Who: Jacob Fugal, Hans Fugal, Von Fugal, Stuart Jansen, Andrew McNabb, Adam Ravitch, Evan McNabb, Mike Ong (If your name isn't listed and you'd like to be involved, reply)
What: (The itches) We brainstormed the following possibilities. Some pros and cons listed here, although I'm sure others were mentioned. Everyone think about them and discuss them (here until we get the list set up). Remember, the criteria are small enough to do in a semester and interesting enough to at least a couple of people so that it gets done. Evan suggested working on a scripture reader; con: not genealogy CVS for GEDCOM; I'm not sure we all completely agreed on exactly what this is. It could be almost as simple as using CVS and doing a bit of pre/post processing, or it could be an entirely ground-up GEDCOM revision management system. This would almost certainly include figuring out how to merge two gedcom files that are mostly the same (or perhaps even gedcom files that are mostly different), a difficult task that many people have been/are working on. Mike Ong says Dr. Sederberg is making some good headway in this problem. A date authority, or a place authority; The date authority might be small enough. The place authority would almost certainly be too big. A genealogy UI, modular and pluggable to different back ends, etc. cons: way too big and cross-platform gui issues. A conceptual model similar to the GENTECH GDM but better, easier to understand, and more conceptual (less influenced by databases). Possible con: little or no programming involved. Research log software Collaborative research log. The ideas here started spilling into collaborative genealogy and distributed databases as well. When: 6:30 before UUG meetings Infrastructure: Stuart and his crony Andrew will be setting up the infrastructure. They'll set up CVS, a mailing list, a basic web site, and possibly a wiki. -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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