> > > > 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, > > not enough to get the money I think). It all needs to be put into real > > terms. > > Multiple clients and use's with a single federate realtime protocol is > > still a very big deal - no one has experience of that at the moment. The > > hard part is getting across all the use-case's for it. Or, rather, the > > specific ones you plan to make possible with the kickstarter. > > I definitely agree. Thats in many ways the hardest part of all this - > boiling the idea down to a simple form that we can do a kickstarter > around, and communicating that effectively. Maybe we should explain it > as "realtime git for non-coders" or "federated google docs that you > host yourself". >
Not bad. To me the main (long term) idea is openness. Social networks built on Wave tech that can federate with eachother would mean that people arnt "locked into" a specific app because all their friends are. It also allows lots of different clients to be developed, and people choose the one they like, rather then the one they have to use. Because of that, newer (better) clients will be made - in much the same way that free competition between webbrowsers have given us vastly better browsers. But this is hard to express easily. > > > For my part, I am happy again to contribute (for free) whenever there is > a > > separation of the GWT client. Or even a clean client/server protocol to > > build a new web client from stretch. > > > > Additionally, I have an Augmented Reality specific client application I > > wrote, coded for Android phones. The idea was anyone could annotate > > anything anywhere, and share it with whoever they want. The app is > working > > (mostly)...except it has no sever to connect too. Nothing at the moment > > forfills the requirement. Once theres a client/server protocol to a wave > > server I could very quickly put out this (imho) rather cool Android > client > > and I think it will attack a fair bit of attention. > > Do you want to be in the kickstarter video? It might be cool to put in > short interviews with people like yourself who want to build cool > stuff on top of the platform to give people more of a sense of what we > can do with it. > Probably not, I am not the best at expressing myself on camera ;) I did make a video for my project which I dont mind you using (or clips from) or if you need edits; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0aczCw77gQ (explanation, the first half is my attempt at describing wave in simple terms) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px8El5Tbcw0 (demo) Sadly the website for the project (arwave.org) is down at the moment for some reason. > > -J >
