Wiki/Report of Meeting 2024-12-05

Report of Meeting 2024-12-05

Present: Ed Gottsman, Raul Miller and Bob Therriault

Full transcripts of this meeting were not available for this meeting, due to a recording error.

1) The meeting began with Ed showing off a new version of the J viewer that works within a browser extension. The viewer is enabled by interaction with a horizontal line that appears just below the address bar of the browser if the site that you are visiting has been indexed by the J Viewer. The J Viewer interface drops down from of the horizontal line and allows text search and selection from within the website. It is in very early stages but both I and Raul were impressed with how it provided a consistent search interface across a variety of sites that included J content. The consistency of the interface is something that Ed feels is important to attract a larger audience by making J information easier to access.

2) Bob then talked about a meeting that he had had with Eric where ways to grow the community were discussed. This might evolve from the J Wiki Meetings or it may be something else again. If you are interested I encourage you to join these meetings and be part of the discussion. An example was shown of Alex Lindsay's office hours https://www.youtube.com/c/OfficeHoursGlobal and whether this could be extended to questions and answers about J programming across a skill levels of a variety of language users.

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