#dat

(lukeburns) mafintosh: i'm working on a repository of reviews for arxiv articles and could use some advice on implementation. i want to store reviews (hyperdrives) in the repository so that all the reviews for a particular article are retrievable given an arxiv link (e.g. arXiv:1607.01011). i think i could use a log of hyperdrive links, identified by the hash of an arxiv link, but to be fully decentralized, it'd require publ

would it make sense to use hyperlog for this?

@lukeburns yea i think that makes sense. i might be easier to discuss if you made a readme that documents the apis

lukeburns have you consulted blahah? i think he has thought about similar things for science fair

(lukeburns) @blahah ^^

eljee: hey is the yellow/red background for screen breakpoints intended? or just for debugging?

mafintosh: hey what's the latest plan on dat repo metadata? Name, author, etc? Builtin to the metadata feed, or a file spec

pfraze: we are gonna release SLEEP v2 which will be the merkle tree, signed append only log and URI scheme that dat will use

pfraze: but we dont have a good idea of our package.json equivalent (if there is to be one)

ogd: are you working with the people that coined the original SLEEP ?

pfraze: that was me

ogd: well there you go then

pfraze: technically izs came up with the name at a lunch with me and mikeal in oakland in 2011

ogd: it was extracted from couch's replication protocol, wasnt it?

pfraze: yea

pfraze: i think our new stuff solves the same problem in a way better way

ogd: yeah. Ok, well I'll try out a metadata file and expect it to change

i redid the intro of the dat website a little http://dat-data.com/

trying to make it more concrete :D

ogd: looks good!

datproject.org goes to dat-data.com now too

nice

ogd: i think its a little limiting as a tagline

ogd: makes it sound like we do contract work or something

ogd: but maybe we do contract work? ;)

karissa: haha yea why not

ogd: is there any reason to have the try dat button lower? the original design called for a button or something under the tagline

(lukeburns) ogd: what are the long term goals of dat? I've been hanging around here for a little while and it'd probably be smart for me to have a better idea of what ya'll are working towards

karissa: yea it just felt weird to have the button for 'try dat' next to the new intro, seemed like it fit better in the next section

ogd: hmm yeah

lukeburns good question

ogd: what might be happening here is that this is actually two different pages/websites

ogd: like, git-scm.com is pretty technical from the beginning

ogd: and focused on the particular tool

karissa: yea youre definitely correct

@lukeburns here are some high-level descriptions of long-term projects we're working on https://github.com/datproject/projects/issues