[Ubuntu Chicago] Team Project Ideas

[Wally Valters]

Sorry guys, had name turned off for other reasons, all fixed

On 5/14/07, Andrei Makhanov <andrei.makhanov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Going along similar lines as deepsky (whoever you are), I also think that
> perhaps we can contribute to an existing project. For example, Rich said
> "Think Tomboy, but better, with a little more oomph to it." Can we start
> with the Tomboy base and try to build our improvements on top of that? Or is
> it too much work to try to get up to speed on the rest of the existing app.
> I don't have too much experience, but to me it seems to make more sense to
> improve an existing project rather than try to do your own thing and compete
> for users.
>
> Either way, C/C++/Python are my favorites, so I'm happy. I'm honestly not
> sure how much i'll be able to contribute, but i think this whole idea is a
> great community-building sort of thing. I like it. Also, it will give people
> a chance to get a good intro into group development.
>
> On 5/14/07, deepsky99 <deepsky99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Well I have very little Debian / Ubuntu / Linux development or packaging
> > experience, but a wealth in team development and projects.  I have
> > experience in Mainframe COBOL, Assembly and C++, Windows C++ and  C#, and
> > Java.
> >
> > It seems as this project will be a new venture (the team aspect) for
> > many, and if that is true something small is best first.  Learning
> > distributed development, source control and communication as well as perhaps
> > a new language all at once will cause issues galore.  This, on top of the
> > communication required will make it very hard to make the first project a
> > real success.  By first doing a few small projects, like improvements on
> > existing things will help the team learn a little from each other and get
> > used to the inherent delays in distributed development.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/14/07, Jim Campbell < jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 5/12/07, Rich Johnson <nixternal at ubuntu.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > > [snip]
> > > >
> > > So I figured I would start this thread here to
> > > > try and gather some ideas as to what type of project people would
> > > > like to
> > > > see. Keep in mind our goal for this project will be to get it into
> > > > Ubuntu,
> > > > then to Debian, then to the rest of the world :) My only requests
> > > > are these:
> > > >
> > > > 1) GPL (v3 is due out soon, lets adopt it?)
> > > > 2) Language
> > > >      - Python
> > > >      - C/C++
> > > > 3) Developer Documentation & User Documentation
> > > > 4) Revision control (SVN - i.e., Google Code or SourceForge, or
> > > > better yet
> > > > Bazaar and host it on Launchpad)
> > >
> > >
> > > Those are all fine with me.  :)
> > >
> > > OK, so what type of application or project is everyone interested in?
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I am curious about Freddy's comment on the bug helper thing.  In
> > > checking it out a bit on Launchpad, it seems like it's a bunch of python
> > > scripts used to get info about bugs.  Just curious what Freddy was thinking
> > > about here.  I don't know much about it, and am curious to see if others
> > > think it would work well as a desktop app (if that's what we're thinking).
> > >
> > > As for the desktop wiki, I know that MoinMoin has both a desktop wiki
> > > and a MoinMoinAsPIM project already.  Those use python.  They already exist,
> > > but we could still contribute to them as projects.
> > >
> > > Another idea is to put together a gui network manager for Xfce,
> > > similar to the network-manager-gnome or network-manager-kde, but not
> > > dependent on gnome or KDE libs.   I don't know how difficult that would so
> > > I'm not stuck on that idea.
> > >
> > > Jim
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