On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:27 PM, אנטולי קרסנר <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply! > > I will continue writing code and developing the project. And when I'm > done, nobody will need any of those non-free project/task/todo > management tools. > > I'm writing it in C++ using gtkmm for GUI. > > Ah okay. Nice. > Currently its functionality is more or less what GTG offers, but with > the advantage of fast graph algorithms (because I write in C++ compared > to Python) and very high level of modularity and maintainability (all > components are built on top of each other, so each one is a separate > useful piece of code). > > Have you considered approaching the GNOME design folks? They can help you with giving a nice beautiful GUI. Of course you can do what you want, but it's worth having a discussion with them. > I want to add Semantic Desktop support, but I'm not sure Gnome already > has a plan for a desktop-wide semantic database and > communication/integration. Many separate tools and projects exist, but > there's a lot of work to do. Maybe I should help there... > > I don't know either. It might be a nice capability. I would like to see more tools for engineering managers to manage information. For instance, I would like to label emails a correlate them with a project or a set of notes. It's something like beagle but more focused on labels rather than a search item. I think it can be done with tracker and extended filesystem attributes. It's an interesting challenge I think. But if successful would be enormously popular. sri Thanks again :) > > - Anatoly > > On ש', 2013-03-30 at 12:21 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:35 AM, אנטולי קרסנר <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been working for the past few months on a task management > > application which makes it very easy and effective to use GTD, > > delegate > > tasks to other team members, watch the team's work progress, > > etc. Before > > Before I started it, I made a research. I couldn't find a > > free-software > > application which did everything I needed for my personal > > usage > > patterns, so I just started writing my own app. > > > > > > > > This is really great! Out of curiosity what are you writing it in? > > > > > > > > So I realized how close it is, and how simple. So before I > > dive further > > into my project, I'd like to as you a question: > > > > Task management and sharing, collaborative decision making and > > many > > other relates tools can be extremely useful for a large > > organization. > > Including the Gnome project. Does the Gnome project already > > use this > > kind of tools? I've seen Gnome Live, the wiki pages, > > discussions, > > brainstorming, roadmaps, etc. but there's a new, higher level > > of > > software aided task and project management. Does the Gnome > > project have > > an interest to use such technologies? > > > > > > > > I am not aware of anyone using these kind of tools. The marketing > > team is the one that's been driving requests for more collaborative > > tools especially from Andrea. We do have some need to do some project > > management. I'm sure it would come in handy for those who run GUADEC > > as well. > > > > > > I don't know from a technical stand point what people use or if they > > do any planning. But the non-coding folks would certainly see some > > benefit. > > > > If it does use them, I'd like to see. I don't want to > > re-invent the > > wheel (non-free existing tools don't count). If it doesn't > > need any such > > tools, I'd like to hear why. And if you are interested in such > > tools, > > I'd like to know. And especially hear about use-cases, feature > > ideas, > > etc. > > > > > > > > I would encourage you to write it. I for one would use it, both > > personally and professionally. Apps like yours would be a boon for > > adoption in corporate offices. > > > > > > I've actually wanted to write something to track the accomplishments > > of people who work for me so that end the year I would have a nice > > list of accomplishments. Something to think about as well. :-) > > > > > > sri > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Anatoly Krasner > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-love mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love > > > > > > >
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