[L2Ork-dev] GSoC 2019: Interested in contributing to the "Core Accessibility" project

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Hello S. Shashank,

Welcome!

1. I believe there is some prior art here:
http://artengine.ca/desiredata/download/
This is an abandoned project that attempted to make lots of
improvements to the language and UI.

One of the UI improvements in DesireData was a way to navigate and
create connections among objects
with the keyboard.

I believe that project will still successfully compile on a Gnu/Linux
distro. Let me know if you have
trouble compiling or finding the keyboard shortcuts for navigation.

Also, there are some screenshots and screencasts of DesireData here:

http://artengine.ca/desiredata/gallery/

One thing about the language is that the functionality in each box
tends to be fairly limited, so the user
really depends on making lots of connections in order to implement
their ideas. So making multiple connections,
disconnections, and inserting objects with the keyboard needs to be
ergonomic. Personally, I like the idea of
navigating around the boxes using something like Vim realtime pattern
matching. But there are probably
other ways to do it, too.

2. I have to admit I'm not sure what I was referring to there! I'll
investigate and try to figure it out...

In the meantime, thanks for your interest in our GSoC project and feel
free to post any more inquiries here.

-Jonathan

On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 11:16 AM S Shashank
<shashank.s at research.iiit.ac.in> wrote:
>
> Respected Purr Data Team,
>
> I am an undergraduate research student at IIIT Hyderabad (http://iiit.ac.in/) and am working at their Robotic's Vision Lab (https://robotics.iiit.ac.in/). I have worked with large codebases earlier, have prior open source experience (https://github.com/talsperre) and am familiar with languages like Python, C/C++ & JS. I have implemented a simple bash shell using C and a mini SQL using engine using python as part of my coursework.
>
> I found the work being done in Purr Data very exciting and would like to contribute to your organization as part of GSoC. In particular, I found the project on "Core Accessibility" particularly interesting as the ability to access the data diagram using the keyboard would enhance the user experience a lot.
>
> I would like to learn more about Purr Data and had a few questions about the project as well:
>
> 1) Has any previous work been done on the same problem? If yes, could you please provide a link for the same. Are there any other packages that provide such functionality right now?
> 2) Its mentioned in the project details that an interface exists to send data about each object from the core to the GUI. Is this a work in progress or has it already been completed?
>
> I have installed Purr data and am going through the codebase right now. Looking forward to work and contribute to Purr data.
>
> Regards,
> S. Shashank
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