It turns out that there are people who prefer a forum and others prefer a list while yet others (like me) think both are nice in different ways.
Yes, I understand this. I used to be more of a forum person, but things changed for me, essentially, when I got my gmail account. I find the 'label' system so good for tracking mailing lists that I can't imagine going back. While previously the idea of receiving huge amounts of mail offended me, nowadays checking on a forum just seems so chore-like to me. In any case, I've always found it funny that there aren't more forum-mailinglist combination systems out there, considering how similar the two concepts are. Some sort of phpBB-mailman integration could go a long way to solving that problem... I think there are some scripts available but it would probably take some work, and not necessarily be a good solution.
Somehow it looks like the forum appears more accessible to people who are just starting out or are considering to jump in. The forum -so far- also seems more conductive to colaborations, while the list tends to be more in-depth on a technological level especially once the bugs hit the fan.
I agree, there seems to be tons of cool ideas on the forum, I wish I'd checked it out earlier. It's nice to see people exploring chuck in various ways and coming up with UGen tricks as opposed to just discussing language semantics and such. (Though I'm a language nerd so I don't mind.. ;-)
points as well as a public shared VM capable of streaming for online jam-sessions but until then I think that so far the price is worth the gains.
That is a really cool idea... and totally do-able. ajax-audicle anyone?? Steve
On 17/12/2007, Stephen Sinclair
forum-mailinglist combination systems out there, considering how similar the two concepts are. Some sort of phpBB-mailman integration could go a long way to solving that problem... I think there are some scripts available but it would probably take some work, and not necessarily be a good solution.
I think the SC people use a system that's a list but where the archive also has features to reply to it in forum-style. There has been talk about Electro-Music building a similar system because of it's rather large Nord Modular section also overlaps with the NM list but as of yet no real decisions were made.
I agree, there seems to be tons of cool ideas on the forum, I wish I'd checked it out earlier. It's nice to see people exploring chuck in various ways and coming up with UGen tricks as opposed to just discussing language semantics and such. (Though I'm a language nerd so I don't mind.. ;-)
I like both a lot. It generally interesting to see ChucK-culture (Chulture?) evolve but it's also interesting to see how the forum and list take different directions. For me the practical angles of the forum also increase the interest in the language. Yet even still better would be to also have real-life get-togethers. I'm trying to get something started in The Hague, it'd be nice if Dutch (aspiring)ChucKists would give a shout.
points as well as a public shared VM capable of streaming for online
jam-sessions but until then I think that so far the price is worth the gains.
That is a really cool idea... and totally do-able.
ajax-audicle anyone??
We do have the option to attach ChucK to a remote VM over a network but I wonder if there are features/future possibilities to make that go both ways, leading to two or more VM's holding the same code. Maybe connecting ChucK to a streaming program, then publishing the IP address would already do but there are questions. for example the option to make ChucK call the underlying OS would need to be disabled or it'd be a HUGE security hole. A web-based interface would be even nicer. Yours, Kas.
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