Re: Loom presentation (Re: [Gzz] Agora next thursday inbct seminar presentations)

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:08:50PM +0200, Tuukka Hastrup wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> > > -Loom
> > 
> > I want to see it first ;) 
> > 
> > But would be very good.
> 
> So no-one's taken this yet? Loom would be Benja's area, but as he's not 
> here, I could present Loom-related issues. I should consult with him, 
> though. 

Very good plan.

> What do we want to say about it? The audience expects something not 
> technical at all? 

The problem is that I simply don't know. Which means that we have to

1) prepare very flexibly
2) gauge the audience reactions VERY carefully (if you watch people
carefully, you CAN see them either puzzled or bored).

Better to be slightly too simple than slightly too complex. They'll ask
if they're interested.

> We can explain what RDF is, how it's open (W3C), and how many other
> projects already use it (the Semantic Web). There are libraries we can use
> and there will be onthology and inference code we can use. Other RDF users
> can use our browser to edit their data, thus we can collaborate with them.
> Other people plan to use RDF in hypertextual systems as well 
> (bootstrap.org/open hypermedia system).

> If we have a vision about unifying Loom, PP and xupdf, I'd say that's 
> important as well. 

Yes, I'd start around there probably, explaining *where* loom is in our plans.

Then, about focus+context and our technologies (libvob) helping us
do this FAST (how many manhours did it take to get loom running, starting
from scratch? THAT's impressive)

> If the audience wonders about change from zzstructure, 
> we should tell something about the effects of the change as well.

I'd start from this, mentioning the causes and then move to the general vision. 

        Tuomas