, I can encorporate your static html into my > dynamic page which will produce the live data using your shiny new design. > > Does this sound like something that interests you? > > Troy > > > > > Sent from my iPod > > On Dec 7, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Mike Hagedon <m...@cainscape.com > <mailto:m...@cainscape.com>> wrote: > >> Troy, >> Thanks for reposting that... I had forgotten how to get there. >> >> Now that I am there, I can't remember how to attach the images to the >> records. I'm looking at ANA Fragment 12; my username is mike. >> >> Also, if you wanted any PHP work (I see it's JSP now), I'd be >> interested in that after my thesis is finished in May. Also, I can >> contribute jQuery help if that's needed. >> >> Mike Hagedon >> Tucson, AZ >> (Also a long-time lurker) >> >> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Troy A. Griffitts >> <<mailto:scr...@crosswire.org>scr...@crosswire.org >> <mailto:scr...@crosswire.org>> wrote: >> >> On 12/07/2010 07:20 PM, jonathan batteas wrote: >> > ... I have general web dev experience, but nothing >> > that could touch the level of programming this would require. I am >> > mainly a UI and design guy. I am very interested in usability,... >> >> Jonathan, this is EXACTLY what we need right now. I am focusing >> on the >> functionality that the team here needs. Ask anyone on this list, >> I SUCK >> at aesthetics! >> >> Take the CSNTM indexing status page. If you login at >> <http://community.crosswire.org>http://community.crosswire.org, >> then go to Projects, then CSNTM >> Indexing, and look at the status page there, you'll see it is >> simply an >> HTML table with all the bits volunteers and managers need to see. >> It's >> functional but absolutely ugly. If you could design an HTML page with >> all the same features on it, I can encorporate your static html >> into my >> dynamic page which will produce the live data using your shiny new >> design. >> >> Does this sound like something that interests you? >> >> Troy >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: >> <mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org>sword-devel@crosswire.org >> <mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org> >> >> <http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel>http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> >> _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
