Hi guys Joshua, Bryan has talked Christoph and me about you, thanks for writing :) <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> * I would update the slide "Nobody Wants to Help", to something like, "Flash is a poor longterm solution." I would drop the claim "Flash Devs don't like to share." I would - Despite the great work of the free software community on projects like Gnash and the GameSWF library, there is very little in terms of sharing and collaboration of free software Flash projects. </blockquote><div>+1 </div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> - There is no free software Flash development tool, </blockquote><div>mmm, I remember MTASC <a href="http://www.mtasc.org/">http://www.mtasc.org/</a> </div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> instead almost all Flash development is done through the proprietary software created by Macromedia. </blockquote>+1 Bryan, really good draft, here some initial feedback: 1. SVG vs canvas I used RaphalJS (<a href="http://raphaeljs.com/">http://raphaeljs.com/</a>) demos to test SVG animatios using Browse and Surf, results: under surf: the XO crashed several times :( under Browse: the animations look really good, but the performance is really bad (you will get a several lag when clicking something, etc...) canvas is low level so, canvas drawing is faster than SVG drawing. about manipulation, well, It's really easy to manipulate SVG Objects (everything you draw is an object) but canvas is just a box where you can draw, Karma provides (some of) that objects. 2. why not processingjs? processingjs by default uses processing language, then if you want to use it you'll need to learn processing syntax... to support that syntax, processingjs uses a parser, so, it's slower than simple JS. in fact, you can use javascript to access processingjs objects, but.. the actual processingjs library is not designed to work under the XO, neither to work as a jQuery plugin. I think jresig doesn't encourage to use processing (syntax), he just take processing because processing was there (looking for the reference) I will add more info on the technical stuff. regards <div class="gmail_quote"> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Joshua Gay <<a href="mailto:jgay@ck12.org" target="_blank">jgay@ck12.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Bryan, This is looking good so far. Here are some initial thoughts, * It would be good to have a handout that puts all this info on a single double side sheet of paper (a suggestion taken from Edward Tufte's essay "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint) for people to read along with and to look at afterward. * I think overall it can be trimmed down abit when it is being pitched to specific groups (e.g., JS crowd). * I would update the slide "Nobody Wants to Help", to something like, "Flash is a poor longterm solution." I would drop the claim "Flash Devs don't like to share." I would - Despite the great work of the free software community on projects like Gnash and the GameSWF library, there is very little in terms of sharing and collaboration of free software Flash projects. - There is no free software Flash development tool, instead almost all Flash development is done through the proprietary software created by Macromedia. * I would introduce some more lucid examples of the kinds of things you would like to use this library to create. I had some other thoughts on the internationalization parts, too. I will try to respond later with them. The short of it is that I think the examples you gave me (in our phone call) about gettext being an overly-burdonsome approach for JS made a lot of sense and I think it would also help to explain that you are looking for the JS equivalent of gettext; kind of abstract this part away from your specific needs as an organization, and talk about how this could benefit projects in general. -Josh <div><div></div><div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Bryan Berry <<a href="mailto:bryan@olenepal.org" target="_blank">bryan@olenepal.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> josh, kcd, subzero 1st off, let me introduce Josh Gay, a js dev and free textbook guru. He is interested to make a presentation about karma to the JS devs group in Boston on Aug 27th. here is a more technically-oriented presentation for karma It is long on introduction and short on technical details. Much of the first part could be cut out depending on the target audience. I made it longer and more general for my first draft. It lacks a lot of technical detail on what we need help w/ for animation, i18n, web workers, localstorage -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, <a href="http://www.olenepal.org" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org</a> </blockquote></div> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Felipe López Toledo