Anu + Rufus

• Get updates from Anu e.g. re vital strategies
  • Vital strategies meeting coming up
  • Very good BoE demo
    • What do they want: confidence, sustainability (they can pay b/c they want to, and freedom and back-stop if someone disappears)
• Rufus updates
  • Started DataHub Next and moved material over
    • https://datahub.io/notes/plan
    • https://datahub.io/notes/design
  • Question: what is product? (again!)
• Brainstorm directions and questions ✅2023-03-07 go with data canvas / data stories for now
  • Data Project
  • Data Canvas / Scratchpad
  • Data Stories
• What's the MVP 🚧2023-03-07 see https://app.excalidraw.com/l/9u8crB2ZmUo/8RvBmMyyL38
  • How would you edit the data stories locally ✅2023-03-07 maybe just use obsidian 😉 for now. see e.g. https://github.com/coddingtonbear/obsidian-csv-table
• Build my issue tree in the sky ✅2023-03-07 started at ../ultimate-issue-tree-2023-03-07.canvas
• AOB
  • I'm hesitating to put half-baked stuff on datahub-next. what do we think?
    • Option: stay with product repo and migrate things as more polished / finalized. => keep journal in product.
      • 👍 free and simple. no concern of half-baked stuff. comments / critique etc.
    • Option 2: go all in on datahub-next => keep most stuff there
      • 👍 think in public
      • 👍 potentially traffic etc
      • 👍 eat our dogfood with a public digital garden
      • Try it and see …
  • sveltekit: discussed and added to the great big question tree ✅2023-03-07 for now no compelling reason on our main projects to go with that
  • Need a good brand name for "users creating their own content with your data" e.g. Data Labs, Data Stories, Data Canvas, Data Scratchpad

Specific questions: #todo move this stuff to ultimate issue tree

• Single file vs multiple files multiple but can start with single file
• Small data vs big data small to meduim?

Rufus

Plan

• Content base plan 🚧2023-03-07 in progress below

Scratch

• datasette for our simple data APIs and browsing …
  • Loader: https://github.com/simonw/csvs-to-sqlite/
  • datasette lite
  • datasette itself
  • Publishing data (instructions for deploying to google cloud run): https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/publish.html

Ideas:

• Create a demo obsidian repo with data
• Essay: A modern lightweight data publishing workflow
  • Steps: publish, store, present
• Essay: (even simpler) Use obsidian as your desktop data publishing app
  • Question: non-technical user creating a dataset …
• Conversion of data and knowledge management in an org

Content Base

Architecture: https://app.excalidraw.com/l/9u8crB2ZmUo/1YKW635KsAU

• How would we do a blog with a good content base?
  • What objects do we have?
    • posts
      • date
      • authors: Reference(Person)
    • people
  • What components do we have?
    • Index page (listing)
    • Post page

Essays

Why we are using markdown as a our base format …

Why we are betting on markdown …

Why is markdown so special

Subject: Markdown is amazing and here's why (Markdown is the unix of formats / Markdown is eating the world / Markdown has superpowers, here's a few of them)

Question: what's so special about markdown?

#todo dig out the stuff i've done before.

• Plain text yet has all key features for rich text (not binary) … which means what
• Extensible
• Lots of tooling
• Structured data/content via frontmatter and blocks and unstructured
• Just right: simple but not too simple
• Can combine structured and unstructured content in one file
• Human-readable
• Human writable (and forgiving)

Issues

• Bundling assets e.g. images

Asides

• ask S re naming for pyramid stuff
• https://blot.im - a flowershow alternative
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/u7r2a5/a_free_open_source_obsidian_publish_alternative/ - on google first page for obsidian publish