Call for LiveCode projects: LiveCode and Science at MozFest this weekend.

Tue Nov 3 19:59:57 EST 2015

I do not know if this contribution applies here, but i see a need for a
project about 2D and 3D text rendering. At least rendering text is
something useful for a LiveCode project, in my point of view.

Then what about drawing interactive relationship graphs for database
application development defining database objects which will also be
defining the databases inserting a middle layer, and at the same time in
Livecode such database application could become live, using different
themes and styles, allowing to enter data and using data browsing
immediately?

Then there is a business need to draw items interactively based on sizes
and other attributes in vector formats, to store and display them.

I would be very much interested in unlocking and accessing all kinds of
APIs, such as Google, Gmail, or Skype, Viber, or Facebook, etc.

>From a general user point of view: What about   a Unified MyData Tool where
all communication is hooked to one central place bringing together all my
activities, all my mail, all my tasks and all my events under one roof?

Roland

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015, 18:38 Matt Maier <blueback09 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The focus is on a general purpose framework for modeling many orthogonal
> dimensions of information using entities and relationships. When the model
> is built correctly the information in it can be queried to produce many
> useful things, a subset of which are visuals like business/network graphs.
> But for my goal I won't have a use for business graphs any time soon, so
> the stuff I'm writing to display graph data is just networks.
>
> Livecode makes it relatively easy to draw stuff on the screen, so one of
> the things I'd like to give back to the community is a standardized
> interface for pushing graph data into a control and getting back queries
> for new data. I'm a new, self-taught coder and I didn't have all that much
> trouble implementing an array with graph data and several algorithms for
> processing it. Therefore I conclude that it should be pretty straight
> forward to implement all of the common expectations of a graphing library
> in Livecode. Whether or not it is memory efficient and/or scales at all
> well is a different question :)
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 9:00 AM, David Bovill <david at viral.academy> wrote:
>
> > That sounds like a great topic for a small research group. I'd certainly
> > join in. Do you mean business graphs, or general network graphs?
> >
> > On 3 November 2015 at 16:24, Matt Maier <blueback09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm building an open source graph manipulation and drawing library in
> > > Livecode. The point is for it to be modular but I'm building it to do a
> > > specific thing right now, so it isn't all that modular. It's still
> young
> > so
> > > there's plenty of room for new ideas.
> > >
> > > I could use help in the more official "graph" areas since I don't have
> > any
> > > particular background in graphs, they just turned out to be useful for
> my
> > > goals. For example, I'd like to find out if it makes sense to store the
> > > graphs in a graph database (ATM I'm just exporting the array to JSON
> text
> > > files). It would also be nice to find out if an existing graph
> > description
> > > language will work or if I have to define my own. And, of course,
> there's
> > > the fun of trying to optimize the algorithms to allow more nodes into
> > > memory. Maybe someone knows how to just use an existing graph library
> > from
> > > Livecode?
> > >
> > > Also, I'm planning to make a widget for displaying the graphs but I
> > haven't
> > > learned LCB yet. Someone who already knows LCB could speed that up.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 6:54 AM, David Bovill <david at viral.academy>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > This weekend at MozFest - https://2015.mozillafestival.org/ we are
> > > running
> > > > a series of workshops over the weekend using Livecode, and Raspberry
> > > Pi's.
> > > > We are looking to raise interest in Livecode, and to attract
> developers
> > > to
> > > > your projects, helping build communities around open source software
> > > > projects.
> > > >
> > > > If you have an open source software project and you would like to
> > attract
> > > > developers, or volunteers to the project, and present it at MozFest -
> > let
> > > > us know about the project either here or off-list and we can present
> > it /
> > > > organise a workshop around the project.
> > > >
> > > > We will be helping to organise a series of online coding sessions as
> a
> > > > successor to the LiveCode TV project we started a couple of years
> back
> > -
> > > > but with a new platform and new methodology. This means even if you
> > can't
> > > > make it to MozFest this weekend in London, you can take part online
> and
> > > > follow this up with regular weekly coding sessions, where we can all
> > get
> > > > together code, talk, and generally hang out around great open source
> > > > projects.
> > > >
> > > > Any proposals or thoughts on projects that could benefit from
> getting a
> > > few
> > > > heads around it, or new topics that you would like to learn about or
> > open
> > > > source libraries that you think the community should / you would like
> > to
> > > > help out developing?
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