[Ur] Calling Ur/Web enthusiasts!

Tue Apr 12 18:43:05 EDT 2011

Hi 
I am interested in such a project. As a matter of fact, I have just started a small application called stock market portfolio tracker as part of my Master's course work. Please lemme know a hub where we can all meet ona daily basis for the project. 
thank you,

Kirupashankar Sampath
7907 N Backer Ave,
Fresno, CA 93720.
Ph: 817-715-5576 

> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:21:08 +0200
> From: gdpe at itu.dk
> To: ur at impredicative.com
> Subject: [Ur] Calling Ur/Web enthusiasts!
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> Hello,
> 
> I've been thinking that in order to bolster the development and
> acceptance of Ur/Web, it might be a suitable time to try to come up with
> a "killer app" that will demonstrate the real-world applicability of
> Ur/Web. Given that there are a number of people on this list who are
> now doing Ur/Web development, it seemed sensible to try to recruit a
> number of people who would be interested in contributing to such an effort.
> 
> My vision was to create something that could be launched as a real
> public-facing service. It should be relatively ambitious, I think. It
> should be our goal to build the "largest" Ur/Web application to date,
> such that we can perhaps identify some known boundaries within which
> Ur/Web can be shown to be applicable. It's not entirely clear to me
> what an appropriate demonstration might be at this stage, however, here
> are a few thoughts (in no particular order, and without any close
> consideration given to merit):
> 
> * A Facebook application
> * A Twitter clone (leveraging Ur/Web's FRP model to do real-time stuff)
> * Web chat (a la Omegle)
> * A Wiki system
> * ... something else?
> 
> Suggestions are obviously welcome. Primarily at this stage I think it
> would be very helpful for interested parties to get together on IRC or
> within some kind of collaborative setting (a GitHub project, perhaps)
> and start thinking about what we would like to develop, what this will
> require, and who is going to do what. Adam has at this stage agreed to
> support such a project in some kind of consultant role, at least.
> 
> For the moment, if you are interested, please reply on-list with any
> ideas/comments/criticisms.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gian
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