In a Dorkbot event tonight (actually it’s past midnight, so… to be precise, yesterday evening) we have announced the winners of the Turbulence supported ShiftSpace commission program, here they are:

As mentioned, we would give a § presentation and announce the winners of our commission program at Dorkbot NYC on Wednesday, April 2nd @ Location One - 26 Greene Street (Soho, between Canal and Grand). There are more details on the Dorkbot site, and there’s also a Facebook event for those of you who are into that.

We hope to see you there.

The commissions program has reached it’s deadline and our jury members are now busy going through the applications and picking their favorite ones. We will be announcing the winners in a § presentation we will be giving at the Dorkbot NYC event on April 2nd. Come meet us there.

Hi there,

we have decided to give you guys (and ourselves) two extra weeks until the commissions program deadline.

The New Deadline: March 10th

We hope this gets the last submitters to conclude their application to their (and hopefully also the jury’s) satisfaction.
Anyway, if you’re ready with your application, do not hesitate to send it.

looking forward to your submissions,

the § team

We are working hard to get §0.11 ready, it takes a long time to finish but in the meanwhile some updates about the commissions program:

Trails

We hear you. Trails is still slightly buggy and hard to work with at the moment, and hence have not attracted tons of uses yet. We were hoping to stabilize it earlier but unfortunately we are overwhelmed with work on §0.11.

We have decided to allow you some more time to work on your trails so for the upcoming deadline you will not be required to present your final trail but only a draft showing where you want to take it and a description of your trail proposal. You will then be able to further develop your trail and have us here to help you. We prefer your final trails to use the §0.11 architecture as it would be much more stable and would probably make for better works. If you are comfortable with trails as it is, you are welcomed to post your complete trail with your application, but what we’re saying is that you don’t have to.

Spaces

The space commission program has been going well and we are pretty happy with the developer API we have going. Yet it is not yet as developed as we would like it to be (it is in fact the work we’re focusing on for 0.11). The latest release of Greasemonkey has thrown us back a bit too as the way we were debugging spaces has been deprecated as it introduced a security hole. We are working on creating a Javascript based sandbox now, so we are in sync with the latest GM release (for now if you develop using the GM Version 0.7.20070607.0 as long as you test your code on your own sites, you have nothing to worry about).

The main issue is: we are two weeks away from getting a developer release of 0.11 out, and we want you guys to try it before the deadline. Are there §ers out there who could use an extension of the commissions program deadline? Do you guys need another two weeks maybe so you can get more sense for the API and try the developers release?

Sign up to our discussion list and let us know if you guys need some more time!

ShiftSpace 0.11 is going to be a whole new level for the project as we have been basically re-writing the whole platform using object oriented programming and extensively using the Mootools Javascript framework. We are excited to announce the ShiftSpace Documentations are now available for you to go through, download and start hacking on. We have been focusing on getting you something to put your hands on and start developing your own spaces with and we also have a really simple tutorial that would walk you through developing your first space and the key concepts for doing that. To get started right away, you can download our developer nightly build or use Subversion to download the 0.11 branch of our repository which include the manual files and everything you need to setup a ShiftSpace hacking environment on your local machine.

We will continue on porting the rest of the spaces and features over onto the new 0.11 architecture and then launch a new official release, keeping the active release up to date with where the platform is going in general.

Much respect to David and Dan who have been practically committing code to the repository non-stop every two hours for the past three weeks.
enjoy,

The ShiftSpace Team.

We are glad to announce the first ShiftSpace Commissions program in collaboration with Turbulence.org in which 10 grants of up to $2000 will be awarded to ShiftSpace users developing new Spaces (meta-web applications) and Trails (information maps of Shifts). We will release the details of the new ShiftSpace API and the documentation in the coming week, until then check out the new commissions program site on Turbulence.org

or watch the video: