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

[Daniel Tornabene]

I'm interested.  I haven't used Urweb but I love standard ML, so my
contributions would be perhaps less immediate as others more familiar with
the codebase

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:47 PM Adam Chlipala <adamc at csail.mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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