I agree it would be a shame to let this opportunity pass by. However, I have a hard time (like all of us it seems) determining how the students could contribute. During my last business trip I made an effort to determine why exactly I have problem doing so. I came up with the following obstacles:
In General: - This is a (huge) project, managed and run in spare time via the internet. Consequences: - No day-to-day management; - Ad-hoc communication. You can't rely and shouldn't expect anybody to be available just when you need'm
Project related: - I only have outdated, and probably partial information on who's doing what; - I don't have 'easy' access to what has already been (partially) completed; - I only have a high level idea of what still has to be done;
Student related: - With the info provided so far, I really have no idea what can be expected from them (this is related to me not being English (the courses they've done mean zilch to me) and me not being a C programmer. Somebody else here might actually have a clue).
Summary: We have a huge project, and insufficient means to manage it.
Proposal: Maybe the students could develop a generic (there may follow other projects of this nature, after all) toolset, that helps us manage the following aspects of the project: - who's doing what; - status info per project component (what's finished, what's in progress, what needs to be done); - We need to be able to easily address the following scenario: 'Hi, I'm a C-programmer and I want to help. What can I do?'
The first two issues can be handled by the project-management website IIRC. (No idea if we can put dependency data in there though, nor if that's easily done). I don't have the URL handy atm, sorry.
Please feel free to comment.
Kind regards,
Peter / Rincewynd
-----Original Message----- From: openoffice-os4-bounces@samfundet.no [mailto:openoffice-os4-bounces@samfundet.no] On Behalf Of Mark Bond Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:09 PM To: Effort to port OpenOffice.org to AmigaOS4 Subject: [OO.org-OS4] Re: Amigans at KCL
Im not really sure, we are still working on dependancies (although very slowly), I know hnl_dk is still doing SANE (at least I think he is), not sure if we have a GUI for it (which we will need if it has to integrate), this maybe something to look at (a port of XSane - the gui frontend of sane).
Other than that, it may be a worthwhile effort (as our PM seems to be significantly absent), to ask them to identify an (or a couple) of areas they would be comfortable working on?
Mark
On 23/10/2005, you wrote:
I don't have the information to answer him...atleast not as of now....Orvil? :-)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hubert Maier" raziel_nosgoth@web.de To: openoffice-os4@samfundet.no Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 9:05 AM Subject: [OO.org-OS4] Re: Amigans at KCL
Hi devs,
hmm, shouldn't someone answer him, at least, he offers help???
PK> Just to let you know, the folks over at Amizilla are in the process of PK> preparing some project descriptions for me. One such description is PK> already ready. The same would be very helpful from you guys...
PK> Piyush Khengar wrote:
PK>> I just posted this up on AW.net. Now we really need to get on with PK>> work. I will be splitting the effort so 4 will work on openoffice, and PK>> 4 will be on Amizilla. PK>> PK>>> PK>>> OK, the results of the project selection process are in: I have 8 PK>>> students now confirmed as working for me. This is on average double PK>>> of what other academics take on! PK>>> PK>>> I have asked them all to buy GoldED Studio AIX, and am in the process PK>>> of setting up emulated Amiga environments on their laptop PCs. They PK>>> have until this time next week to familiarise themselves with the OS, PK>>> and from next Thursday, they will start to work through the liquido2 PK>>> programming tutorial, just to give them a taste of GUI programming on PK>>> the Amiga! PK>>> PK>>> From there, they will branch off and start working on different PK>>> things. Gonna have to ask the guys at AOOo and AmiZilla where we can PK>>> now fit in. PK>> PK>> PK>>
Ciao
Hubert
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