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Date:	Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:50:16 PST
From:	<leganii@surfree.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Project ?

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On Mon, 24 January 2000, "Steven Levine" wrote:

>
> In <388B68A1.7D78@peterskye.com>, on 01/23/00
> at 12:47 PM, Peter Skye said:
>
> >Did the Programming SIG ever come up with a "project"?
>
> I presented the idea of doing an "adopt-an-app" project. However, so far
> the response has not been deafening.
>
> Steven

When/how did you (StevenL) come up with this idea?

I was (and am still) reading Eric Raymond's
"The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Steve's idea seemed
to be running in a related channel. It seems to me
that reading this should be the first step for every
one on this adapt-an-app project. I don't have
the URL's handy, but I think most of the chapters
were originally on the Web. (Some are available
at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cb/index.html
A small article on similar topics (which I haven't
read) is in the recent issue of Linux Magazine.
(The one with the penguin in M$'s crosshairs on the
cover.)

If any ol' project would do, taking up maintenance
for some of the OS/2 programs recently freewared
that are mentioned in EA might be plausable,
but some of them have the disadvantage that the
manufacturer are still selling versions for other
platforms & therefor less likely to give us access
to source.

Kim Yueng (sp?) had some ideas on e-commerce,
Steve Levine I would guess might be interested in
cleaning up / updating Octave.
Dave Watson's serious idea a while back was to put
together a CD of apps, (maybe we could put some kind
of cron routine in with the installation, put it in
the startup folder, programmed to log them into #SCOUG, #VOICE etc. at apropriate times.)
If we really get ambitious, maybe contribute to
FreeOS.

If we want to do the maximum good, it would seem
we should be looking over the poll results from
a couple of general meetings back to see if
there are any prospects there.
What does OS/2 / OS/2 community need the most
right now? What needs to be done that someone is
not working on? I myself am probably too far
off in my own corner to really come up with
ideas other people are interested in, maybe too
limited in my background to contribute much to some
projects, but I am willing.
Things I've asked about in the past that no one
came up with a good answer for were OCR (maybe port
to EMX), maybe some loadlin like tool to boot
OS/2 from a real DOS session, integrate a full
graphics capability / IDE for Forth etc.
(pretty esoteric stuff ehh? :-) )

I'd like to make some improvements to some
EWS stuff, but that would probably require
a the earth's axis to be shifted for that to happen.

Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II / dallasii@kincyb.com /
leganii@surfree.com
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