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[theo-armour]

@GMelencio @jamesAbantech

Everything today happens via a web site or app. Uber, Amazon, Craigslist, grocery coupons, you next doctor's appointment, whatever - all on the web.

Yet, Abatech has a sorry old static page. ;-(

We need much better dispersal of commits, communication, marcoms and whatever so that the GitHub API can be used to create fresh, useful web pages on the fly: Pages that both inform visitors and help us compare and contrast our efforts.

Probably the best way to start would be to tag or categorize the work that is being carried out, build repositories for the categories.

Once that happens and people commit to the different areas, the GitHub API can be used to track the number of commits, issues, and much more and thus be use to create dashboards on the fly.

To give you an idea of what's available via the API, click on these links - then click on the links they create

https://api.github.com/orgs/abantech/repos
https://api.github.com/orgs/abantech/events

Find out more here;

https://developer.github.com/v3/

Enjoy: http://abantech.net/interaction-studies/github-api/

The real issue in all this is to try to help us create useful and interesting products.

So far we have fired - like a shotgun - at many targets without hitting many bullseyes.

Let's work on ways of putting little miniature targets in front of each shotgun pellet. ;-)

Theo

[theo-armour]

@Abantech/core

Over on Jaanga, I am working on GitHub hosted web pages that fetch the latest data from GitHub each time you load the page.

The idea is to create a 'dashboard' that fulfills two essential criteria :

• New visitors are quickly informed and made to be excited about the efforts of the web site
• Old hands are informed as to where to go to see the latest updates

If you find this idea interesting, might you have any thoughts or - even better - links to a technical web site that handles something like this well?

[GMelencio]

Visual studio online has a live tile that does exactly that. It's got a
query behind it. I will be ressurecting our Visual Studio team project this
weekend since the work is picking back up. At that point the tile will
populate and I will send it over.

Meanwhile you can see it (albeit without data) at abantech.visualstudio.com

You can customize what goes on your own dashboard and tweak the queries and
such. No programming required, all drag N drop

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@Abantech/core https://github.com/orgs/Abantech/teams/core

Over on Jaanga, I am working on GitHub hosted web pages that fetch the
latest data from GitHub each time you load the page.

The idea is to create a 'dashboard' that fulfills two essential criteria :

• New visitors are quickly informed and made to be excited about the
  efforts of the web site
• Old hands are informed as to where to go to see the latest updates

If you find this idea interesting, might you have any thoughts or - even
better - links to a technical web site that handles something like this
well?

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[theo-armour]

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Do you see how you could tweak VS online so that it's customized/branded and updates itself so that it serves as a fun/inviting/useful Abantech home page?

[GMelencio]

We can either hook into their API or we can hack their base code (open
source now!) to suit our needs.

It might be ASP.NET - if so, is that hostable by Github?

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Do you see how you could tweak VS online so that it's customized/branded
and updates itself so that it serves as a fun/inviting/useful Abantech home
page?

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[theo-armour]

It might be ASP.NET - if so, is that hostable by Github?

Any code you want can sit in a repo.

GitHub pages serves data via http. With a few small exceptions, Pages does not prcessing of data. No PHP or perl etc.

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Here are the abantech stats for the past year:

https://github.com/Abantech/abantech.github.io/graphs/traffic

8 unique visitors. This sucks.

Something needs to be done here.

GitHub pages and readme files are searched by GitHub

The GitHub API makes, comments and more all easily accessible.

How can we use Efficio messaging tools to create interesting, self-updating web pages?

[GMelencio]

8 unique visitors. This sucks.

8 unique visitors is about right. We haven't really been publicizing our
repo because the state and structure have been subject to change for a
while. We don't even have a license scheme yet so, I'm not sure if bring
this out there is prudent. I do plan to expand this to the larger community
very soon, I am hoping we can get our ducks in a row soon to be able to do
so. Your comments on what we're doing are helpful, and action on these
would be even more greatly appreciated. You are owner of the repo as much
as we are. As far as Git/Github goes @jamesAbantech and I are fairly noobs,
so feel free to enact the changes you see fit.

How cab we use Efficio messaging tools to create interesting, self-updating

web pages?

@theo-armour: Efficio is meant to process messages that come from gesture
control devices, we've expanded it enough to hook up to voice and even
events from the game engines themselves, however, expanding it to this
degree to make self-updating webpages, while doable, I fear may drive us
toward over-generalization. There are other tools that can do this easily -
data visualization tools or, if more some simple rules are needed we can
even use IFTTT.

Can you provide some specific requirements on the self-updating pages? If
you can define for us please what would be the stimuli and the expected
result that would be a great help in defining the method by which we
approach this.

Greg Melencio
CEO and Founder
Abantech LLC
571-402-4688

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It might be ASP.NET - if so, is that hostable by Github?

Any code you want can sit in a repo.

GitHub pages serves data via http. With a few small exceptions, Pages does

not prcessing of data. No PHP or perl etc.

Here are the abantech stats for the past year:

https://github.com/Abantech/abantech.github.io/graphs/traffic

8 unique visitors. This sucks.

Something needs to be done here.

GitHub pages and readme files are searched by GitHub

The GitHub API makes, comments and more all easily accessible.

How cab we use Efficio messaging tools to create interesting,
self-updating web pages?

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[theo-armour]

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Can you provide some specific requirements on the self-updating pages?

jaanga terrain3: 2016-08-12 ~ Three Column Home Page #5

The post was written in response to your question. In other words the effort has multiple uses and appearances.

[theo-armour]

@Abantech/core

Your turn:

Can you provide specific requirements for the timeliness of the Abantech web presence?

[GMelencio]

8/29 - Set up blogging channel via WordPress and add initial content
video/post
8/27 - Create Instagram account and flood with archived posts from way back
when
8/30 - Integrate, link to Facebook Instagram & Twitter page from main
website
8/30 - Update Abantech.net site to embed with sections from WordPress site
(I.e I frame?)

As far as content goes, I want to wrote about our thoughts and
accomplishments at least weekly. Provide links to demos and downloable
content. We need to create some tutorial videos to show people how easy
Efficio can be integrated into their apps

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Your turn:

Can you provide specific requirements for the timeliness of the Abantech
web presence?

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[theo-armour]

Blogging is very nice, but it's something that, personally, I find hard to do.

If nothing else you need an editor so you don't wrote things like this:

As far as content goes, I want to wrote about our thoughts

But the real difficulty is getting the eyeballs. And even if you have eyeballs on your blog, will any of them buy your product??

For me a good web presence is much more about being first in the search results when a business person or engineer has a specific query.

Somebody types in - say - 'oculus leap maya' and I want to be right there. No blogging necessary. Just a web site with detailed feature lists, specs and docs.

You have many skills - especially in terms of presentation and persistence - let's figure out ways of using these to good advantage.

We need to create some tutorial videos to show people how easy [sic] Efficio can be integrated into their apps

Why do you need a video to show 'easy'? I thought videos were needed only when it's not easy. ;-)

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What we really need to do is drill down hard into the product. Turn it from flim-flam into something that's doable and usable and monetizable.

[GMelencio]

Thank you so much for your insightful response. Here's my response to your
questions:

Blogging is very nice, but it's something that, personally, I find hard to
do.

Yes, it's hard to do if we had to do it all ourselves. But we don't
necessarily have to do it OURSELVES, this is one of the activities I feel
we could and should outsource. People do this for a living - and it's not
all that complicated. We can write a short paragraph, or a couple of
sentences add a few links and ask someone who would work for us for $3/hour
to turn it into a blog post. This is called Workforce Automation. - as you
will see in my incoming reply to your other thread THAT is one of the
things James and I are working on figuring out.

And even if you have eyeballs on your blog, will any of them buy your

product??
For me a good web presence is much more about being first in the search
results when a business person or engineer has a specific query.

Somebody types in - say - 'oculus leap maya' and I want to be right there.

No blogging necessary. Just a web site with detailed feature lists, specs
and docs.

The blogging is about establishing credibility and sharing the knowledge
that we have. Even if outsourced, the off-shore people doing the work would
just be adding additional content to what we've already been thinking of or
have discovered for ourselves. They'd simply be piecing together the idea
and/or elaborating on it, providing supporting content, etc. The core
concept or the "TL;DR" (so to speak) comes from us alone.

That's not to say it's the only way we can establish credibility or provide
more clarity into what we do, but it is my belief that the more we give to
the community the more we can get back in return. It's rather karmic in a
way.

You have many skills - especially in terms of presentation and persistence

• let's figure out ways of using these to good advantage.

Why do you need a video to show 'easy'? I thought videos were needed only
when it's not easy. ;-)

People would prefer a 2-minute video to reading for 2 minutes. It's been
shown to work in retaining an audience's attention. Plus it's a hell of a
lot easier for me to create. That's not to say we can't write it all up in
a single page with a screenshot or two. Which we're working on as well,
maybe summarizing the video into words is also something we can outsource.
Just a thought.

What we really need to do is drill down hard into the product. Turn it from

flim-flam into something that's doable and usable and monetizable.

That's #1 on our list of priorities and is, a matter of fact, a central in
the agenda of two meetings we have today; one with our mentor, one with
Chad*

*Chad Levrini - someone we're considering bringing aboard to help with the
business side of things, he's asking very good questions along these same
lines - I'd happily forward to you.

The difficulty with "figuring out" what to drill-down on however is
participation within the group. For the most part the ideas and discussions
have been between James and myself while productive I fear that we're
experiencing some form of myopia due to who deeply involved with the
product we've been. All other feedback we get that would help us "dive
deeper" come from people with a very cursory understanding of what we do. I
believe that we DO need to get to that point, but need help getting there,
however, to achieve real results in the form of actionable ideas, we need
help. I, in particular, need YOUR help. Without a doubt your questions
and comments are very and are thoroughly appreciated, but I can promise
that with an even slightly deeper understanding of where we are, our
conversations would be significantly more productive.

You said live discussions are for brainstorming; would you join us for a
session or two? James leaves on Sept 5th so if you could spare an few
minutes of your time to go through where we are today and help figure these
things out, I call all but guarantee that we can achieve the level of
effectiveness in our work that you so describe.

Greg Melencio
CEO and Founder
Abantech LLC
571-402-4688

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Theo Armour notifications@github.com
wrote:

Blogging is very nice, but it's something that, personally, I find hard to
do.

If nothing else you need an editor so you don't wrote things like this:

As far as content goes, I want to wrote about our thoughts

But the real difficulty is getting the eyeballs. And even if you have
eyeballs on your blog, will any of them buy your product??

For me a good web presence is much more about being first in the search
results when a business person or engineer has a specific query.

Somebody types in - say - 'oculus leap maya' and I want to be right there.
No blogging necessary. Just a web site with detailed feature lists, specs
and docs.

You have many skills - especially in terms of presentation and persistence

• let's figure out ways of using these to good advantage.

We need to create some tutorial videos to show people how easy [sic]
Efficio can be integrated into their apps

Why do you need a video to show 'easy'? I thought videos were needed only

when it's not easy. ;-)

What we really need to do is drill down hard into the product. Turn it
from flim-flam into something that's doable and usable and monetizable.

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[theo-armour]

This thread now has like 23 topics. Threads like this become highly aimless. Does anybody see a good reason for keeping it alive?

[GMelencio]

We should at least close it out with a resolution. Of the actions
suggested, a breif summary of what has been agreed upon (i.e. what has been
suggested that wasn't shot down).

What I have is as follows to date:

Blog for updating main site - that is embedding a wordpress feed into the
Abantech.net webpage
Instagram & Additional Social media Reach via regular postings
Asana for Task Management
Using Github for collaboration
Content creation with the help of a developer other than James/Greg

What on this list should come into our plan?

Greg Melencio
CEO and Founder
Abantech LLC
571-402-4688

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This thread now has like 23 topics. Threads like this become highly
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[theo-armour]

https://davidwalsh.name/45-github-issues-dos-donts

See Rule #2

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We should at least close it out with a resolution. Of the actions
suggested, a breif summary of what has been agreed upon (i.e. what has been
suggested that wasn't shot down).

What I have is as follows to date:

Blog for updating main site - that is embedding a wordpress feed into the
Abantech.net webpage
Instagram & Additional Social media Reach via regular postings
Asana for Task Management
Using Github for collaboration
Content creation with the help of a developer other than James/Greg

What on this list should come into our plan?

Greg Melencio
CEO and Founder
Abantech LLC
571-402-4688

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