RE: Project management software project, was Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier(was Re: 50 people to watch)

1999-12-03 Thread Ian Phillips
Hi, > > I'd work on a project management software project. Dancer's constantly > > griping about the lack - so I KNOW it'd get used at least by one group. > I would too. I'd need to start small, though. I've only done hobby > programming. Ditto. I'd even offer to start a project if enough peo

Zope abilities (was Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier ... )

1999-12-03 Thread Julie Meloni
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It's an object-oriented system for building web applications. It's built in Python. Things you get when you build a site with Zope that you don't get using PHP, mod_perl, ASP, or ColdFusion: - -a built-in object database to store web data, as well as support f

Zope vs PHP (was Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier ... )

1999-12-03 Thread Julie Meloni
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It's an object-oriented system for building web applications. It's built > in Python. Things you get when you build a site with Zope that you don't > get using PHP, mod_perl, ASP, or ColdFusion: > > - -a built-in object database to store web data, as well as suppo

Re: Zope vs PHP (was Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier ... )

1999-12-03 Thread srl
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Julie Meloni wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > It's an object-oriented system for building web applications. It's built > > in Python. Things you get when you build a site with Zope that you don't > > get using PHP, mod_perl, ASP, or ColdFusion: > > > > - -a built

Re: Project management software project, was Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier(was Re: 50 people to watch)

1999-12-03 Thread Maureen Lecuona
If those of us who are really interested in working on project management software would answer, I would like to start coming up with an out of pocket cost figure, so please answer the following: 1. What language(s) are you expecting to use? 2. Guesstimate the amount of disk space we need (in m

Re: Project management software project, was Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier(was Re: 50 people to watch)

1999-12-03 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999 11:57:15 -0500, Maureen Lecuona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >If those of us who are really interested in working on project >management software would answer, I would like to start coming up >with an out of pocket cost figure, so please answer the following: >1. What language(

Re: Project management software project, was Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier(was Re: 50 people to watch)

1999-12-03 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Maureen Lecuona wrote: > If those of us who are really interested in working on project management > software would answer, I would like to start coming up with an out of pocket > cost figure, so please answer the following: > > 1. What language(s) are you expecting to use?

Re: Project management software project, was Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier(was Re: 50 people to watch)

1999-12-03 Thread Maureen Lecuona
Kelly: Would you mind emailing the names of those places? maureen Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Dec 1999 11:57:15 -0500, Maureen Lecuona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >If those of us who are really interested in working on project > >management software would answer, I would like to

Re: Project management software project, was Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier(was Re: 50 people to watch)

1999-12-03 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Maureen Lecuona wrote: > Would you mind emailing the names of those places? > > Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > > > > I seem to recall a couple of places out there that let you park your > > open source project in their CVS for free. openprojects.net is one of them (sponsored by

Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, curious wrote: > 2> alot of redhat's controlpanel stuff was (and probably still is) written > in perl (try locate *.py sometime) Actually, Python is used more at Red Hat these days than Perl. There's a good reason for it, eloquently stated by Alan Cox: you can't guarantee per

Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread curious
sorry that was a typo on my part... s/perl/python oops if you look at the *.py files you would have seen they were python I was aguring merits of python in my points.. sorry for the confusion the typo caused... Chris /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASC

Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread Maureen Lecuona
Okay Deirdre, what is the best PYTHON introductory text in your opinion? maureen Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, curious wrote: > > > 2> alot of redhat's controlpanel stuff was (and probably still is) written > > in perl (try locate *.py sometime) > > Actually, Python is used m

Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Maureen Lecuona wrote: > Okay Deirdre, what is the best PYTHON introductory text in your opinion? "Learning Python" is the best one I've seen. There will be a Sams "Teach Yourself Python" book (which may be better, dunno). And if I ever get the book proposal finished , there

Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread Patti Ames
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:26:29PM -0800, Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > > I'm not really fond of "Programming Python." > > My favorite Python book and the one I used for learning (since it was > relevant) is "Internet Programming with Python" but that's out of print. > What's wrong with it? I've be

Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Patti Ames wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:26:29PM -0800, Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > > > > I'm not really fond of "Programming Python." > > What's wrong with it? I've been thinking of getting that one > myself - or "Learning Python". It's annoying. Sit down and read it an

Re: Project management software project, was Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier(was Re: 50 people to watch)

1999-12-03 Thread Maureen Lecuona
Okay, so let's get a count of people who would work on project management software. So far I have Deidre (only if it's Python/GTK+, right?), myself (who is unfamiliar with Python but willing to learn), Eugenia(?), Patti Ames(?). I am not sure about this list, so if you are on it and don't want

Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread curious
I agree.. programming python walks you though python programming though the development of a text join and split program.. written in all sorts of strange ways.. which leads the reader to have to figure out what the author is trying to do in a given area before he/she can grasp the concepts... pul

Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread Maureen Lecuona
Deirdre: Thanks. I just ordered it. What about GTK+? Any good docs out there? Maureen Lecuona Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > "Learning Python" is the best one I've seen. There will be a Sams "Teach > Yourself Python" book (which may be better, dunno). And if I ever get the [EMAIL P

Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread curious
pardon my stupidity.. what will this planned management software do? /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.curious.org/ / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail"This quote is f

[issues] Anyone going to theBazaar in NYC?

1999-12-03 Thread Maureen Lecuona
I noticed there's a linuxchix BOF one nite of this conference. Anyone attending? Maureen Lecuona [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Maureen Lecuona wrote: > Thanks. I just ordered it. What about GTK+? Any good docs out there? ObPlug: Yours truly wrote a chapter from the forthcoming Teach Yourself Gtk+ Programming. I haven't seen any really good stuff out there, but I do have the 10 Minute Total Idiot'

Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread Maureen Lecuona
I will check it out. Maureen Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Maureen Lecuona wrote: > > > Thanks. I just ordered it. What about GTK+? Any good docs out there? > > ObPlug: Yours truly wrote a chapter from the forthcoming Teach Yourself > Gtk+ Programming. > > I haven't seen

Re: [issues] Anyone going to theBazaar in NYC?

1999-12-03 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Maureen Lecuona wrote: > I noticed there's a linuxchix BOF one nite of this conference. > > Anyone attending? I was told, by Linuxchix member Rikki McGinty, that it had been cancelled! She had asked me to be there for it too. :( -- _Deirdre * http://www.linuxcabal.ne

Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread Maureen Lecuona
It's project management not planned management :-). Ever hear of (hate to write the word, MS Project). That's the basic idea. Maureen Lecuona curious wrote: > > pardon my stupidity.. > what will this planned management software do? > > /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [issues] Anyone going to theBazaar in NYC?

1999-12-03 Thread Maureen Lecuona
That's a shame. I would have gone to meet FTF some of the members... Oh well. Maureen Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Maureen Lecuona wrote: > > > I noticed there's a linuxchix BOF one nite of this conference. > > > > Anyone attending? > > I was told, by Linuxchix member Ri

Re: Project management software project, was Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier(was Re: 50 people to watch)

1999-12-03 Thread Maureen Lecuona
Are you still interested. Looks like we are moving ahead with this and we would certainly need more people to join. Copylefted software, btw... Maureen Lecuona Ian Phillips wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd work on a project management software project. Dancer's constantly > > > griping about the l

Re: Project management software project, was Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier(was Re: 50 people to watch)

1999-12-03 Thread Dan McGarry
Hi list; If you need resources for a project such as this, you might want to consider talking to the people at VA Linux. The following URI will give you an idea of the kind of support they're willing to offer to an endeavour such as yours. Check out: http://www.valinux.com/community/ Regards,