Fwd: [openstreetmap-website] User page redesign a.k.a. activity stream (#54)

[Paweł Paprota]

Hi Serge,

I tried to ask myself the functional questions, the result is this:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ppawel/ActivityStream#Functional_design

Obviously the more people look at this/think about it the better so
everyone's welcome to contribute.

To be honest so far there's not been too much interest in this topic -
I've got a few cheers and some comments but no one seems to be
interested in an in-depth discussion (technical or functional). If you
are then that's great.

As for the API's, http://activitystrea.ms/ has been mentioned which
looks fine but in my view it's more of an icing on top of a cake that
still needs to be baked first.

I will do more research (e.g. "how big guys do it") before
implementation in the coming days so let's stay in touch - a meeting
would be great, not sure what is the interest out there.

Paweł

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012, at 22:32, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> Sorry, this was meant to go to the list, not just Pawel.
> 
> - Serge
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [openstreetmap-website] User page redesign a.k.a.
> activity stream (#54)
> To: Paweł Paprota <ppawel at fastmail.fm>
> 
> 
> I think a better solution to this might be to take a few steps back
> and ask ourselves some questions.
> 
> 1. What kind of things will activity streams have? What do we envision
> today, what is coming down the road and how can we be flexible enough
> for the future without getting boggred down into a lot of complexity?
> 
> 2. What other notification APIs exist? What can we learn from them?
> I'm familiar with a few notification APIs.
> 
> What do the big guys do? What does Facebook do, for example?
> 
> Maybe we can't emulate their architecture, but understanding even the
> API may help us think about the problem in a better way.
> 
> 3. Maybe we should meet together, those of us interested in this. We
> did this in DC (where Activity Streams was discussed at length). Maybe
> we can meet online?
> 
> - Serge
> 
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