Can we have a Cucumis Live?

When I said of cucumis live, I wish jp can develop a tool as MSN, which could be downloaded on local computer, so even if I were not on cucumis site, I could also use it and chat.

But the rubbish chat tool attached to the page cannot be plugged in local computer, and it looks rather ugly! I dislike it.

We need a solid and sound one, and I think cucumis will grow even greater than MSN!

Let's imagine the figure of it:

the tool is applied on the task line in a form of a watermelon!
the background when we open it up is as red as melon flesh, and the frame is in green, as green as melon's skin,
and the members online can be melon seed in black color (mature), while the members offline can be shown in seeds grey or white (immature).
and our talk box should take in a form of whatever kind of cucumis,
just imagine!
and Each member using it can personalize its own interface to her or his preferred cucumis fruits, like chuchu, cucumber, hami melon, ...

I have this idea in this thread:
Spanish forum

yesssssssssss... I agree....... We can do it, is just to work a little bit........

I know that jp's boss always needs him overwork on company programs, but if he cannot spare time, He can order us to build one autonomous organization responsible for our own program!

I'm not very aware of chat matters, I've used a free solution. I think we would need that cucumis hosts its own chat server to provide a private access to all cucumis.org members. But I need time and maybe money, I'm not suer those servers are free.

yes, I thought the same, is a great idea but is difficult and expensive, I guess...

AS to simple chat room, I think it is rather simple in China. It can be embeded on a webpage, when one member speaks, the words are shown in the box, and when another member speaks, his words fall on the top of the first member's... it is like piling bricks.

I also hate this kind of tool, because all members have to look at every words including those someone would not like to read, but same rubbish!

What I mentioned in the new idea is to develop a tool similar to MSN, so each cucumber can download and locate it in its own computer, and then add any other one s/he knows in universe or any other cucumber, and s/he can select to chat with particlar persons, not universally all.

So each one (including cucumis members and other person who likes to download it) does not have to read something s/he does not want to read, and can select.

Think of MSN, you will understand what I am saying.

The good points of this kind of tool can be many, firstly, we have our cucumis form or appearance of the tool, we can have our slogans or advs, to notify people who use it that: we are cucumis, please visit cucumis and help!

So, if this tool is realized, not only cucumis members, but also plain webnuts will like it, I think it will spread very soon, since it has cucumis features.

So the development of outlooking is very important, when people use it, they can feel directly that is quite different from MSN.

I believe, CUCUMIS Live similar to MSN tool will not occupy server space, the only problem is how to produce it, so I said you might need a team to do it.

pluiepoco, that's great ideas, but as Maria tells it, that's the story of a whole team. I wish I could develop a software where one could chat but also translate directly from this software. The Adobe AIR platform (currently in developement) will maybe make things possible one day. I know very well flash development and it's possibe to do things pretty quick with it.

Glad that you also have the idea.

But if you said of "automatic translation", I think it will become a bigger task, because you have to build dictionary base, so step by step, we can develop and launch something simple first, and then improve it by separate downloading. And I cannot open any wiki articles and many Chinese forums, and I fear that one day, I can not even use cucumis website. It is not horrible but the fact in China. We don't have to develop completely before launching something, we can develop part of functions then use it, and further develop.

What is the Adobe AIR platform? Is it for designing images? You mean you can use it to design our future CUCUMIS Live's outlook, and all functions?

As to team work, I think if we have firm ideas, we can start to organize all possible efforts, persons, ideas, etc. to realize it. And Maria told me she could help, and I certainly can help, except that I know almost nothing about technology.

Can I start a CUCUMS Live Team? Members:
Technical: jp...
Non-technical: Maria, pluiepoco...

I guess it needs ten technical members at most!!!!???

jp, I just noticed that you have corrected the Chinese time order from DD-MM-YY to the right way YY-MM-DD, thanks! You finish good things without advertising.

Yep I'e done this 1 month or 2 months ago on previous update.

Adobe AIR is a plateform where you can develop interfaces for web that also work on your desktop.
It's flash.

Jp, I think it is time to develop a live message tool, like MSN, for this site that serves more than 70,000 members.

Will cucumis become a software? Hehe.
But, we know that we have 70.000 registered users, but can we know how many log in everyday?

Yep 70,000 members.
I don't have the number of connections everyday.
I know there are about 1500 active members.
What I call an active member is :
- A user that who is at least 1 month old.
- And that as connected within the last month.

Ok! Thank you...

jp,
this one is good for webb stats.

Even the number of connections everyday.
At least for smal webbsites.

Jp, provided cucumis remains non-commercial, you are welcome to migrate to ibiblio.org. I will recommend you. I have maintained projects there since 1993, at no cost to me other than my time. Maintainers have ssh access and full programming powers. It is a rather do-it-yourself site and the management is very open to new technologies. Cucumis would be a good fit.

Una, what do you mean by "migrating to ibiblio.org" ? You mean theat cucumis.org would become cucumis.ibiblio.org or something like that ?

pias, I'm using google analytics, it's also very good for stats of visitors but not for members stats. For the members, I have to do it myself.

yes...google analytics is good to

JP, ibiblio.org does domain hosting too, at cost. Confluence.org, one of my favorite sites, is on ibiblio.org. If you moved your operation there, it would still be cucumis.org and users would see no difference other than any changes you make, but you may be able to make changes not feasible on your current ISP.