[Ur] Any interest in bringing up a platform for virtual conferences?

[Adam Chlipala]

Some of you may remember the Ur/Web People Organizer (UPO) library 
<http://upo.csail.mit.edu/> that I've mentioned a few times.  It's an 
Ur/Web component library for rapid creation of applications to organize 
people -- a pretty broad remit.  It uses a lot of metaprogramming to 
write your application for you based on your database schema.

Suddenly an important variant of coordinating people is running a 
virtual event.  For instance, many planned conferences have moved to 
online substitutes, on short notice.  Events often have subtle 
differences from each other while sharing many logistical elements.

I wonder what interest there is out there in developing enough new UPO 
components to support virtual events.  For instance, I think it needs 
good ways to interact with video-conferencing software to livestream 
talks with Q&A, and to make the recorded videos available easily 
afterward in perpetuity, integrated within sites that take advantage of 
rich, per-event data schemas.

Would anyone like to join me in trying to plan out the required 
functionality and divvy up the coding work?

Full disclosure: I'm still developing a startup-company concept that 
could take advantage of that support.  The company is about, basically, 
a very simplified IDE for snapping UPO components together, so that 
people without programming experience can do it.  My idea is that the 
underlying, programmer-focused library remains open forever, though.

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