Re: ActiviPy 0.1 release: feedback welcome!

Thanks Shane!  I was really hoping that would come through.

I think the approach ActiviPy takes may be a good gateway drug into
linked data land, without requiring that someone be there from the
beginning.  That path is totally open to you, and (hopefully) made
interesting to explore, without increasing the level of cognitive load
to get started and hit the ground running.


Shane Hudson writes:

> 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
>>
>>

Received on Tuesday, 3 November 2015 21:27:03 UTC