# Another Run at the Fence
# Various Influences
## CDM Project
- A nice facelift
- Real users have shown weaknesses as well as strengths - good suggestions too
- Inspiration - community and L2L
## Rick and Matt's intro to CS in winter 2016
- Lively could/should be great for students
## Chance to get another intern or two
# Persona mea
- Fun graphical hacks
- Games
- Simulations
- Little kernels (text compression, etc)
- Fun musical hacks
# About Fun
- Make it fun; make it right; make it fast
- Lively is LIVE; it is mathematics brought to life
- JavaScript may not be the best language, but it still has several plusses
- real-world; widely used
- familiar syntax; reasonable object model
- there is fun to be had making skins with OMeta/Ohm
# Improvements
Please let's send some email regarding any that you think are important or not, any you would like to discuss further, and any you would like to contribute to
# ChangeSets and Stable Releases
Please know: I am not trying to make the serious developers work differently here. I just want casual developers to be able to fix something and pass around the fix or submit it for release without having to know about Git.
Also we need to minimize the chances that Lively will break - this has been tremendously destructive.
# CodeDB
Marko has thought and worked a lot on this - would be nice to get closure
# In-world Debugger
Robert and Marko have both done a lot on this - it needs to be used and should be written up for documentation and to get some credit.
# QA of bindings; "plugs"
Some of this exists and is used for visual connect.
Should be cleaned up and extended for Fabrik and BYO browser examples
# Freehand drawings in the world; better curve control
Bring sketching into our world.
Fix control point access for polylines
# Tiles; morphic action tiles
This can grow in many directions
Also unification of actions / buttons / menu tiems / prog tiles
# QA of deployment mode
Convenient ability to disable compostition actions (mainly halo)
Ability to deliver an app that doesn't depend on Lively
# QA of load time
What can be learned from the speed of wormhole loads?
# Language projects / Ohm in Lively
We could have some language fun with skins for JS
# Social framework: People, places projects, progress, passions
This has been on my list for a while