Social Presence Page

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edit What (summary)

Photo by Ward taken 5 min ago
Photo by Ward taken 5 min ago

Create a page of recent webcam pictures that give a feeling of co-location to those who aren't.

edit Why this is important

This has the short term benefit of giving our remote members a sense of what is going on. A longer term benefit would be as a mechanism of social cooperation that we could offer to community projects.

edit DoneDone

  • There is a page of pictures that have a fixed layout and can be trivially updated.
  • There is a single button update mechanism deployed and in hourly use by at least four people in each of Portland and Lahore.

edit Steps to get to DoneDone

  • Establish a "reporter" mentality among folks with built-in cameras. Here is a picture taken with Photo Booth that is the sort of presence reporting that we could realistically report. Note that this is not a candid shot.
  • Label each picture by who shot it and how old it is. The age thing will require some dynamic content.

edit Resources