[PataPata-discuss] Current status and plans related to PataPata
Status: Pre-Alpha
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From: Paul D. F. <pdf...@ku...> - 2008-11-10 13:38:18
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The last note prompts me to write this update on what I am currently up to and how PataPata fits into that. Right now, I'm mainly working on another SourceForge project of mine, now called the Pointrel Social Semantic Desktop: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/ The code is only in SVN right now (not as a downloadable package, sorry): http://pointrel.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pointrel/ This latest version support a desktop client in Jython/Java and a cgi server for coordination and sharing in Python. But it is still in its early stages, of course, with all the usual caveats. It is perhaps most easily thought of as a system for collaboratively constructing shared RDF files, like the bigger picture described here by someone else: http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ Also, that infrastructure in turn is intended to support work on the OSCOMAK project (which stands for "Open Source Communities Organizing Manufacturing Knowledge", or perhaps "OSCOMAK Semantically-interlinked Communities Organizing Manufacturing-related Know-how"). http://www.oscomak.net/ One such community I have been participating in is OpenVirgle (related to space habitation, and a spinoff from one of Google's April Fools jokes): http://www.openvirgle.net/ OSCOMAK currently has up a Halo Semantic MediaWiki, but I think I would rather have something more desktop-oriented and Java-oriented which includes tools for simulation, analysis, programming, version control, and content creation. I have submitted a Buckminster Fuller Challenge entry related to that: "OSCOMAK BFI Contest entry" http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/c2bda71ba04a31a0 So, I still continue to hope to develop code that supports some of the ideals of PataPata (or Squeak and Self), perhaps with the PataPata project depending on the Pointrel project base, and then being used to develop things for OSCOMAK and OpenVirgle. But the things I thought about with PataPata, including focusing on Java and Jython, are in turn benefiting the Pointrel project and the others, so there is some interplay back and forth already, kind of like a Miriam Makeba song. :-) Or, today, I should put a sad face on that sentiment as in the previous message: :-( So, I roughly have this stack of technologies in my mind as a dream for open manufacturing, where each level builds on the one below it: OpenVirgle & Appropedia & LUF 2.0 & other Open Manufacturing communities OSCOMAK tools PataPata Environment Pointrel Social Semantic Desktop (coordination over http) Java and Jython For homeschooling or the OLPC or even in progressive school classrooms, this would be another stack, differing at the top. Educational Content & Learning Tools PataPata Environment Pointrel Social Semantic Desktop (coordination over http) Java and Jython That educational content and learning tools would be inspired and maybe draw content from Squeak & eToys, OLPC & Sugar, and Wikipedia, as well as other sources. Anyway, that's just some general thinking out loud right now; we'll see how it works out. --Paul Fernhout |