Hi Jonathan,

Welcome to this community. I'm in a similar position to you, because I'm a newbie in Moose/Pharo, but I'm also not a developer.

I would like to share my project with you. Its called "Grafoscopio"[1][2] it really my first attempt to build something is Pharo/Smalltalk (besides eToys, BotsInc), so it's full of rookie code and errors but may be it can be useful for some inspiration or talk between you and Alexandre.

[1] http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Offray/Grafoscopio/ [2] http://mutabit.com/deltas/repos.fossil/grafoscopio/index

My idea with Grafoscopio is to explore ways of bridging the gap between developers and users.

Moose/Pharo has a developer centered experience and elsewhere you can see a lof of apps with a user centered experience (Pratch and DrGeo are "apps" build to bridge that gap "indirectly" and are oriented mainly towards kids). My idea is to build a interactive documentation "app" on top of Moose that departs itself from the "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) metaphor and instead tries an *Iceberg Metaphor*: "What You See Is Only The Surface Of What You Have", that happens in most of the writing/visualization processes. For that I have created an tree-like interface to write that exports from Moose to markdown and pdf documents (using pandoc). I have wrote about this idea previously in the context of IPython on [3], but Moose/Roassal was my way to put this idea into practice.

[3] http://mutabit.com/mutabit/default/wiki/ipython-deepness

The idea is to extend this basic functionality to support:

a. Tagged nodes for code/doc and hidden parts of the document and special processing of sub-nodes while exporting to web/pdf. b. Automatic fossil[4] storage for collaboration and versioning (The slqlite's author says that sqlite tries to replace fopen() not Postgresl[4]). c. Modes, so the interface can change according to kind of document we're writing/viewing d. Zotero integration. e. Models to make simulations or particular visualizations.

Features a to d have preliminary "dirty" support in real alpha stage.

[4] http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/attachments/319_PGCon2014OpeningKeynote.p...

Hopefully when "non-dev people" start to write documentation "inside" Pharo/Moose they will appreciate the powerful ideas behind it and the continuity of the experience about objects all the way down and when they see that the same language that let's them to run a script also can be used to redefine their own experience they will push the envelope about what can be done with the computer. Start with (interactive) documents and to end with objects, fluid interface and moldable tools to refine the whole experience.

Last year I had a very busy end of year, so I went unable to polish the code or answering mails about it, but this year I hope to have more room for this project. It's still a young project with almost six months of noncontinuous work since I wrote my first line of it, but has been really a interesting learning experience.

I Hope this helps as some kind of inspiration about some project you would like to build with Moose.

Cheers,

Offray

El 05/01/15 a las 10:48, Wadin Jonathan escribió:

Hello,

I'm student from France. I would like to participate in an open source project in Pharo. Moose project looks interesting. I'm noob in Pharo.

How can I start to help you ?

Thank you,

Best regards,

Jonathan Wadin.

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