Keeping up with Ladybug

[theo-armour]

@mostaphaRoudsari

What's are some good ways of keeping up with what you are working on?

[theo-armour]

@mostaphaRoudsari

Here is what I see:

https://theo-armour.github.io/github-api-users-explorer-r3.html#MostaphaRoudsari#1

But, I'm sure there's more somewhere.

;-)

[mostaphaRoudsari]

Hi @theo-armour, Sorry for the late reply. I have been traveling for the last week and will be traveling for the next two weeks.

I really like to hear more about why are you asking this question. We had a similar discussion with @chriswmackey last week (when we were co-teaching a week long workshop). Currently there is no single place but here is the list of places that one needs to follow to know what's going on with the development:

1. Development on github: We have around +6 active developers that are actively working on different projects. We are trying to collect the repositories under ladybug-analysis-tools but we still have ladybug, honeybee and butterfly which makes it complicated to follow. None of us do a great job like you to put daily updates together but we keep each other posted mainly trough github and chat via google-hangout. We tried to start a slack channel for developers so we can all keep in touch but it didn't work.
2. Discussions on Ladybug forum on Grasshopper: There is usually a great deal of discussions on Grasshopper forum that I personally can't always keep up with all of them. Some ideas for development and projects are coming from the grasshopper forum.
3. Workshops and presentations: We try to post all the upcoming workshops and presentations on twitter and facebook but not everyone let us know about the workshops. There are many that I know about them after it happens and probably some that we never know about them.
4. Other stuff: There are other stuff that mainly happen in emails (e.g. possible collaborations on new developments). We usually move them to github as soon as they can be moved to github so I would put this under 1.

We were thinking that we may need a separate page that is subscribed to rss pages of all these sources and we can implement a graphical layer with d3 on top of it to keep everyone posted about what's going on. Maybe we should start using slack?

[theo-armour]

@mostaphaRoudsari

Open source software could use just as much marketing and promotions and a for-profit software.

The issue is that most open source software just does not have any marketing and promotion teams. And most coders would rather write code then do promotion.

It seems to me, however, that a lot of what the coders do could actually be used to help with marketing and promotion. If all the activities you mentioned could be accessible from one place - hopefully close to the homepage - then this could act as a source of promotional material for the project.

I am working on this project - look for your name:

https://theo-armour.github.io/

And a version for get up organizations is in the making. I will somehow try to incorporate links to all the sources you mention.

For General conversation, I am really becoming a strong believer in GitHub issues and in the GitHub API. If nothing else I can use markdown and paste images. This makes creating content fairly easy and quite quick.

One of the next steps will be to somehow suck the content out of certain tagged issues and display it in new ways and in new places.

I will post a demo version of the organization content agregator as soon as it's ready.

[mostaphaRoudsari]

If all the activities you mentioned could be accessible from one place - hopefully close to the homepage - then this could act as a source of promotional material for the project.

Totally agreed!

I'm not sure if you have seen this but I put together this graph while ago which shows how people interact on the grasshopper group. It was great to be able to see how many people are helping each other on the group. Once we have a solution to collect the data I think we can use some visualizations similar to the link that I sent to make it easier for everyone to understand. We should be able to do a similar one for github and developers.

[theo-armour]

Very fun image!

Now how can we get it to highlight what's hot right now.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

If all the activities you mentioned could be accessible from one place -
hopefully close to the homepage - then this could act as a source of
promotional material for the project.

Totally agreed!

I'm not sure if you have seen this but I put together this graph
http://bl.ocks.org/mostaphaRoudsari/raw/82f51f01b4619db2f09f/ while ago
which shows how people interact on the grasshopper group. It was great to
be able to see how many people are helping each other on the group. Once we
have a solution to collect the data I think we can use some visualizations
similar to the link that I sent to make it easier for everyone to
understand. We should be able to do a similar one for github and developers.

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That's one of the parts which is missing right now from the graph! There is another graph that generates a stacked bar chart based on type of activities on the group. The plan was to have the bar chart on the top of page and let the user brush the recent dates so the graph can be updated for any period of time including the most recent dates. What do you think is the best solution?

[theo-armour]

All good. Must go to bed. More tomorrow..

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 2:20 AM Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari <
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That's one of the parts which is missing right now from the graph! There
is another graph http://bl.ocks.org/mostaphaRoudsari that generates a
stacked bar chart based on type of activities on the group. The plan was to
have the bar chart on the top of page and let the user brush the recent
dates https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/6232537 so the graph can be updated
for any period of time including the most recent dates. What do you think
is the best solution?

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