[p2pu-dev] [p2pu-community] P2PU API user story

[Brian Brennan]

FYI, There's a django project for it that should make integrating a much
simpler task: https://github.com/mozilla/django-browserid, docs @
http://django-browserid.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html.

Brian


On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Jos Flores <josmasflores at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dirk, I think it is Dan Diebolt that uses yql to do data mining and
> has used it on P2PU... Dan, are you reading this?
> This is the tool: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
>
> agree with Jessy but it's a chicken and egg problem after all; I
> haven't read much about browserID but it's Mozilla, so I'm sure it's
> awesome.
> When I read stuff like "user’s online identity with our core values of
> user control, safety, and convenience" can't help but feeling warm and
> cozy!
> Leveraging browserID/Persona(
> http://identity.mozilla.com/post/18038609895/introducing-mozilla-persona)
> to offer auth would be a nice project indeed.
>
> cheers,
> José
>
>
> On 11 June 2012 14:54, Jessy Kate Schingler <jessy at jessykate.com> wrote:
> > as a use case, i am planning to install statusnet (the open source
> twitter
> > clone) to explore a different interface for easily creating massive
> > distributed courses with low overhead. it would be nice if that
> integrated
> > with p2pu.org auth at a minimum. one idea is that we could essentially
> use
> > statusnet as the discussion component, and still use p2pu study group to
> > host the static content.
> >
> > i was initially of the same mind as jos, feeling that there are many
> things
> > we still need to do to build out lernanta. and that perhaps working on
> the
> > API will spread dirk's limited time too thin? also, have people even been
> > using the read-only API yet?
> >
> > on the other hand, creating an api lets our community branch out a little
> > more freely while still using core services of p2pu, thus perhaps keeping
> > certain people and projects more closely integrated, where they might
> > otherwise fork off on their own altogether.
> >
> > one of things we have always discussed was the idea to offer an open ID,
> > where people could also host their open badge backpacks. maybe focusing
> on
> > exposing an auth component is a good piece of the API to focus on?
> >
> > jessy
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Jos Flores <josmasflores at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dirk, that is exactly the chicken and egg problem we had in the first
> >>> attempt of an API; no one can come up with clear examples. There was
> >>> some discussion, some neat ideas such as widgets to embed certain info
> >>> in your own site, but nothing was really fleshed out. And nothing
> >>> really came up that cannot be done by scraping info from the site
> >>> (there's people already doing that!).
> >>
> >>
> >> Cool, do you know what they are scraping and what they are using the
> data
> >> for? It would be interesting to hear!
> >>
> >>> I do believe an API is important but I also have a feeling that it is
> >>> more important to us (APIs are just plain fun!) than it is for the
> >>> site right now.
> >>
> >>
> >> We can improve on many things non API related in the site. We should
> keep
> >> their priority high and try to avoid a situation where we promise bluer
> >> skies and greener grass once we have built an API :)
> >>
> >>> My bigger use case was a mobile app but I believe that making the site
> >>> responsive in mobile devices would be a better way of using resources.
> >>
> >>
> >> Agreed, we don't want to maintain separate Android and IOS apps.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I hope this does not sound harsh but to get people to use your API you
> >>> have to give them a quality service underneath that API. I don't think
> >>> Lernanta is at that stage yet. Having solid core services such as
> >>> authentication, mail integration, threading, integration with third
> >>> party services (OBI type of services), content embedding, a pluggable
> >>> and extensible architecture, and so on, would make people want to
> >>> build on top of Lernanta.
> >>
> >>
> >> We should identify the core services and focus on them so that we can
> >> deliver the quality you are talking about. I think part of this is that
> we
> >> need to know what to aim at.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Sorry it's not the answer that you wanted to hear but it's how I feel
> >>> about the topic right now :)
> >>
> >>
> >> No problem, it's good to hear how other people feel!
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> d
> >>
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