I have grown quite tired of paper lab notebooks. They are hard to share, expensive, not easily searched, awkward when incorporating electronic data (acquired data, digital photos, etc.), etc. There are commercial applications which replace paper notebooks, but they are expensive and, frankly, I love open source. As a result, I have started writing what will become an open source electronic lab notebook. As it stands right now, my application uses oowriter as the editor, odt as the document format, subversion to track changes (and enforce academic integrity), and gnupg. As my application becomes more tightly integrated with OpenOffice, I am increasingly thinking it should actually be part of the OO suite: oolabnotes or something like that ;-).
I have a lot of thoughts and questions, but I think the most important initial questions are: 1) Is there ANY interest from the OO community for integrating lab notebook functionality into OO? 2) If there is interest, how do I get started with the non-technical aspects? That is, who needs to approve, etc. 3) How would I start hammering out the overarching technical details? For example, how does this application integrate with the others? Of course, I will appreciate any questions, comments, or suggestions. - Tony Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mypage.iu.edu/~tonlwalk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
