Wiki/Report of Meeting 2022-03-10

Report on the J wiki meeting of March 10, 2022

Present: Art Anger, John Baker, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault

1. Bob presented an update on the J Playground. https://jsoftware.github.io/j-playground/bin/html/emj.html In the last week, a lot of work has been done by Joe Bogner, as he is looking to reduce his involvement with much of the heavy lifting completed. Currently the Playground has the ability to: a)run selected J labs from the menu b)enter multiline scripts which can be saved as URL's of the Playground and c)provide a bridge between JavaScript and J. Since Will and Jon were not at the meeting, there was not any discussion about steps forward other than the fact that we are far ahead of schedule with this aspect of the project and there is no need to rush development.
2. We then discussed the structure of the wiki, beginning with the appearance of the landing pages. The feeling was that the more colourful icon pages would be used for high traffic areas, but that this look was not required for pages deeper in the wiki with higher text content. The existing prototype pages would be extended so that they have active links to allow people to test the wiki more effectively. Also, plans to replicate the information on the jsoftware README page on the main prototype landing page, so that link from J software will access the main landing page. There was then some discussion about revising the sidebar with links to the Playground, moving the J wiki search to the top and reviewing some of the links such as Random Page to see whether their utility meets the amount of space that they occupy. The advantage of the sidebar is that it is present on every page of the wiki. A question of whether the category page should be included in the sidebar was not resolved.
3. Bob ran an update of last week's video which will be public on Friday March 11th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfKp12Bf5T8, and there was discussion on the choice of topic for the next week's video. Raul suggested that he uses Rosettastone.org for a lot of programming, but that might not be the best for the general audience. Bob suggested that he would do a walk through of the Playground to highlight its capabilities and that if anyone had ideas later to let him know.

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