Let's talk about Glamorous Toolkit and Moldable Development

[girba]

Welcome to our community!

Our goal is to make the inside of software systems explainable. Yes, that's an ambitious goal, and we do know that the road is long. That's why we forged a vehicle: Glamorous Toolkit, the moldable development environment.

Moldable development embodies a simple idea: by creating tools that match the context of every development problem, we can fundamentally change how we perceive and reason about software. For that, we need an environment that allows us to create custom and expressive tools inexpensively. That's Glamorous Toolkit.

This constitutes a significant departure from the typical way programming happens today. And we are convinced that this is only the beginning. We built Glamorous Toolkit so that people can experience this idea live. Yet, the thing we want the most is to ignite a conversation about how the development experience should be and the impact it can have.

To get started, please comment below with an introduction of yourself. Tell us your dreams, your issues, your goals, your questions, your concerns. Tell us how people can help, and how you can help. Let's build the community.

Shifting how humans relate to software is a giant undertaking. The community is crucial. We built the initial technology, but the real work lies ahead, and it's really up to you. As we'll be at it for a while, let's build a kind community, too. An empathetic one. A community in which the way we feel is as important as the way we think. To get us started, let's consider one rule:

We should only say "I am sorry" if we hurt someone, but we can say "thank you" as many times as we want.

Let's get to it!

The feenk team

p.s. You can also find our community at discord.gg/FTJr9gP.

[offray]

Hi,

Thanks for taking into account the suggestions to open discussions on the repository.

My name is Offray Luna. I have a foot in academia, with undergrad studies are on informatics-mathematics, masters on education and PhD on design and creation and a foot on hacktivism as a funding member of the HackBo local hackerspace in 2010 and early activist for the Free/Libre culture movement (here is a small profile of me). Also I do consulting in places where design, cognition/education and data/visualization intertwine with communities of practice and institutions.

In such combination of endeavors and interest my inquiries are related with "how can we change the digital tools that change us?". For that, my hypothesis is to introduce highly self-referential digital systems inside communities and I developed Grafoscopio as a prototype to experiment/communicate such hypothesis and build other related prototypes.

I would like to see if GToolkit can be the base for building the next phase of Grafoscopio[*] and its related prototypes with our diverse community (which includes hacktivists, feminists, editors and self-publishers, researchers, designers and artists, among others) to continue the exploration about the reciprocal modification of digital tools and the communities around them, particularly in the context of amplifying civic voices and the commons and dealing with the complex issues we face in our times.

My expectations and dreams are related with self-referential (meta)systems to change communities (like GToolkit/Pharo) and my particular concerns are related with how can we bridge the futures we want with the present we have, for example in the context of tools like Grafoscopio, GToolkit and their related and interconnected communities.

[*]: I wrote a bliki (blog+wiki) entry about my evaluation of GToolkit.

[girba]

Welcome Offray!