LiveCode TV Rides Again!

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David,
Awesome! Great idea and I hope to participate.
Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Nov 3, 2015, at 8:01 AM, David Bovill <david at viral.academy> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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