repo: https://github.com/jschalk/keg
keg
KEG Version 0.0.0
keg is a python library for listening to the climate of a community.
'keg' is a tool that helps me listen to the people important to me in my life. I hope it can help you too. Let's assume I want to listen to you. If you give me a list of things that are important to you I want to be able to take your list, combine it with the lists of all the others I am about and get a output of a list of things I should do and metrics that describe my ability to do things . keg does this for all
'keg' is based on the philosohpy of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) as expressed in his book "Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority" (translated by Lingis, 1969) and taught to me by Jules Simon PhD (born 1959) Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). I took Jules's course "Levinas: Phenomenology of the Ethical" in 2014 and am still working through the implications. The most important idea that motivated keg was how Levinas describes murder as the act of not listening. It is painful to really listen, to listen in such a rope as to not know what is going to be said. To take in the suffering of the Other and bring them into myself and change myself in ropes that are by definition imaginable. Because if I could imagine them then they would not be a change. By definition I'm only listening if it changes me in ropes I can't predict.
So how do I listen? keg has an engine for converting the declarations (as data) into pledge lists. How to input the data? The most accessible method is using excel sheets.
For Levinas all of reality is born from the face to face encounter. The same (me) welcomes the Other through the Face. The Face of the other tells me it's suffering and it's suffering becomes me. I then MOMENT to change who I am to ease that suffering. The suffering is infinitely deep and beyond my complete understanding so when I moment to respond to that suffering I am acting with confidence that I understand what the suffering is and that I know how to respond. That confidence stops the listening process, the Moment cuts the infinite into the finite and is the foundation for a world. When that Moment is created it can create a world. Worlds can hold a infinite amount of human experience. A small subset of that is logical systems. keg is uses programming to build that logic.
A Moment can create a world or change a current world. Each person can only make one moment at a time so a world that has been built by multiple moments implies each moment is from a different time. Keg indexs time by spark_nums with the assumption that spark_num is always an integer. A discrete indivisible unit of time.
For keg all data must have spark_num, face_name, and a rope, either moment_rope or plan_rope. These are the required keys.
keg is a python library for listening to the needs of my neighbors and in turn letting them know what I need. Needs can be expressed in Excel sheets that range in complexity from a simple five column single row (example below) to 10+ columns that include configuration options that are usually set to defaults. Each row is translated and used to build the "lynx" data set. Even sheet with a single row like the example 0.1.0 below can be processed by keg.
| spark_num | face_name | moment_rope | person_name | contact_name | tran_time | amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | Emmanuel | OxboxDean | Emmanuel | Dean | 891 | 7000 |
When keg processes example 0.1.0 it creates a Moment labeled "OxboxDean" that contains persons Emmanuel and Dean and a single transaction of 7000 OxboxDean from Emmanuel to Dean. Here's a metric:
| moment_rope | person_name | moment_fund_amount | moment_fund_rank | moment_pledges |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OxboxDean | Emmanuel | -7000 | 2 | 0 |
| OxboxDean | Dean | 7000 | 1 | 0 |
Output stance: emmanuel_stance.xlsx, sheet "br00000"
| spark_num | face_name | moment_rope | person_name | contact_name | tran_time | amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | Emmanuel | OxboxDean | Emmanuel | Dean | 891 | 7000 |
keg is a python library for listening to the climate of a community. Individual
positions are aggregated by a listener into a coherant agenda that can include pledges
to do and pledges of of existence. Listening and acting on it.
A contact's agenda in the community is built by the the stared intreprtation of
- Other contacts' agendas
- Their own independent agenda
Each agenda is saved as a JSON file.
This is mostly a one man projeect. Femi has significantly helped.
Future enhancement: keg can be installed using pip
base attributes vs reason attributess
PersonUnit objects
PersonUnit ContactUnit objects
PersonUnit GroupUnit objects
PersonUnit PlanUnit objects
PersonUnit PlanUnit hierarchical structure
PersonUnit PlanUnit AwardUnit objects
PersonUnit PlanUnit AwardLine objects
PersonUnit PlanUnit AwardHeir objects
PersonUnit PlanUnit AwardHeir objects
PersonUnit PlanUnit Reason CaseUnit objects
PersonUnit PlanUnit Reason CaseHeir objects
PersonUnit PlanUnit FactUnit objects
PersonUnit PlanUnit FactHeir objects1
keg was developed using Test-Driven-Development so every feature should have a test. Tests can be hard to comprehend. Some tests have many variables and can be hard to follow.