Except we'll use a different name, and different technology. If any of you remember LivCode TV it was a free community project we started a couple of years back to live stream coding sessions. Since then a huge amount of things have happened and I feel it is time we restart this project full of the new juicy open source goodies at our disposal.
I've spend a while experimenting with new techniques in terms of screen casting, Hangouts on Air, mumble servers, and forms of documenting and screen-casting open source coding projects, and I'm really looking forwards to the Livecode TV's new season :) *What's the Focus?* The aim of the project is to give a space for the community to have fun researching and building projects together. A particular focus is the creation of open source libraries of general use to the community. If you have an open source project or library that you are working on, or would simply like to start working on with other people, get in touch on this thread, or off-list. *Principles and structure* All the projects we cover will be free culture <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_culture_movement>. - Code projects we work on will be hosted on GitHub - they must be open source. - Project documentation will be Creative Commons licensed so that it is compatible with Wikipedia and other free culture archives. - Authors get accreditation for their code and their work. - Everyone will get their own writing and research space online - We will integrate time and bitcoin donations to community projects and individual teachers. - We work, code and research together asynchronously and with regular Happenings where we get together online or in physical space. - Small groups are good. 3-5 people working together can get a lot done. We are more interested in researching and making together than marketing. *Kick Off Event* We'll be starting and announcing this project at MozFest <https://2015.mozillafestival.org/> this coming weekend. If you are in London drop by and see us in the Science Strand. And I'll be following this up with a series of weekly events based around some open source code and libraries that I hope will be of general use to the community. *Technology* We are working closely with a number of great open source projects, and are not restricting what we do purely to Livecode. We are also interested in projects and code bases that play well with Livecode. One of these is Federated Wiki <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallest_Federated_Wiki> - http://www.wired.com/2012/07/wiki-inventor/ Federated Wiki is a social architecture in which every writer has their own personal writing space (wiki) but is able to share data, code and content with other people by forking pages, or dragging and dropping content from one site to another. You keep your own research notes, but you share them with other people with automatic Creative Commons attribution and full revision history. We have an early stage server and client implementation of Fedwiki in LiveCode, and we will be building on this project to integrate it with a number of other important technologies that provide robust API's (Github, Wikipedia, Slack, Gitter, IPFS, Ethereum and other Blockchain technologies). Starting next week we'll be looking at oAuth, Twitter and Facebook API's - and anything else people on this list suggest as interesting. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
