Justin Grant wrote:
The value is in getting the members of the group involved while writing some Lisp code that has a practical use for us. It doesn't need to be a web app, in fact something else would be a nice change but what would gain more visibility for the group than a web-app we can say was implemented in Lisp itself ? LispSea 3D demos would help very much in this regard for the 'oooh aaahh' effect. They need a place to live though...
Here's my trick for projects. I don't offer to do new projects. I only offer to repurpose the projects I was doing anyways. OpenGL demos, game demos, Lispsea 3D demos, nothing changes for me. I will be doing exactly the same thing if zero other people want to do them. I do think "getting involved" is a good energy and impetus to try to instill in a group. The danger is when it means scaring people off, because they don't want more work than they were doing already. Unless of course you're talking about people with not enough to do that are really looking for a project. Those are about. Perhaps clever people can harness them. I would point out that "getting involved" is a social dimension, and needs no technical requirements at all. People could, for instance, "get involved" by taking a backpacking trip together and talking about Lisp in the woods, devoid of any technology. Or take solar panels and hand crank generators with them, ha ha ha! I would encourage people to think about what "getting involved" can mean in humanistic terms, rather than technological terms. This is why SeaFuncers drink beer. I tried to start a game for Seattle Sputnik IGDA people to play once upon a time. It didn't pan out. But silly community Lisp games are ways of getting people involved. Hm, I think there's I think Jeff Henrickson had a good idea with his live coding sessions. It fell down because there aren't really any other strong OCaml people in SeaFunc. It would be much easier in LispSea to support some canonical CL working environments. Cheers, Brandon Van Every