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[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

Stephanie Gerson writes,
 > Super speedy synthesis:
 > 
 > 1. I like the educational-screensaver-as-a-fundraiser idea.
 > 
 > 2. I hereby declare Bear and Stephanie the heirs of PIW\xE2\x80\x99s UI.  
 > All in 
 > favor say aye.  

Eye!

 > 3. Heirs will also examine Groxis and similar endeavors (although I _do_ 
 > wish someone were willing to help by doing a comprehensive search for 
 > similar concept-mapping tools/interfaces \xE2\x80\x93 Lawrence?)

Sure.  I also recommend looking at things like Macromedia Flash and
it's free counterpart SVG.

 > 4. PIW and the various Google engines \xE2\x80\x93 what are the
 > various engines and how do they differ?  How would using them help
 > with funding, Lawrence?
 > 
 > 5. RDF.  Rambunctious Draconian Fairies?  Radically Derelict
 > Fondue?  Don\xE2\x80\x99t quite understand, but sounds intriguing.
 > Chad, if you feel comfortable sticking with what you know for now
 > and exploring this in the future, that\xE2\x80\x99s fine.
 > I\xE2\x80\x99d be glad to include it in future proposals (why,
 > would we have to pay for it?).

I can think of oodles of features and functionality to add and I bet
everyone else on the list has a favorite toy they wanna see.  At the
moment I think we have plenty of work to do just to get this part
finished.  My personal pet project is making it an XML-RPC/SOAP server
to allow for virtually any kind of client in any language on any
platform to be written for it while being a lot more flexible than
broswer based interfaces.  I've been playing with pygtk and embedded
Mozilla and in about 8 lines created a simple web browser.  I can see
a python GTK client that can render html (with Gekko) as having a lot
of possibilities.

 > 6. No Chad, I didn\xE2\x80\x99t forget about your X-mas present.
 > If you really want XML in a nutshell, I\xE2\x80\x99ll tell Santa.

Heh...

 > Finally, just wanted to let you know (again?) that I\xE2\x80\x99m
 > taking off on Thursday and will be without internet access until
 > January 8th.  In case this is the last synthesis of 2004, have a
 > wonderful new year\xE2\x80\xA6

Maybe I'll have a suprise for ya...

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Chad Knepp
python -c 'import base64;print base64.decodestring("cHlnQGdhbGF0ZWEub3Jn")'