We often do demonstrations at conferences we go to, and if we're near you in person we'd probably be happy to do a demo with you too.

Show adding or at least viewing/editing an existing card, and how editing something in one place results in change elsewhere. Then go through these, eventually showing how that was Wagneered:

Open/close main card, sidebar card.
Add a card, type something, save.

nesting

Include a relevant card with view:open, save.
Show that it's a regular card by opening, closing, editing, going close the card's page.

Cardtypes

Edit and copy the content of the card you've been working with.
Create a Cardtype for that kind of card (explaining it will now show up in the menu).

structure

Show a +*type+*content card.

Whenever compound names come up, explain them as necessary.

CQL

Create a Search card and show all users - {"type": "User"}
Change it to show all Users' e-mail addresses - {"right", "email"}

virtual cards

Show tags on Include documentation and more by default
Open in tabs:
- peers with tag+*right+*structure
- Feature+*type+*structure
...and explain relationship

(Also see Geek Intro Slide, Ethan's more recent slide show.)

Here are notes from some demonstrations we've done:

2009:

Wagn ran the conference wiki — http://2009rcc.org/

Idea to show other user editing when in a conflict.

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2008:

Ludovic of XWiki:

Liked everything a card; also confusing, need to hide in some places.

Need custom UI in many places anyway.

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Newton: Draw a diagram of relationship among: card, relative inclusion, Cardtype, forms

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At RecentChangesCamp 2007 in Portland, we did speed intros.

Typical intro:
* Wiki is to word processing what Wagn is to database - users can evolve data structures over time, step by step, rather than having to sit down with a database designer, figure it all out in advance and be more or less stuck with it.
* cards rather than pages; each page has a bunch of cards.
* connections/connection cards - like fields of the card you're on.
* ease of editing
* data types, validation
* card types -> tag cloud when creating new cards
* ask if people want to play with it later, and invite them to wagn.org on the spot.

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Things we learned:

Some interest in http://wikiwyg.org/

Dan Mendell suggested we look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system

Prototype-based classification - George Lakoff, Eleanor Roche, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Antonio (Prototype-based categorization)
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/4646/http:zSzzSzwww.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.dezSz~kehrzSzbibzSzbasic-proglangzSzPhilPrototypes.pdf/taivalsaari96classes.pdf

Ian Henderson? (Vendor Relationships Management) - defined human life in 3000

I did a lot of demos at BeaverBarCamp. Several were 45 minutes - long enough to get through the Demonstrations+for geeks with time left over. One was five minutes in front of the whole group, and i didn't quite get to WQL (though i mentioned it as time ran out, and someone in the audience yelled out, "it gets cooler!"). Notes on what i did below, followed by some responses, things i learned, etc. Thanks to everyone there who was interested to learn about Wagn! --John Abbe

Feedback, etc.

Ticket system is a good demo (for geeks)

Ask people:

Are you using something, and wondering how Wagn might be different?

Create a competitor Cardtype - list their important features

create one for Wagn describing all such features, then can show Tables comparing

Suggested features:

implement required fields on forms

Basic import

embed cardtype

drawing cardtype

separate back and front completely

API (in general, and especially for import/export)

instant messaging cardtype

drag & drop cards into the sidebar

support simple import and export

Swallow some TiddlyWiki features (possible use for the space under the main card!) - http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

Start by showing what it looks like in an already-built system, uninterrupted, then demo the underguts. (suggestion from Chuck Langenberg and others; he also sent us an e-mail with website/demo advice)

Someone suggested we talk w a group @PSU: Lois Delcambre, Dave Meyer re arbitrary metadata and annotations for documents

Outlining Cardtype

Another possible name for pointers - stacks?

live faceted search

line:card, closed:open, how about collapsed:expanded?

"So are programmers obsolete now?" --Jesse Hallett (CloudFS guy)

John Sechrest Drupal - CCK (content creation kit), Views, panels, faceted search (re nodes, making everything a card)

September 3, 2008 - Chicago

Who: Michael Maranda, Ted Ernst, Regula Frey, Jean Nurture Girl Russell, Gerry Gleason, Lewis Hoffman, John Abbe, Ethan McCutchen

(Friday we demoed to Laura Hale and Susan Muldowney. Laura suggested http://sniki.org/ as something that could use Wagn's structure. Also asked how Google views Wagns - e.g., inclusions in view:content are not going to be treated as links!)

Use cases

next gen project management

(incl pre-project stuff & fewer assumptions - eg maybe you're not in one org together, don't have a project already, etc.)

constituent/donor mgmt (CRM)

+hooks to other systems
(do for Grass Commons!)

Card creation scripting

(Gerry)

create a card creation language so that you can create scripts

have Wagn export sets of cards to that language, and run that language to create card

What else should/could we do? (would make it possible/fun for me to Wagneer?)

ease of install (Ted)

create initial Screencasts

Others to look at: Commoncraft re wiki, Ted's for AboutUs

break current demo into ~five chunks - 1) wiki intro (editable, Recent, etc.); 2)

Etc.

http://www.plurk.com/Help/socialJournal

Opportunity: Social Media Practices

http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2008/09/ive-been-thinki.html

guildsmiths.com (Jean, Nancy, etc.) is discussing taking on active stewardship

1) Ideally (from GC's perspective), they want to use Hooze, in which case no fee.

2) Willing to offer a three month free trial otherwise.

Here's a sandbox Wagn: http://sandbox.wagn.org

Remember to always offer people accounts on wagn.org

A survey example:

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