Hi, On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Torsten Wagner <torsten.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > Reading this proposal and having a bit background in writing > proposals, I have the following suggestion: > > * I'm not sure everyone (at least the one who review this) know what > org-mode is. There should be a very small summary about org-mode and > the key-benefit being plain text (which is why you can start this > project after all).
This raises the point that I have no idea at all who will be reviewing my proposal. I originally wrote the proposal targeting Org-Mode devs as the audience. This has provided some important insight to my application. Thank you! > > * In the way the proposal is written, you address org-mode users which > uses git (later you mention other CVS too). This actually makes, or at > least sound like, the proposal being only useful for a (small) > intersection of users namely org-mode AND (in the sense of an logic > AND) git-user. > I would find it more useful to describe this work as being an > extension for org-mode users; > ** They can start to collaborate on a org-mode files, including > collaboration with users of possible other software tools (e.g. > mobileorg apps). > ** Org-mode user can use a CVS system which is not only of interest > for collaboration but for keeping a chronological order of changes in > e.g. a project file. > ** It makes org-mode a possible tool for software developers which can > now use org-files e.g. for documentation and notes beside there source > code in the same git repository. > > All this points would show that the proposal is going to extend > org-mode instead of being "limited" useful for only a very particular > user-base. Finally, I guess it would be good to mention that this > project (and org-mode in general) is not limited to a OS but attracts > users of MS Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Simply to demonstrate that the > user-base can be expected to be rather large. > (Not sure if the GNU people like this ;) ) > > Torsten These are all great suggestions and points. This triggered a complete rewrite of the benefits section. Thank you for your help. Regards, Andrew Young
