[p2pu-dev] P2PU API

Alison Jean Cole alisonjean.cole at gmail.com
Mon May 30 21:50:09 UTC 2011


When the details of Philipp's questions are sussed out we should make sure
to get these development priorities into the roadmap (
http://wiki.p2pu.org/w/page/36991876/Roadmap-2011) (which needs cleaning and
updating).
ALISON
new.p2pu.org/en/alison/ <http://p2pu.org/users/alison>





On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com>wrote:

> I hadn't thought about visualisations - but yes, that would be cool and
> incredibly useful for SoW when reporting back to our other stakeholders :-)
>
>
> On 30 May 2011 16:05, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I could see two different use-cases for APIs (and I'd love to hear about
>> others). One would be to give access to system statistics, and let people
>> create cool data visualizations, etc faster than if they had to have all
>> their code written in Python and included int he official platform. The
>> other is if someone actually wanted to develop a stand-alone client for
>> P2PU, for example for a mobile platform. I'm more interested in #1, and it
>> seems more doable (we are a much less stable platform than Twitter in terms
>> of functionality, and I don't immediately see the use of a stand-alone
>> client, neither do I expect anyone to put tons of time into developing one).
>> But I'd love to hear from others what uses you expect.
>>
>> Stian
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 19:53, Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Can I add in an additional question for this - as I know it would provide
>>> more clarity when explaining the benefits for me and other less actively
>>> geeky community members. I'm only feeling 23.768% geek today :-)
>>> *
>>> How do we imagine the API being used?
>>>
>>> *Er, am I right in assuming that an API would allow people to build
>>> tools to pull and push data onto the system? So theoretically a tool might
>>> be built to allow offline creation of course and group content such as
>>> tasks?
>>>
>>> Or a wordpress plugin might be built using the API which would allow
>>> users to submit a blog post as a response to a task?
>>>
>>> Obviously, the great thing about APIs is that they really allow
>>> interesting mashups to occur which we can't really predict - but it is
>>> really helpful to know what types of things could obviously be developed
>>> using this.
>>>
>>> On 30 May 2011 09:05, Philipp Schmidt <phi.schmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A P2PU API has come up on various threads. It's an interesting idea. Can
>>>> we get a little more concrete on the following points, so we can get
>>>> feedback from community and board, as well as determine prioritization vs.
>>>> other development needs?
>>>>
>>>> * What are the concrete benefits to P2PU? (drawbacks, risks?)
>>>>
>>>> * What is the effort needed to implement, support?
>>>> - paid staff vs. volunteer contributions
>>>>
>>>> * What are the actual next steps to move this forward?
>>>>
>>>> Best - P
>>>>
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