Wiki/Report of Meeting 2022-02-24

Report on the J wiki meeting of February 24, 2022

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

1. Will presented an update on the J playground https://jsoftware.github.io/j-playground/bin/html/emj.html A drop down menu has been added to allow access to the teaser video, github source, download instructions, wiki, NuVoc and some J code examples. Eric Iverson had sent an email earlier in the week, letting us know that he would be available for peripheral development when he finished up his work on the ArrayFire add-on. We had a look at the utiljs.ijs script and the core.ijs and jijx.ijs scripts to see how the emsripten browser version of J might be able to replace JHS. With that superficial survey, the question was raised as to whether the new browser version of J may be part of a larger review of the JHS platform. That will be a question that we will raise with Eric. Raul mentioned that because the J Playground does not need to wait for a server, it may make animation with J a possibility. In any case, the J playground looks like it will be ready for the next iteration of improvement before it is completely up to speed at the end of April.
2. Bob presented feedback that had been received on the prototype pages https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/prototype_landing_page, which has been largely positive, although there were some comments on the font being too large. Bob felt that the large font served the function of keeping navigation simple, but Raul pointed out that the real issue may have been that the responder may have felt that some information might have been missing and the more important fact may have been what was perceived to be missing and should have been added if the font are smaller.
3. The next discussion was about the process of introducing the new wiki pages. The plan is to make them available for evaluation over the next two months and then bring them online as the new face of the wiki. During those two months, Bob will do a series of videos explaining the rationale for the changes and creating an easy method of feedback through youtube comments.
4. Art Anger presented the progress that he has made on an entry level page, "Where to Start" https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/User:Art_Anger/Where_to_StartAA , that will eventually be responsive to the experience of the viewer - more foundational for newcomers and more detailed for experienced J users.

Bob Therriault (talk) 22:08, 25 February 2022 (UTC)