Wiki/Report of Meeting 2022-02-17

Report on the J wiki meeting of February 17, 2022

Present: Art Anger, Will Gajate, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault

1. Will reported on the J playground (https://wgajate.github.io/jsource/bin/html/emj.html)and much of the discussion was around the challenges faced in trying to develop a menu driven interface that could accommodate labs and other useful add-ons. He has also found a javascript interface for iOS devices which may allow the J Playground to run on touchpads and phones as well. Will is going to touch base with Chris Burke to update the version of the J playground on the J GitHub. Bob will touch base with Eric to see if he has any suggestions to best do this based on his experience with JHS.
2. Bob reported on the response to the promotional video(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV936cVrN0I)which has been very positive, both with array programmers and anecdotally with their non array programming friends who are now interested in learning J. The video has had 289 views since it was published without much publicity.
3. Bob then presented the prototype of the J wiki landing page (https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/prototype_landing_page) with subpages for newcomers (https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/newcomers), reference (https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/reference) and community (https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/community). The pages were received well and the general direction was considered to be correct. Then there was a discussion about the process going forward to update the wiki. Suggestions are that the prototype be put up for consideration by the community in a couple of weeks and then remain responsive to suggestions over the next few months.

Bob Therriault (talk) 23:05, 18 February 2022 (UTC)