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Date:	Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:21:54 PST
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Project ?

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >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.

I can't think of an abandoned shareware app that I'd like to "adopt".
There are some freeware apps that I'd like to rewrite to add
functionality, and there are some currently-supported shareware apps
that I'd like to rewrite because I don't like the way they work.

From a "Marketing" standpoint, you're going to have to use the "greed"
factor -- "what's in it for me?" -- rather than a group effort on one
particular app. Everybody picks one app they'd like to
program/reprogram/modify and the Programming SIG can support the
development of that member's app. We can supply the incentive to get
them written. The members can sell the apps, they can public license
them, they can hide them in the back of the refrigerator when they're
done -- that's up to them.

Dallas was working on some mail protocol stuff a while back, and also
OS/2 PERL. Maybe he has an app that's "almost done". Maybe somebody
else knows about a Linux app that they'd like to port to OS/2. Maybe
Dave Watson would like to develop an IRC client with some "extras" that
don't exist in the current ones (Dave - I still think my "broadcast
teletype" IRC idea would work). Sundial might like to have a mail/news
client that monitors the lists and groups for certain keywords
("Sundial", "Junk Spy", etc.) so they immediately know if they or their
products are mentioned.

I use a really neat app ("PM Disk Map") that maps my drives and gives me
bar graphs and drill-down pie charts of the subdirectories in each
directory, so I can quickly see which directories use the most space.
It's freeware and it has a couple of minor bugs that I'd like to fix. I
also use IPSpeed (freeware) to show me the throughput on my serial
ports, and I'd like to learn how the heck it works. Etc.

Steven: what app do _you_ have an interest in?

- Peter

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