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Hiya. If you need my help with a Wagn issue, please [[/new/Support_Ticket |add a Support Ticket]] so other community members can see/join the discussion. If you just want to talk smack, smack it here :)
Hi Ethan, I found your page here from a link on a discussion section somewhere else on the site. It looks like you contribute software development to the project. Are you the primary tech lead/software contributor? I am also a software developer, although lately have been becoming a generalist. (I also happened to live in Charlotte, NC for 3 years for my first job out of college - fun, diverse city).
Anyway, I recently discovered Wagn and got very excited learning about its design. The flexible, atomic CMS/card data structure really intrigued me. I have recently co-founded a nonprofit organization based on creating community and am currently helping design community management software for it. I am always on the lookout for new tools to use and learn from. I am considering using Wagn for some of our Project/team management and Wiki needs. Ideally I would like to pick a platform that is fully-featured and/or highly extensible, and that has a strong community base. I believe with the card structure it is fairly extensible. However I didn't notice too much development/community activity lately. Is the project still actively being developed? Could you tell me the current state of the project and team working on it? I saw some mention of future plans and upgrades on the site. Are those still actively pursued?
Thank you,
Andrew
--Andrew (Not signed in).....2016-05-22 18:14:38 UTC
Hi Andrew,
I'm in the middle of moving from Colorado to Pennsylvania this week, so I hope you'll forgive my short answers:
- I'm Wagn's lead architect and the cofounder of the nonprofit behind Wagn. At this point am doing less coding than others, especially our lead developer [[Philipp Kuehl]]. We also have 2-3 very generous volunteer coders who have made immense contributions to the codebase.
- The project is definitely very active, though the Wagn.org website has gotten a bit less attention lately. We've released new [[https://rubygems.org/gems/wagn/|gem versions]] twice this month, and the codebase is improving rapidly.
- Much of the Wagn community is currently focusing efforts on WikiRate.org, a Wagn-based website funded by the European Commission. This includes two full-time developers at Cambridge University who make extensive contributions to the Wagn core as well as driving an intensive implementation that pushes Wagn design and optimization.
- We'll be renaming "Wagn" to "Decko" soon, and there will be a major push to update the site (will be decko.org) and to build a lot more community. We expect the community will expand pretty dramatically in 2017.
- Wagn is definitely highly extensible. In fact, we've come to think of it more as a development framework than an extensible app. I expect to produce a lot of documentation about the mod API this summer, because enhancing the API has been a major priority in recent months.
In a couple of weeks, when I'm settled into my new home, I'd be interested in hearing more about what you're up to and whether Wagn could help!
- ethan
--[[Ethan McCutchen]].....2016-05-23 17:38:47 UTC
Ethan,
Thank you very much for your response; it was very informative. There is plenty of material and repo code to look through so I'm looking forward to delving deeper into that. I will also look into WikiRate some more to see how it utilizes Wagn.
Good luck with your move! I'm looking forward to engaging more later.
Thank you,
Andrew
--Andrew (Not signed in).....2016-05-25 15:30:46 UTC
Hiya. If you need my help with a Wagn issue, please [[/new/Support_Ticket |add a Support Ticket]] so other community members can see/join the discussion. If you just want to talk smack, smack it here :)
Hi Ethan, I found your page here from a link on a discussion section somewhere else on the site. It looks like you contribute software development to the project. Are you the primary tech lead/software contributor? I am also a software developer, although lately have been becoming a generalist. (I also happened to live in Charlotte, NC for 3 years for my first job out of college - fun, diverse city).
Anyway, I recently discovered Wagn and got very excited learning about its design. The flexible, atomic CMS/card data structure really intrigued me. I have recently co-founded a nonprofit organization based on creating community and am currently helping design community management software for it. I am always on the lookout for new tools to use and learn from. I am considering using Wagn for some of our Project/team management and Wiki needs. Ideally I would like to pick a platform that is fully-featured and/or highly extensible, and that has a strong community base. I believe with the card structure it is fairly extensible. However I didn't notice too much development/community activity lately. Is the project still actively being developed? Could you tell me the current state of the project and team working on it? I saw some mention of future plans and upgrades on the site. Are those still actively pursued?
Thank you,
Andrew
--Andrew (Not signed in).....2016-05-22 18:14:38 UTC
Hi Andrew,
I'm in the middle of moving from Colorado to Pennsylvania this week, so I hope you'll forgive my short answers:
- I'm Wagn's lead architect and the cofounder of the nonprofit behind Wagn. At this point am doing less coding than others, especially our lead developer [[Philipp Kuehl]]. We also have 2-3 very generous volunteer coders who have made immense contributions to the codebase.
- The project is definitely very active, though the Wagn.org website has gotten a bit less attention lately. We've released new [[https://rubygems.org/gems/wagn/|gem versions]] twice this month, and the codebase is improving rapidly.
- Much of the Wagn community is currently focusing efforts on WikiRate.org, a Wagn-based website funded by the European Commission. This includes two full-time developers at Cambridge University who make extensive contributions to the Wagn core as well as driving an intensive implementation that pushes Wagn design and optimization.
- We'll be renaming "Wagn" to "Decko" soon, and there will be a major push to update the site (will be decko.org) and to build a lot more community. We expect the community will expand pretty dramatically in 2017.
- Wagn is definitely highly extensible. In fact, we've come to think of it more as a development framework than an extensible app. I expect to produce a lot of documentation about the mod API this summer, because enhancing the API has been a major priority in recent months.
In a couple of weeks, when I'm settled into my new home, I'd be interested in hearing more about what you're up to and whether Wagn could help!
- ethan
--[[Ethan McCutchen]].....2016-05-23 17:38:47 UTC
Ethan,
Thank you very much for your response; it was very informative. There is plenty of material and repo code to look through so I'm looking forward to delving deeper into that. I will also look into WikiRate some more to see how it utilizes Wagn.
Good luck with your move! I'm looking forward to engaging more later.
Thank you,
Andrew
--Andrew (Not signed in).....2016-05-25 15:30:46 UTC