The Concept
This week’s content is focused on an Indigeous platform that empowers creativity and self-expression through digital art and coding. Nodin highlighted within this talk that the system that they created focuses on compiling contributions across different learners. A “Peer-to-peer” knowledge transfer system. This point resonated quite well with me, majority of the technology I learned for both work and co-ops are absolved through reviewing Open Source code-bases.
Hearing Nodin’s dedication to making sure the platform has appropriate Open Source licenses to make sure it is available to generations of Indigenous youth inspires me to further make my own learning journey available to people. Who knows if the problems I encounter would help someone in the future!
Let’s have a look at the platform!
The platform
Landing page’s design is minimalistic, explains clearly what the platform does and what is the foundation’s commitment.
Let’s get to the bulk of the platform, the beta version, you can access this through the “TRY WANISKAW” button avialable on the landing page.
This looks like a fully operational HTML, CSS and JavaScript editor! With its own custom styling, it reminds me a bit of a project called CodeMirror, I wonder if this is the editor they used within the site.
Taking a peek under the page’s HTML and seems like they are actually using CodeMirror as their code editor, a small detail but much appreciated, CodeMirror is an Open Source editor with the MIT license, which grants the user pepetual distribution and usage of the source code. Which fits well with Waniskâw’s mission.
The magic of this platform is hidden under the “Project” dropdown, under examples where you can find a repository of animation, styling, JavaScript sample codes that teaches you everything on Web animation. Each sample code is explained in detail on what it manipulates and what its intention.
This is a wonderful resource to have in learning web development with an impactful mission to future generations. I look forward to seeing Waniskâw Foundation evolves!
References
What is Waniskâw? (n.d.). https://www.waniskawfoundation.ca/
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