[Sigmakee-sumo] course reactions, related notions

[Rich M. <rd...@cf...>]

I enjoyed Adam's course a great deal and hope to use some of
what I learned in both personal and paid projects.  I'm also
hoping that Adam will set up a regular (eg, monthly) meeting
where folks can touch base, work on problems together, etc.


I'm not exactly sure about the boundaries between the -sumo
and -develop lists, but my take is that -sumo covers pretty
much everything except development topics on specific code
(eg, Sigma, CELT).  Please forgive (and correct) any errors.


Near the end of the course, Adam put up a wish list of areas
where he could use some help.  I don't have a copy, but here
are some general areas that subsume most of his items (and a
few that he didn't mention):

  community building, documentation, etc.
  software packaging and installation
  namespace management, syntactic macros, etc.
  visualization and user experience

Some of these areas are already being addressed; others are
longer-term and/or highly speculative in nature.  In fact,
Adam seems quite skeptical about the utility of namespace
management, syntactic macros, etc.  However, one of the joys
of Open Source is the chance to try out partly-baked ideas.

Speaking of which, a couple of us are interested in getting
Sigma (etc) running under Clojure, then using that environment
to start playing with some ideas.  Please get in touch if this
sounds intriguing...

-r

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