[okfn-discuss] very early 'Live Participation Map' - who would like to experiment with it?

Tue Nov 22 11:02:48 UTC 2011

Agreed Elf - can't open it! Nice name though :)

Kat

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Elf,
>
> Great work during the Hackday, I would love to have a look at:
>
> http://demo.hackers4peace.net/ <http://demo.hackers4peace.net/>
>
> but it's frozen for me, any chance you can take a look?
>
> Lucy
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:49 AM, elf Pavlik <perpetual-tripper at wwelves.org
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Today I during our little 'Hack Day' I started working on a map with live
>> visualization of participation in work. So far I have it in a very early
>> stage but if some of you could prepare to experiment with it, this would
>> help me with moving it forward =)
>>
>> As for today you can see it here: http://demo.hackers4peace.net/
>> Please don't get disappointment that you won't see anything first.
>> Currently it keeps no state so you will see something once starting playing
>> with it yourself, and more if others happen to change their statuses while
>> you had the page open. It works by using XMPP so you will need an account.
>> For those of you who happen to not have one yet you can shortly crate on
>> here: http://www.jabber.org for client you can use cross platform
>> http://pidgin.im (ubuntu has Empathy installed by default and some
>> people use 'Adium' on mac) You can try using your gtalk but I don't see
>> much adventage in making this world Google centric ;)
>>
>> Last part you need to add 'statusbot at hackers4peace.net' to your contacts
>> which will automatically reply with request to subscribe to your presence,
>> please accept this request. Ok now you can fully participate in
>> experimenting with this map! =)
>>
>> Looking at http://demo.hackers4peace.net in your browser try changing
>> your status message in your XMPP client, at this moment you may also want
>> in this XMPP client to configure your profile with avatar image and just
>> your current city.
>>
>> If you on monday will keep this page open for longer time, possibly you
>> should see more people appearing as others add 'statusbot' to their
>> contacts and play with their status messages. In next step I will add
>> keeping state on the server so as soon as you open the page you will see
>> everyone else online. Than I want to add tags like lets say #okf/ckan/482
>> which we can add to our status messages to tag what we work on.
>>
>> Most likely not next week but at some point I would like to throw in a
>> 'playback' future where we could see visualized who, where, have worked on
>> what =)
>>
>> But for now just seeing current state our distributed community working
>> together should make interesting visualization...
>>
>> Please consider taking 5-10min time to setup this XMPP (jabber) account,
>> this way you may also have a taste of 'federated networking' where you
>> control your basic data and let other services subscribe to it, as well as
>> don't need to go to 50 places to update your avatar or current location ;)
>> Besides that using client application of your choice, even including web
>> based XMPP clients like http://jappix.com
>>
>> If you still find this email confusing please wait a little for some
>> simpler and more visual information about it ;)
>>
>> Good night... finally...
>> ZZZzzz...
>> ~ elf Pavlik ~
>>
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