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

[Adam Chlipala]

I'm glad to see the interest from Daniel and Simon!  Here's my latest 
demo application 
<https://github.com/achlipala/upo/blob/master/examples/onlineconf.ur>, 
which also uses the Ur/Web World library 
<https://github.com/urweb/world> for Google and Zoom integration, plus 
the Mail library <https://github.com/urweb/email>.  On the near-term 
to-do list is also showing off some Slack integration.

I'm curious if anyone else can figure out how to build and run that 
demo. >:)

I encourage folks who like the general idea to give it a try and then 
contact me privately about how it goes.

On 3/21/20 3:29 AM, Daniel Tornabene wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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