[CLUG] Project

[Donnchadh Ó Donnabháin]

Bobby Heffernan wrote:
> and I thoght: wouldn't it be great if we thought of some kind of
> significant thing we could do
> a project that various people from the group could use their various
> skills towards creating something new and fresh exclusively from us
> a contribution to the larger linux community

 Donncha wanted to do a web-based clone of Goldmine 
(http://www.goldminesw.com). Goldmine is a customer tracking tool
 with email integration. I just had a look at their site and they
promise a web-based version. Donncha has been very busy lately and
I've been busy so not a lot has been done with that.
 There are a lot of other possible projects also. It would be worthwhile
 to contribute patches to existing projects to make them easier to use/
fix bugs. We could do this systematically, selecting a paricular
application,
 finding ways in which it could be improved, submitting
patches/suggestions
 to the project owner. Any time somebody somebody posts a problem on the
ILUG
mailing list there's a possible improvement to be made to the piece of
software
 in question.

I suppose I should have asked you first what kind of project you had in
mind
 - development,documentation,advocacy/marketing?
Anyway, there's no shortage of work to be done.
If you're into assembly I have a partially reverse-engineered Win95
parallel
 port scanner driver which I'm trying to port to Linux. I might
ressurect that
 this weekend.

   Donnchadh


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