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

[Rufus Pollock]

@elf: great work (and it did work for me though page load is very slow ...)

@all: can I suggest we take debugging off-list (or to okfn-help) to
save on people's inboxes :-)

Rufus

On 22 November 2011 11:20, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org> wrote:
> Elf,
>
> The page won't load at all :(
>
> Kat
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:16 AM, elf Pavlik <perpetual-tripper at wwelves.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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