[Sw-l] Collaborative Writing, Group Writing

[John Carlson]

Maybe we can work on this:
https://youtu.be/uBBdgcHimoM  It might be easier to start with square
dance.  I remember “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” but not much else.

I will read previously sent email.

John

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 3:04 PM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I came up with this from several directions.  In 1991, I came up with the
> idea of writing a movement programming language, but it was a solitary
> activity.  In 1997, I heard about “pair programming.”  Since 1985-1986, I
> had been interested in multiuser environments, like text chat, and later
> making multiuser environments for planning systems, visual programming,
> solitaire games, and mesh editing.
>
> In 2019, I became interested in SignWriting, etc. and wrote a very
> simplistic translator from English to SignWriting.  I also became familiar
> with Natural Semantic Metalanguage.
>
> For a while I had been exploring the idea of generators in computer
> science and also emitters.   I then arrived at collectors, the opposite of
> emitters.
>
> Back in the late 80’s a friend recommended “Godel Escher Bach” by
> Hofstadter.
>
> I became fascinated with differential set theory, continuous hierarchy and
> smooth collections,  cumulating in waves of concepts and fields of concepts.
>
> A friend Doug Sanden said he had explored crowds as emitters/collectors.
>
> I remembered fluid concepts from another Hofstadter book.
>
> Before those two, and back into the 70s with the book “beyond competition”
> I became interested in collaborative games, like puzzles and “house.”
>
> So plugging this all together, I came up with a “dance of concepts.”
>  Which seems like what Valerie has been pushing for a long time.  Dance is
> collaborative.  I remember doing the Virginia Reel in physical education in
> school.  I don’t know if I could attempt to do the reel in DanceWriting,
> but it would be fun to try to convert video to DanceWriting.
>
> I wrote the start of a collaborative environment for teaching people and
> computers the rules to card games.
>
> I realize that indeed this may only be a “field of dreams”, but I imagine
> one could do holodeck programming with holoconcepts.
>
> I will look for a Virginia Reel or other square dancing videos.
>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 2:24 PM Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>
> wrote:
>
>> SignWriting List
>> April 23, 2022
>>
>> Thank you, John, for this question about “Collaborative Writing”… I bet
>> we can write it. Tell us more about what you mean… what is a “collaborative
>> activity” to you?
>>
>> Do you have any videos we could write together?
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>> -------
>>
>>
>> > On Apr 23, 2022, at 5:31 AM, John Carlson <yottzumm at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> >
>> > I’m wondering how SignWriting, DanceWriting or MovementWriting might be
>> done in collaboration, or used to describe collaborative activities.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > John
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