Wiki/Report of Meeting 2022-08-11

The Report on the J wiki meeting of August 11, 2022

Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault

1. We started with a look at the page that Devon had put together called "Proposed Wiki Emphasis" https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/User:Devon_McCormick/ProposedWikiEmphasis that would be an overview of the wiki priorities. Bob had added a link for this page to the sidebar links on the yellow wiki https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page to make it easier to get feedback from users as the J wiki moves forward.
2. Raul had asked about whether Bob had resolved the issue about the missing essays with Chris Burke. Bob had not, but he and Chris had been discussing the conditions of addon information on the wiki. Chris had requested add-on description's updated as well as some instruction on how to create new addons. Chris was not available for this meeting, but will be available for the August 18th meeting to discuss the addon challenges in more depth. Bob has marked the missing essays with asterisks and will include that information in the update video, so that the categorization can begin before the missing videos are transferred.
3. Devon mentioned that it would be a good idea to get some Mandelbrot images that look good and would promote J to users. Raul mentioned Cliff Reiter's book https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Books#Fractals.2C_Visualization_.26_J.2C_4th_ed._.282_Parts.29 and Bob mentioned the articles that Cliff had done in Vector http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501110 (ed. Also articles in Journal of J http://journalofj.com/index.php/vol-6-no-1-june-2018).
4. Further discussion about addons that may be out of date and if there might be an "Archived" folder that would hold addons that were no longer functional, but that might be useful for code that might be mined for other projects.
5. Some discussion about a high definition J log with shading that had been requested on the APL Farm discord and Rik Sherlock had later provided. (ed. The high definition image is available here https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/File:Jlogo_hires.png) This SVG version overcomes the issues with upscaled image files in jpg or png format rendering differently in different browsers. SVG allows hinting with text and there are proposals for hinting for other types of images. Devon wonders if text hinting could be leveraged for the logo?
6. There was a discussion about conferences and the recent Meet-ups for APL in Toronto https://www.meetup.com/Programming-Languages-Toronto-Meetup/events/287695788/?response=3&action=rsvp&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze_canvas&utm_campaign=mmrk_alleng_event_announcement_prod_v6_en&utm_term=promo&utm_content=lp_meetup and New York https://www.meetup.com/Programming-Languages-Toronto-Meetup/events/287729348/?response=3&action=rsvp&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze_canvas&utm_campaign=mmrk_alleng_event_announcement_prod_v6_en&utm_term=promo&utm_content=lp_meetup . This discussion referenced the recent ArrayCast podcast https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode33-joao-araujo that had a lot of discussion about the Tools of Thought community, which is involved in mindmaps, and how receptive they might be to array programming languages.

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