For my part, what I am doing now is to figure out what the community of Future Text Connect (which I am going to call the FTC) 2019 is by collecting data on
- Public profiles that are related to the community (web sites, blogs, etc)
- Digital artifacts created and maintained by the members (images, videos, code repositories)
- Community groups and communication channels (skype, slack, github, gitlab, Google Docs, Google colab, etc)
I am interested in specific digital artifacts instead of philosophical principles. My own work, however, is platform independent and data driven.
From:
Steve
Dear Frode and company,
What am I working on?
I am building Effective.af (code): secure task management software with a bevy of unique features, designed to enable large numbers of participants and projects to join forces -- especially activists trying to change the world.
I imagine a world in which anyone, anywhere can create a highly productive, volunteer-driven, 100-person organization -- in 1 hour.
Its features and benefits are centered around making groups of humans radically more effective and secure:
How do we want to collaborate?
Orientation via demo | For starters, Duke and I were thinking that it would be great for our next meeting to give each participant the opportunity to spend 1-3 minutes doing a very quick demo of what they're building. Now that I think about it, after this next meeting it would also be cool to have each subsequent meeting's new people perform such a demo for us. All of this will help make it clearer which people in particular should be talking to/collaboritng with the demoer.
Extra-meeting working groups | Outside of the existing Tuesday meetings, which I suppose can be focused on on-boarding new people, the aforementioned very-brief demos, and reporting relevant project progress to one another, we should also have more serious work-oriented sessions of some sort, perhaps once a week. Addition specifics will depend on the nature of the integration, so let us first answer "what do we want to achieve?" -- specifically what we want to present in November -- then answer "how should we work together to achieve X?"
(In general, if you're building something exciting and new, send me a link to your demo or app! I am happy to try it out and give you feedback, provided that I can run it on Linux, either natively or in a web browser.)
What do we want to achieve?
Some combination of the following:
Agreement upon open specs that enable cross-app integrations or interactions of various sorts could be hugely valuable. If the debates become too trivial or laborious, I say we ask Frode to make the final decision as to what each spec says.
If #1 enables us to, say, pass JSON between apps in order to trigger various behavior, I am interested in building functionality exposed as APIs and/or chat bots that is meant to augment various tools relevant to the future of text and beyond.
Let's do #1 and #2 so that we have something epic to demo for this year's Future of Text Symposium. We should figure out what we want this to be as soon as possible, and we should each do a gut check to make sure it's something we are sufficiently serious about and excited about the goal we set!