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

[Urs Wegmann]

Hi Adam

I like the Idea of using Ur to help with the current crisis. However, I don't think that I am fluent enough with the language yet to be of much help.

I tried to install the demo and failed so far. Is there any advice on how to install libraries? Do I need to build them first or can I just download and copy to a certain directory?

From: Ur <ur-bounces at impredicative.com> On Behalf Of Adam Chlipala
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 4:33 PM
To: ur at impredicative.com
Subject: Re: [Ur] Any interest in bringing up a platform for virtual conferences?

I'm glad to see the interest from Daniel and Simon!  Here's https://github.com/achlipala/upo/blob/master/examples/onlineconf.ur, which also uses https://github.com/urweb/world for Google and Zoom integration, plus 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 <mailto:adamc at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
Some of you may remember 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.