[Grassroots-l] ProjectDB and management tools for Pilots/Projects

Mel Chua mel at melchua.com
Thu Aug 14 21:18:56 EDT 2008


I'm interested in the meeting but won't be able to access the internet 
at that time - may I request an IRC meeting and transcripts of such?

I'm also copying Mia, who wrote 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program_review_process (it's a 
start, but needs fleshing-in).

-Mel

Seth Woodworth wrote:
> SJ, Pia Waugh, and I had a very interesting conversation tonight about 
> organizing projects and proposals via a web interface such as Austria's 
> ProjectDB (http://projectdb.olpc.at).  While I think that there are 
> several more things that the wiki can and should be doing via Semantic 
> MediaWiki, there are several things that wiki will never be able to do.
> 
> There is a growing need for some project/proposal management tools that 
> are a little smarter about keeping private information private, which is 
> the current use of the ProjectDB.  There are several ways that ProjectDB 
> could be expanded and used by individual OLPC groups (like olpc.org.au 
> <http://olpc.org.au>).
> 
> We're going to have an open meeting on the subject at:
> 
> * 23:00 Friday, August 15th, UTC
> **9:00AM Sat .au
> **6:00PM Fri .us
> 
> Reply to this thread if you would prefer IRC or Phone and some brief 
> thoughts on the subject.
> 
> All the best,
> Seth Woodworth
> 
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