Re: http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2009/05/workflow.html
I blogged this little essay on "workflow" this morning, inviting discussion and feedback (to this list even). If we get a little thread going, I'll link to it. This is sort of in the spirit of OS Bridge, wanting to bring cultural and chemistry issues to the foreground (to use the conference track shop talk). Regarding Lindsey, mentioned in the opening paragraph, she's worked in C, Perl, JavaScript (also SVG -- to generate wiring diagrams from a database, way cool). I encouraged her to check out (a) Calagator (b) Cubespace and (c) FreeGeek (she's only been in Portland a few days, moved here from West Virginia or one of those). She's especially interested in getting into home monitoring of power consumption i.e. graphing what each of your appliances are doing, giving home owners like a control panel, or at least feedback. She expects others are working on this and would like to get involved. I don't have an email address though. Maybe we'll see her around. Kirby PS: the workflow essay stems from long experience working in the nonprofit sector around Greater Portland, including pre FOSS (gotta remember, FOSS is new). I've always wanted clients to develop as much ownership over the software as feasible, think with FOSS philosophy and simpler approaches, that's often an attainable goal. _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
