Sorry guys, had name turned off for other reasons, all fixed <div>On 5/14/07, Andrei Makhanov <<a href="mailto:andrei.makhanov@gmail.com">andrei.makhanov@gmail.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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. <div> <div>On 5/14/07, deepsky99 <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> deepsky99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. <div><div>On 5/14/07, Jim Campbell <<a href="mailto:jwcampbell@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> jwcampbell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div> On 5/12/07, Rich Johnson <<a href="mailto:nixternal@ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nixternal@ubuntu.com</a> > wrote: <div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> [snip] </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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)</blockquote> Those are all fine with me.  :) <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">OK, so what type of application or project is everyone interested in?  </blockquote> <div> 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 </div></div></div> -- Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago</a> </blockquote></div> -- Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago</a> </blockquote></div> </div> -- Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago</a> </blockquote></div>