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“Whatever happened to Jamoma?”

12/26/2003

Well, admittedly, most people never heard of Jamoma - so what was it?

Jamoma was intended to be a standard that was developed by an open source community for how to structure Max patches. The basis was that if all patches conformed to some common guidelines that they could be more easily shared and plugged into existing patches.

I have spent quite a bit of time wrestling with these issues in the development of what became Jade 1.0. I thought there seemed like quite a bit of promise in the idea and floated it on the Max list. I decided to try and start the open source initiative and named it Jamoma (the name sort of correlates to JAde MOdules in MAx - where the idea initially came from).

There were about 2 or 3 people that actually expressed interest in participating. I found this rather disappointing, but figured it was workable. Unfortunately, of the three people, 2 people had their own ideas which seemed incompatible and the project stalled. I think the Max community tends to be made up of so many do-it-yourselfers that it is hard get a group of people willing to compromise to make a new standard.

There were a number of ideas that were brainstormed by Jesse Allison and myself for Jamoma which I was pretty excited about. Finally, I am getting some of those ideas into place for Jade2. The new modules for Jade2 will essentially take the pieces of what was Jamoma and build on them. With any luck the tools, features, and structure of the new Jade modules can, in fact, become a defacto standard of some sort. I guess only time will tell.

In the meantime, I’m plugging away at some of those tools; right now an application onto which you drop a Jade module (Max patch) and it generates the documentation for that patch in HTML format. “Look ma! No hands!”

Hopefully I’ll have these tools implemented in the next experimental version of Jade, sometime in early January.

Merry Christmas! -Tim

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