[FM Discuss] special preview

[Michael McAndrew]

Hey Pierre,

Great - glad to hear that :)  Looking forward to seeing more.

Michael

On 11 October 2011 12:03, Pierre Commenge <emoc at codelab.fr> wrote:

> **
> Michael,
>
> This particular visualisation is purposed to answer the question "what did
> people do on different days?", that's why it's participant centered.
> There are other possible views, and particularly a document centered one,
> as you said, which would tell other stories on the ongoing sprint.
> This preview is mostly a start to view FM datas, and there still are many
> improvements to add.
>
> Pierre
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Michael McAndrew <michaelmcandrew at thirdsectordesign.org>
> *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> *Cc:* Pierre Commenge <emoc at codelab.fr>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 11, 2011 12:41 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [FM Discuss] special preview
>
> Hey there,
>
> It worked for me.  Looks very great.
>
> Did you think about putting the chapters / sections on the vertical axis
> and having the people as different colours?  IMO deciding what to put on the
> axis depends on what question you want to answer.
>
> I think the current format is good for questions like 'What did people do
> on different days?" and other questions where the emphasis is on
> participants and the social side of the sprint.  Having the book structure
> on the vertical is better to answer questions like "What sections did we
> start with and which ones haven't got any love / which ones do we need to
> do" and other questions where the emphasis is on the content and structure
> of the book.
>
> Obviously both questions are important in different situations but for me,
> the structure view is more useful during a sprint.  I am wondering if we
> could create both views and be able to switch between them?
>
> PS. I did a couple of videos recently using gource that showed 7 years
> civicrm development.  I made two, one which had directory names (good for
> looking at the code) and one which only had the names of committers (good
> for concentrating on the community).
>
> Michael
>
> On 10 October 2011 14:05, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> There is much to report on from the FM meet up and I am now assembling the
>> minutes.I should have them for the list in the next days. I will first send
>> to everyone that was there to add items if anything is missing.
>>
>> ok...so, now a very special preview. As everyone probably knows, the
>> French FM has been very active and when I asked the list a while back for
>> someone to do some RSS visualisation the French FM stepped up. Elisa
>> introduced me to Pierre Commenge and Pierre agreed to work on the RSS
>> visualisation.
>>
>> The idea is to try and provide a good visualisation of how books are made.
>> This is a good tool, something very nice to look at, and also potentially it
>> may offer in time some very very valuable research possibilities for
>> analysing the process of how books are actually made.
>>
>> Aco is doing some customisation of the RSS output to give Pierre better
>> data to work with but in the meantime Adam Thomas is presenting a preview of
>> Pierres work on this tonight at a presentation about Booki in New York at
>> the Mobility Shifts conference. So, also for the FM list is a special
>> preview...its alpha stage and for our eyes only, but here is (with Pierres
>> blessing) a preview of his work when applied to data produced by Book over a
>> 2.5 hour period during the CiviCRM Book Sprint a few weeks ago...enjoy!:
>> http://emoc.org/fmviz/0.5/
>>
>> adam
>>
>>
>>
>>
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