Widget Library Development

[Chris Roby]

Bruce,

Please see the designs [1] (linked at [2]) for more information. We just started the github project today, so please go easy on our README :)

[1] https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/download/attachments/75665824/WidgetStore.zip?version=1&modificationDate=1311606648000
[2] https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/3AK/Sakai+OAE+v1.1+progress+tracking

-- 
Chris Roby

On Aug 2, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Chris Roby <croby at nyu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Last week during the weekly meeting Nico took us through the designs for the Widget Store.
> 
> So this is a pretty high-level question that I asked on Confluence,
> but do you really want to keep calling this a "store"?
> 
> Or to put differently, what's the goal here? The notion of store
> suggests a very centralized and passive experience of a consumer
> browsing merchandise and purchasing what they want.
> 
> Is that really what you want to suggest?
> 
> If yes, who's the "customer"?
> 
> I ask because I think you really need to vastly, substantially, grow
> the development community around OAE, and that this might be a way to
> do that; a way to help coordinate distributed widget development.
> 
> I was assuming, then, that the target is developers and staff, for the
> most part.
> 
> If that's the case, "store" doesn't really work as metaphor, and may
> be frankly off-putting.
> 
> But maybe I'm just misunderstanding what this piece is to do.
> 
> Either way, it might help to have answers to the questions above (say
> at least in the README for the github project)?
> 
> Bruce
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