LC has long been plagued with a multiplicity of source sites for LC stacks/applications/resources. There needs to be a central repository for all these. The old RevOnline/User Samples was an attempt at this, but most people these days are used to using a browser to download files and resources. That has the added advantage of showing up in Google searches. Edinburgh really should set up a webpage on the home site that incorporates an upload system requiring the user to name and describe the stack/app to be uploaded and specify the LC version and licensing/distribution constraints (from freeware to GPL all the way to commercial/protected). It is central to the company's interest to showcase the full panoply of what LC can do, and it is in the user-base interest to have one central repository for available resources.
IMO this deserves to have a high priority. I was going to suggest linking to a repository from the case studies page at LC, but "LiveCode stories" seems to be the current iteration of this, and when I click on that link on the LC homepage I get an empty webpage. (OTOH, my Firefox browser has been acting a little squirrelly lately.) -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Feb 27, 2016, at 4:31 PM, Tore Nilsen wrote: > >> 27. feb. 2016 kl. 21.51 skrev Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com>: >> >> What could happen if we change "LiveCode" there to "we”? >> >> The company has many deep technical obligations to complete, and education >> is an area that really needs the insights of education specialists to guide >> it. >> >> And since we're talking about things that would be scripted, who better to >> do that than educators who script? >> >> How shall we proceed with identifying the tools and other resources we need >> to fulfill the vision you've outlined here? >> >> We set up a section of the forums for educational outreach: >> http://forums.livecode.com/viewforum.php?f=107 >> <http://forums.livecode.com/viewforum.php?f=107> >> >> I would encourage you to consider posting your thoughts there, and let's see >> if we can put together a team and make it happen. > > > I do agree that this is a kind of task where we, as educators and users of > LiveCode should do the actual work. However, I think it is vitally important > that the outcome of such a process has an active backing from the company, > and this was my reason for using the phrase I did. I fully accept the > challenges and obligations that LiveCode as a company has to meet, and I also > see much of this and the effort that has been done in the last couple of > years as key to any success in the education sector. > > I will post my thoughts in the forums, and I will also encourage others who > work in education to take part in discussions about what we can do to help > put LiveCode in the hands of more teachers and students. I will also try to > come up with suggestions for tools and resources I personally will find > useful, and hope others will as well. It may be helpful to share different > national and local curriculums, in order to identify useful resources and > common approaches to different parts of said curriculums. > > One thing I really would hope LiveCode will do, is to find room for this as a > part of the program for the conference in Edinburgh in August. I have already > registered and will attend. If there is anything I can do to help facilitate > this, I am more than happy to do so. > > Regards > Tore N > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
