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

[Simon Van Casteren]

I'm also interested. I've been thinking about video conf and recordings for
my music school application (www.classy.school), and it's just a really
good thing to have integrated into any app. So I'd be interested in doing
some work for it.

(How much is always the issue of course... Especially now that my daughter
can't go to school on top of a full time job.)

Simon

On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, 23:47 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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