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Posted to community@apache.org by Stefano Mazzocchi <st...@apache.org> on 2003/10/04 22:42:54 UTC
[FYI] Apache Agora 1.2
It's with great pleasure that I announce the availability of Apache
Agora 1.2.
Find it over at
http://nagoya.apache.org/~stefano/
[NOTE: the location has changed since last version!]
Unlike previous versions where dataclouds were generated by a script
and simply visualized by the application, with this new version, you
can play interactively not only with the graph, but changing it
directly from the application.
In the above location you find an instance of agora running as an
applet (NOTE: you need Java 1.2 or above to see it!) and connecting to
the Apache mail archives hosted on Nagoya.
Agora runs a preprocessing scripts over the entire eyebrowse archives
every Sunday morning (Pacific time) understanding which mbox files were
modified and reprocessing only those who need reprocessing.
You can also download a distribution to run the visualizer and the
script locally on your own MBOX files. See the README.txt file included
in the distribution for more info on how to do this.
The changes since version 1.1 are:
o) Added the ability to zoom into the graphs by right-clicking
(or control-clicking for single-button mice) and show the labels
of the nodes closeby (they are drawn radially from the mouse
location to reduce label overlap).
o) Moved the datacloud aggregation and processing into the application.
This allows a nicer usability of the tool so that users can create
dataclouds on the fly using preprocessed mailbox information
that can be published on the web.
o) Added the ability to introduce time-based "link decay" which
simulates the fact that the importance of a reply decays with
time.
o) Modified the mailbox processing scripts to produce message data
instead of dataclouds. Message data is fetched by the application
to produce the datacloud according to the selection of the processed
message archives that the user selects.
o) Improved the overall prettyness of the drawing by extensive use of
Java2D
functions like rounded rectangles and transparency. The overall
drawing
performance has been reduced, but there is the ability to turn off
part
of the drawing to improve performance.
o) Introduction of a "grouping" capabilities that draws circles around
the
nodes that participated in a particular community. This allows better
identification of the 'node clusters' which belong to different
communities.
- o -
Agora will be presented in detail at my "Virtual Community Dynamics" at
ApacheCON 2003
As usual, feedback, is very welcome.
Happy playing! :-)
--
Stefano.
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Re: [FYI] Apache Agora 1.2
Posted by Andreas Hochsteger <e9...@student.tuwien.ac.at>.
Hi Stefano!
That's amazing!
I it is really funny to find yourself and your relationship to other
community members or the community in common.
BTW, I've got one question:
If you press on "Start" the whole graph is moving.
Does this have a particular meaning (e.g. how the releationships change
over time) or is it just eye fancy ;-)?
Bye,
Andreas
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> It's with great pleasure that I announce the availability of Apache
> Agora 1.2.
>
> Find it over at
>
> http://nagoya.apache.org/~stefano/
>
> [NOTE: the location has changed since last version!]
>
> Unlike previous versions where dataclouds were generated by a script and
> simply visualized by the application, with this new version, you can
> play interactively not only with the graph, but changing it directly
> from the application.
>
> In the above location you find an instance of agora running as an applet
> (NOTE: you need Java 1.2 or above to see it!) and connecting to the
> Apache mail archives hosted on Nagoya.
>
> Agora runs a preprocessing scripts over the entire eyebrowse archives
> every Sunday morning (Pacific time) understanding which mbox files were
> modified and reprocessing only those who need reprocessing.
>
> You can also download a distribution to run the visualizer and the
> script locally on your own MBOX files. See the README.txt file included
> in the distribution for more info on how to do this.
>
> The changes since version 1.1 are:
>
> o) Added the ability to zoom into the graphs by right-clicking
> (or control-clicking for single-button mice) and show the labels
> of the nodes closeby (they are drawn radially from the mouse
> location to reduce label overlap).
>
> o) Moved the datacloud aggregation and processing into the application.
> This allows a nicer usability of the tool so that users can create
> dataclouds on the fly using preprocessed mailbox information
> that can be published on the web.
>
> o) Added the ability to introduce time-based "link decay" which
> simulates the fact that the importance of a reply decays with
> time.
>
> o) Modified the mailbox processing scripts to produce message data
> instead of dataclouds. Message data is fetched by the application
> to produce the datacloud according to the selection of the processed
> message archives that the user selects.
>
> o) Improved the overall prettyness of the drawing by extensive use of
> Java2D
> functions like rounded rectangles and transparency. The overall drawing
> performance has been reduced, but there is the ability to turn off part
> of the drawing to improve performance.
>
> o) Introduction of a "grouping" capabilities that draws circles around the
> nodes that participated in a particular community. This allows better
> identification of the 'node clusters' which belong to different
> communities.
>
> - o -
>
> Agora will be presented in detail at my "Virtual Community Dynamics" at
> ApacheCON 2003
>
> As usual, feedback, is very welcome.
>
> Happy playing! :-)
>
> --
> Stefano.
>
>
Re: [FYI] Apache Agora 1.2
Posted by David Crossley <cr...@indexgeo.com.au>.
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> It's with great pleasure that I announce the availability of Apache
> Agora 1.2.
Great, thanks, will look at it soon.
<snip/>
> o) Added the ability to introduce time-based "link decay" which
> simulates the fact that the importance of a reply decays with
> time.
<snip/>
I disagree with the last part of this. I have many mails sitting
on my system that i am trying to find time to answer. Some of
them are even marked as important. If someone goes to the effort
of digging a mail out of their archives and answers it months later
then i think that it must be very important.
--David
Re: Apache Web Of Trust, was Re: [FYI] Apache Agora 1.2
Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata <te...@apache.org>.
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:18:26 +0200
Erik Abele <er...@codefaktor.de> wrote:
> Have a look at
>
> http://apache.org/~erikabele/wot/wot.html
>
> and let me know what you think.
Fantastic!
-- Tetsuya. (tetsuya@apache.org)
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Re: [FYI] Apache Agora 1.2
Posted by Santiago Gala Pérez <sg...@hisitech.com>.
El sábado, 4 octu, 2003, a las 22:42 Europe/Madrid, Stefano Mazzocchi
escribió:
> It's with great pleasure that I announce the availability of Apache
> Agora 1.2.
>
Excellent! thanks a lot
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Apache Web Of Trust, was Re: [FYI] Apache Agora 1.2
Posted by Erik Abele <er...@codefaktor.de>.
With a bit help of Stefano I finally got around and finished a first
attempt
to visualize the Apache Web of Trust with the help of Agora.
Have a look at
http://apache.org/~erikabele/wot/wot.html
and let me know what you think.
The underlying datasets are available back to 1999 and are based on an
accumulated version of all the different KEYS files used on apache.org.
The keyring currently consists of 78 keys (77 valid, 1 revoked) and a
total
number of 3254 signatures (1396 valid, 1764 unknown, 94 revoked). Note,
that only keys/sigs found on a keyserver are used.
The scripts used to transform the keyring into Agora-suitable datasets,
the
keyring itself, two sample images and a processing report is/are
available
at http://apache.org/~erikabele/wot/
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Erik
On 04/10/2003, at 10:42, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> It's with great pleasure that I announce the availability of Apache
> Agora 1.2.
>
> Find it over at
>
> http://nagoya.apache.org/~stefano/
>
> [NOTE: the location has changed since last version!]
>
> ...
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