I shoot archery at a state level and am currently working on a program for
choosing Arrow Shafts. This program will help archers select the right shaft
for their application thus eliminating a lot of guess work. It is, of
course, being developed on Mandrake 7.0 using G++ and Emacs
Ron LeVine
AKA Enchantir
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt Siffert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 4:34 PM
Subject: what projects are you doing?
>
> I thought it would be cool to find out what kind of unix-y projects
> we are all involved in. What have you been hacking on lately? What
> are you going to do next?
>
> I'll start. I'm more of a programmer than a hardware tinkerer so
> most of my projects reflect that.
>
> I love "collaborative creativity". A while ago I had a mailing list
> I ran that was a bunch of people working on creative writing projects
> together. After a while I stopped that in favor of a website and
> started programming for it while I learned new stuff. It turned into
> a site where lots of authors write "choose-your-own-adventure" type
> stories together. It's called StorySprawl, at
> http://www.storysprawl.com/ - that version is done with perl scripts
> and DBM files.
>
> After that I was able to get another version of it launched on my
> employer's equipment at http://www.talkcity.com/StorySprawl - it
> uses java servlets and oracle, but unfortunately no one uses the
> site since they don't market it.
>
> I think it's pretty cool - there's a core group of people on its
> mailing list that enjoy writing for it and watching the stories
> grow (you can also map out how they sprawl). I mostly write new
> utilities for it. The next project is something that will actually
> generate a pdf document of the books to read when they are done.
>
> The other thing I've been doing with a friend up in Portland is
> audio dramatizations of the chapters at http://www.mp3.com/StorySprawl .
> Kind of a cyoa audio-book, like an interactive radio drama (except
> we need more sound effects and background music). I don't really
> use Linux for this other than gimp to touch up some images, but it's
> all part of the same project.
>
> I've had plans to do a new version of it for a while - php scripts
> with membership, cookies, mass moderation and voting to keep the
> chaff out, kind of like slashdot but different... but so far I
> haven't felt comfortable about hosting the site on my home
> network, which keeps me from hyping the site too much, which keeps
> it from being too popular, which is less reason to upgrade it...
> heh.
>
> Most of my other side projects included hacking a java applet that
> can plays Zork-type text adventures so you can save and restore within
> your web browser, writing a perl-based ear training course that
> generates midi piano jazz chords - 7 chords and 9 chords - for chord
> identification (it helped my girlfriend out with her tests at UofO
> where she's getting a music composition degree), and a php-based
> "to-do list" that can do nested items, meaning it knows when you
> can't do certain tasks until you finish others, and keeps them out
> of your way. Also graphs out a bubble chart. You can see it at
> http://muse.clipper.net/todo/ for a sample (feel free to add or
> remove items).
>
> My next projects are probably to continue getting friends together
> to do character voices for these audio dramatizations, and finding
> a way to upgrade StorySprawl the rest of the way, I guess. If I
> could find something cooler to do, though, I probably would.
>
> anyone else?
>
> Curt
>
>
