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

Tue Nov 22 11:16:31 UTC 2011

Hi Kat, Lucy =)

can't open, frozen...?

do you see map? for now it only shows map but if you wait a little and somone subscribed changes xmpp status it will show up on a map, as i said very early preview but hope to have it functional by open data day...

please catch me on irc maybe!
=)
~ elf Pavlik ~

Excerpts from Kat Braybrooke's message of 2011-11-22 11:02:48 +0000:
> 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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