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Good day,
Long time no news on Gambari.
I’d like to have some feedback on a paper i’ve wrote few days ago about a Virtual Software concept.
http://www.z-way.org/technical/vsdb
I’m actualy looking for advice about language to use.
I need to be able to describe concepts that can be translated in code, math and graph. Also this language must be distributed from web so if those conversion could occur directly on web pages that should be awesome.
Thank’s to take time for that.
We talked about installing plugins in WP and moving the blog to our own server. Since we may want to do more that blogging, for example: Multilingual Posts, Projects, Some metrics and Analytics, (Nikolay was taking about Trust Metric), Event organizing, Advertising, Fund raising, add more… I wonder what software is best suited to handle all ?
Drupal and ModX are really simple and clear, Joomla is heavy to setup and manipulate but there is much more fonctionality.
About Google tools, i turn a bit around Google Site and it’s look ugly and very limitated by default.
Joomla, Drupal, your call ;o)
As you may have already realized, it’s not really “anyone’s call” what we are going to use, but to me its more about what we need and who is willing to contribute and what platform one has experience with… Please forgive me for the following brain dump but from what i know: Nikolay has experience with WP and he has acquired gambari.org for us, Naven has extensive experience in organizing communities, Stefan has extensive experience with PHP, Bertrand is extremely good with graphics, etc … and we are all pretty good at programming and software architecture. Please add anything you’d like to share… For example I’m more comfortable with Java and Google Engine than PHP. I’m also really exited about getting together and doing a development camp, perhaps sometime next year. Candidate projects pages and projects dashboard would be useful (we can add pages under Projects page), raising funds would help (start with google adsense?). About our community portal i’m sure you’re aware that you can export WP and experiment yourself. I personally think that instead of dividing out community it would be better to experiment bridging WP. For example we can setup our WP server at http://wp.gambari.org or/and JOOMLA at http://joomla.gambari.org , as for the current http://gambari.wordpress.com we are very limited as Nikolay mentioned earlier.
It’s not about dividing community, I think we need a place where we can share some more information without it being visible to spam bots for example (Bertrand please remove your email from bellow 
).
From SEO point of view, it’s not good to have multiple subdomains. Whatever we pick, it’s better to reside on the same domain under different paths, i.e. gambari.org as the main and gambari.org/blog as the blog, etc. Regarding the CMS… I think for blogging, WordPress is the best. There are many additional things you can do on top of WordPress MU such as BuddyPress (SocNet), bbPress (forum), etc. Drupal is cool, but even the upcoming Drupal 7 is nowhere close to WordPress for blogging. Probably Drupal 8 will change the status quo, but for now I think WordPress MU + BuddyPress is the best choice for us.
Agree about the SEO point of view. About CMS I’m all for what people have experience with. The top things TODO in my opinion are to create our own WPMU, add advertisement and a way for all of us to see how much funds we have accumulated, add infrastructure for translating content. Nik, if you have time can you setup WPMU at http://gambari.org and suggest a way to add Ads. Additional user accounts might be useful (people may like to help…). Lets keep both WPMU’s active for awhile.
Here is an interesting open source project built from scratch in a collaboration between ETH Zurich in Switzerland and Microsoft Research Cambridge in the UK – a scalable new OS architecture for multi-core systems
It can be downloaded from here:
I can’t believe that you’re promoting a project in which Microsoft is participating.
It is quite impressive proof-of-concept OS, I can imagine Linux implementing something like that long before Microsoft moves to Windows 8.
Actually there is an open source project Grand Central, which aims to make multi-core applications support easier. The thing is it’s an API, not a whole OS. Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages…
Another problem for some of us (not me obviously) is that it originates from Apple…:)
But it’s not fully open-sourced yet, is it? I also read that there are several fully open-sourced solutions available already.
It is fully open-source already a month or two.
Less than a month ago for sure, but I remember that only parts of the whole thing got open-sourced and under an incompatible with Linux license. Anyway, I don’t plan to move back to C/C++ and neither to start using Objective-C so it’s of no use to me. For parallel programming, Java has everything I need, but I also see myself using Scala or Erlang in the near future.
Everything Apple opensouced is compatible with Linux Licenses (WebKit, Darwin) as far as I know.
Otherwise I hear a lot of buzz about Scala and Erland these days, but for know I’m in the kernel level C land (and PHP for some private projects)…:)
Stop it, appel fanboi, you! I think Ars Technica knows better!
PHP sucks even though it’s my day job now. One of the best Web frameworks today is Lift, which is based on Scala. Erlang is a different beast, which even Amazon AWS is using. So, it’s not just buzz around those two. There are many projects using Erlang nowadays. Twitter is using Scala for all their backend stuff.
BTW, here’s a fresh off the oven Erlang-based Web Framework ridiculously named Chicago Boss.
One last pro-Erlang comment… Yaws is one of the fastest web servers known to date which outperforms Apache. You can find many other benchmarks on the web, but they all use static content, which is not a real World benchmark (unless you’re running a porn site).
Having in mind that porn is 80% of internet traffic, static content tests are more then enough…:)
Disagree. It’s not porn but marketing landing sites, that drive static web forward. Porn has already moved to Web 2.0 services to the most part.
Truly my last comment – pinkie promise! Look at one newer Erlang Web server, which has a Comet-based chatroom implemented in 57 lines of code!
The OS in question is a prototype OS used as a testbed for development of a new kernel and libraries for better support of multi-core processotrs. It’s nothing a consumer should be excited about, but it makes sense for Microsoft to test technology on a clear slate rather than try to cram it in Windows 7 and spend twice the time working around limitations. Besides, Windows 8 is still supported to be a complete rewrite, breaking compatibility except for VM-ing old apps…
Here’s an interesting robotics project: iCub, the Toddler Robot. Go check it out!
This video makes you think about how kids learn, a specially if you have kids 
I personally think that reproducing human behavior can be quite difficult taking in consideration the billions of years of evolution. But from experience, I think that it can be useful to cheat a bit and model behavior with mathematical models that we know are not the ones human brain uses… For example while working at MASA Group I’ve created a model (weighted graph) that represented a map and simple behavior principles and applied a simple A* shortest path algorithm that eventually preformed better in terms of motion planning than some PHD cognitive research projects and while writing this I’ve realized that my work has a name now: behavior pathfinding. The thing that can be quite exiting is to find a simple way to determine position in space for example using ultrasound and triangulation and implement simple robot that use “behavior pathfinding” to navigate it-self around. A free way to model and test this positioning system can be http://www.scilab.org/
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It seems that we can’t see what the other options are… so it would be nice if we add them as a comments. I was not expecting to see a lot of votes for google, but with google apps and JEE engine it seems that it has a lot of potential.