Karma:Meeting 21 Sep 2009


 * 1) status of Subzero's Thesis
 * 2) The OLE Nepal devs want subzero to create the "Capacity" lesson in Karma. What does subzero think?  -- He will have to play with it more to understand the scope of work
 * 3) Pflores visit to Nepal and encouraging Uruguay to use Karma
 * 4) git Stuff
 * 5) Briefly discuss benefits of branching in git vs. creating temporary files like index1.html
 * 6) power of .gitignore and why we should use it
 * 7) Bryan needs admin rights to Karma repo
 * 8) KCD's return to Austria, how does he want to stay involved?
 * 9) SVG - what are our options?
 * 10) different libs
 * 11) raphaeljs?
 * 12) SVGWeb SVG Web is just for cross-browser rendering of SVG
 * 13) SVGKit (http://svgkit.sourceforge.net/)
 * 14) jquerySVG?
 * 15) dojox.gfx
 * 16) Criteria for Evaluating libraries
 * 17)  library download size
 * 18) strength of community behind lib
 * 19) Ease of use
 * 20) Any conflicts using together w/ jquery.karma.js
 * 21) Decisions
 * 22) We will test both dojox.gfx and raphaeljs
 * 23) We will meet 21:15 UTC Wednesday to decide which to use
 * 24) We will keep the chosen svg library separate from Karma and not integrate it
 * 25) Bryan will attempt to reimplement adding_up using the chosen svg library
 * 26) We will refactor Karma according to the SVG library chosen and this will take precedence over the other goals for release 0.2

The below Meeting Items are shelved awaiting a decision on SVG ---
 * 1) i18n - progress?
 * 2) Review for 0.2, are we on track?
 * 3) mpavel looking for more things to work on, what should we ask him to do?
 * 4) Narwhal and packaging
 * 5) Talk about how narwhal handles packaging
 * 6) Should we make karma a narwhal package?
 * 7) narwhal's method of managing modules and compiling all your project's dependencies into a single file is really sweet
 * 8) Update on Vaibhaw -- will be working on Karma full-time most likely starting this week
 * 9) Make sure everyone is clear why we should use only js 1.6 and what we can use from it -- filter, map, forEach
 * 10) Goals for this week
 * 11) i18n demo working
 * 12) parser script
 * 13) pass unmadindu's sample tests
 * 14) Narwhal
 * 15) Get narwhal working in browser
 * 16) Figure out how to build a package that contains all the dependencies for a project
 * 17) Clean up chakra so all 3 stages look nice
 * 18) Select an SVG library to work w/ or copy