Cope with Complexity a community notebook on the deepamehta software platform

19. May 2008

Coordination Update

Filed under: Common — Tags: , , , , , — malte @ 9:11 AM

On last Friday, Jörg, Thilo and me met again to coordinate our collaboration again and not only digitally.

Basically what came up to our mind is, like always, divided into small tasks for the next week, which is and will be the continuous attention on planning and writing in our fresh wiki-baby (with focus on extending the Users Guide, discussing about possible Tutorials, mixed up with discussions about upcoming events). I think the efforts of us within the last weeks on these topics are already visible and it makes fun for me to write in collaboration.

To all the application developers, web-developers and framework fans whom are on tenterhooks and can`t wait to get their hands dirty on the freshest developments, please be patient or just go ahead with that what`s already there. At the moment we have to set clear priorities and we are aiming in the direction of the users. Just so much to be said for interested developers, the LaTex Topic approach will be documented soon and i will bother J. again to build up with me the basement for testing, like ./run. test.

For me it seems now that we are heading towards an easier understanding about handling, usage and possible scenarios where DeepaMetha could already be of great surplus. We want to start to keep things simple for beginners. As Jörg thought out last friday on the bench: “Facing the complexity!” with the right dose of simplicity.

20. April 2008

on fridays, coordination is coming

Filed under: Common — Tags: , , , , — malte @ 1:52 AM

I am really looking forward to provide you some support with my skills as an application developer in the future and i will start with some deepamehta administration docs, which you can find here.

In the re:publika community meeting three ideas came up on our desk, which are interesting for me cause i think we could manage them very soon, possible in may.

1) Implement in xtreme-pogramming style an laTex-Topic (8.May)
2) Get the Screencasts started (8.May)
3) Organize the next get togther (whenever someone has some time)

Additionally, Joerg and me have planned to meet every Friday at Lunch Time for talking about current topics of interests in the deepamehta community. We just started to go into a huddle again, i had some lazy days in holiday and we both don`t want to loose weeks by weeks while working on other topics. So as a warm up session for further coordination meetings we made a info graphic, yet only in german, about possible “dances” between DeepaMehta and the World Wide Web. Not the most urgent thing now, i know, but we liked the idea of having one ;)

DeepaMehta and the WWW

Vincent was also present on Friday and we could engage him to spend some time on a possible new deepamehta corporate media-wiki. We want to build an open howTo section and sooner or later somekind of central resource for content around the deepamehta world and would be also very happy to find some users who can help us. This urgent need came up, cause i don`t have that much power to write the most basic things more than once, for example if problems with the usage come up.
We have already some good resources but most of the new demo users i attended over the last 9 month (nearly 300 new users) had the same starting problems. In the last year in July i started to work through all forum messages, there are some good hints and tips allready collected which emerged through first hand experience. it would be nice to rewrite those who i haven`t got yet and those who are useful and give them a simple structure. i managed half the messages yet.

here is an approach, which is horrable formatted yet but open for collaboration

if we have the new server ;) hopefully during the start of the week, **yippie**. we could start with a new unrestricted access media wiki and deliver a new powerful deepamehta server. it would be also great to bundle some efforts and use these possibilities for development. but small steps and one after another.

update from monday

we now have a new server and i am currently working to get a new deepamehta wiki on. if anyone wants to develop java-web-apps with the deepamehta framework, get in touch with us, but at the moment we do everything in our spare-time, so please be a bit patient.

cheerio malte

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