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Cat Herder

Born. Breathed, drank, ate, excreted a lot. Sat in rows with other young listening to someone at the front of the room talking a lot. Read, sang, wrote, acted, coded. Learned a lot about groups. Facilitated more and more, and less and less obviously (i hope). Writing again now.

 

Interest in Wagn

Wagn scratches some long-running itches of mine about harnessing the power of computers to organize information in ways it can't ve organized in physical form. For an old and ill-organized overview of those itches, see http://ourpla.net/john/wikiweblogpim.html

 

I consult to Grass Commons mostly on Wagn (occasionally on Hooze), doing software design work, testing, consulting to Wagn users, writing documentation, and more. Includes a lot of submitting, managing and responding to tickets.


What I do

For more about me see: http://ourpla.net/
...and my personal Wagn: http://johnabbe.wagn.org/



What I love

Herding cats - see http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8 (except to me it means coordinating work that supports everybody's freedom)



How to reach me

1680 Walnut St

Eugene, OR 97403
USA



home: +1-541-484-1156
work: +1-541-343-1944
mobile: +1-775-417-9338 (not a cell phone)





See http://johnabbe.wagn.org/wagn/Contact_me



Birthday:

Tickets
documenting , medium , John Abbe Issue or Question Instead of creating card-specific forms, we just want to add another way to edit that shows edit boxes for each inclusion. Solution Tags: Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories documenting , medium , John Abbe Issue or Question +issue Solution +solution Tags: Documentation WQL Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories open , high , John Abbe Issue or Question +issue Solution +solution Tags: easy Wagn 0.11 Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories testing , high , John Abbe Issue or Question +issue Solution +solution Tags: Wagn 1.0 Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories open , testing , John Abbe Issue or Question +issue Solution by using InvitationRequest+*tform ? Tags: Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories documenting , high , John Abbe Issue or Question From the old bug system:
  • style editor issues -- can only use multiple styles when in html view (bold and italic on same words, for example)
  • if
... Solution Tags: Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories
testing , low , John Abbe Issue or Question Sorry, Wagns richtext editor doesn't work in Safari yet. Solution +solution Tags: compatibility wysiwyg Wagn 0.11 Safari Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories pending , medium , John Abbe Issue or Question Depends on update includer cards Solution +solution Tags: Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories open , medium , John Abbe Issue or Question I often want to do a Search or try out some WQL without creating a new card. Here's a first pass - just include ... Solution Tags: Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories documenting , high , John Abbe Issue or Question Need a way to reference current card and it's parts in inclusions, also, these bugs are related: _self|view:name breaks multi-edit. It offers you to edit the named ... Solution Tags: Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories documenting , medium , John Abbe Issue or Question A way to specify view for items returned by Searches and Pointers. Clearer/easier view:-related syntax Solution Deprecate view:card and view:line in favor of view:open and view:closed. Also, make the "view:" optional - i.e., interpret |open, |closed, etc. the same as |view:open, ... Tags: Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories open , medium , John Abbe Issue or Question Here are candidates to also be included: Plus (for now one list, may want to split it up ... Solution Tags: Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories open , testing , John Abbe Issue or Question Solution +solution Tags: renaming Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Renamed sidebar to customizable sidebar, but...sidebar still shows a card (with an odd but unsurprising error for +tickets for item :-). Didn't try deleting ... Discussion User stories open , medium , John Abbe Issue or Question Each axis is either a Search (e.g. {"type": "Company"}, or a list of arbitrary cards (e.g. selected "fields" hard-formatted on Company cards - via a ... Solution Tags: Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories open , medium , John Abbe Issue or Question With SisterSites, links appear automatically to pages with the same name on other (“sister”) sites. As an example, the links to Eugene Eric Kim’s and ... Solution Tags: Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories pending , high , John Abbe Issue or Question User cards should have a link to all contributions by that user. User Contributions are an essential wiki tool for community growth as well as system ... Solution Tags: Example of the bug, or an example the question relates to Discussion User stories


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Add Cat Herder Add Process Artist FROM WIKIPEDIA Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens ... Add animal Add extant People who work on Wagn, or in any case are generally willing to help people with it: ... Add gamer When: 2008-05-09 +website Description: http://recentchangescamp.org/ - Open Space camp/conference on wiki and...?? Next one in the Bay Area, through May 11 (one week after ... When: +date +website Description: http://beaverbarcamp.com/ I had fun, did many demos. --John Abbe I did a lot of demos at BeaverBarCamp. Several were 45 minutes - long enough to get through the list here with time ... See http://barcamp.org/BarCampPortland John demoed Wagn there in 2008, see Demonstrations+BarCampPortland. add/edit

Freestyle

Wagn is...


...wiki++

...a gentle on-ramp to working with the complex relationships that computers are supposed to enable us to work with.

...a folksonomic approach to the semantic web.

...is the most powerful approach I’ve seen adding structure to wiki.

...to database as wiki is to word processing.

Wagn at events


BeaverBarCamp was awesome! Enjoyed RecentChangesCamp in 2007 too, and the ImminentChangesCamp we organized here in Eugene the weekend before. Made some notes from doing Demonstrations at both. 2008 RCC is coming up - no need for another ImminentChangesCamp though, we can just go to http://barcamp.org/BarCampPortland

Miscellaneous notes


From talking with Kaliya it sounds like XDI could be helpful, implementing some of the same or complementary stuff. Drummond Reed.

Interwiki


I write up a lot of tickets with feature requests. One of my interests is strengthening relationships among wikis. Some relevant features:

Lion Kimbro's LocalNames microformat already handles NearLinks and InterWikiLinks, and could easily be built on to handle listing a wiki's connection to other sites using these other features.

Working at Grass Commons


In January 2007 i started consulting at Grass Commons about quarter-time. I help with software design of Wagn, documentation and consulting (cultural & technical support for people using Wagn). On my own time, i push Wagn's functionality by "eating my own dogfood" with my personal wiki and the Process Arts wiki. Tickets i want addressed for my personal wiki:

(1)
find Pointer items that aren't yet cards