Re: Guinea Pig for new Conduit (fwd)

i'm not a programmer, but i would be classified as an advanced pc
user/systems admin.  i have been playing with openworkbench
(www.openworkbench.org).  i'd be happy to help out.

steve


--- In [email protected], Rick Price <rprice@...> wrote:
>
> This is a resend of my original message since nobody seems to have 
> responded to it.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on a XML conduit to sync between Progect on the Palm and
XML.
> 
> The design of the conduit will allow different types of XML to be
> read/written, so that the conduit will be able to work with more
than one
> type of outliner.
> 
> I think the XML conduit will be very important to Progect because it
will
> enable people to use their Progect data more freely, they will not be
> limited to programs that understand the Progect PDB format.
> 
> The conduit is in it's early stages, and so this help request may only
> interest early adopters...
> 
> I expect the conduit to take at least 6 more months to complete, not
so much
> because it's hard, but because I have relatively little time.
> 
> 
> I need some people who use Progect and an outliner (other than PDesk
since
> it can't read/write XML currently) to work with me to test the XML
conduit
> functionality.
> 
> I would actually be interested in people for more than one platform,
so I
> would be interested in hearing from Windows, Linux and Mac people
and so on.
> 
> The outliner program used does not have to be the same across all the
> platforms, this would be particularly relevant to Mac people since
they seem
> to have some well liked outliners that are native to the Mac.
> 
> 
> I'm not expecting an avalanche of responses so any response is
better than
> none, however the following attributes would describe someone who would
> likely be interested:
> 
> * Uses Progect fairly frequently, Progect is on their critical path
> * Avid user of an outliner program other than PDesk (Project management
> tools certainly apply)
> * Their favorite outliner/project management tool uses XML as it's file
> format, or can at least read/write the format easily.
> * Their favorite outliner/project management tool is commonly used, and
> preferably open source etc.
> * The person is comfortable with or willing to use the command line
> * The person is a programmer (this is because the program is in it's
early
> stages, and while I don't need the person to program understanding
> programming is an asset)
> * The person understands XSLT (same as above)
> 
> The conduit code is still very much in it's early stages, this is the
> progression I see.
> 
> 1) Export from Progect to a special purpose XML used to represent Palm
> Databases (this is basically working)
> 2) Export from Progect to a generally applicable XML via the command
line,
> one way translation only
> 3) Import/Export from Progect to a generally applicable XML via the
command
> line, one way translation only
> 4) Palm Conduit running the conversion automatically
> 5) Merge from Progect to a generally applicable XML via the command
line,
> this is two way translation
> 6) Admin tools to decide what projects are converted to what
programs etc
> 
> Rick
> 
> [=============================]
> 
>    Big whorls have little whorls,
>    Which feed on their velocity;
>    And little whorls have lesser whorls,
>    And so on to viscosity.
> 
>    Lewis Richardson
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>







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