Re: ActiviPy 0.1 release: feedback welcome!

I really like the way you've made it accessible without requiring knowledge
of JSON-LD unless the user wants to use it, I think it will help a lot of
people.

Thanks for your hard work!
Shane

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Christopher Allan Webber <
cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> So I haven't been participating in the conversations on-list (even
> though I have strong opinions) lately, because I've been hacking like
> mad to get out the first release of Activipy, v0.1!
>
>   http://activipy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
>   https://github.com/w3c-social/activipy
>
> Some things I think are interesting about Activipy:
>  - It wraps ActivityStreams documents in pythonic style objects
>
>  - Has a nice and extensible method dispatch system that even works well
>    with ActivityStreams/json-ld's composite types.
>
>  - It has an "Environment" feature: different applications might need
>    to represent different vocabularies or extensions, and also might
>    need to hook up entirely different sets of objects.
>
>  - It hits a good middle ground in keeping things simple, until you need
>    complexity.  Everything's "just json", until you need to get into
>    extension-land, in which case json-ld features are introduced.
>    (Under the hood, that's always been there, but users don't
>    necessarily need to understand json-ld to work with it.)
>
>  - Good docs!  I think!  Or I worked really hard on them, at least!
>
> The docs, I think, are a good guide into how to get up and running
> with ActivityStreams and make it useful for your application:
>
>   http://activipy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
>
> Please do read, try it out, and give feedback!
>
> Happy hacking,
>  - Chris
>
>


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