Re: GSoC 2009 - Mind Mapping Tool

[Adam Schreiber <sadam clemson edu>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Eddy Zavaleta
<ezavaleta users sourceforge net> wrote:
> I was looking for an opinion because I submitted other idea to the
> evince team and “not interested” was the answer.

That's not surprising as a mind mapping application would not be
within evince's purview.

Off the top of my head, this seems like a visualize notebook plugin
for Tomboy.  Given that most of the l.g.o ideas dealed with tasks,
this would probably work out well since Tomboy has a Tasque plugin and
Tasque supports EDS as a backend.

> I have been reading about Clutter and it seems to be the new direction
> to take in graphical apps. I already followed this tutorial
> [http://www.openismus.com/documents/clutter_tutorial/0.9/docs/tutorial/html/index.html]
> (I am not sure to understand  pretty much  the concept) but I made a
> little school project using Clutter and It seems nice to me.
> I will start creating a proposal draft and I would like to get some
> help, especially in delimitation and the approach to take. Where can I
> put/send it?
>
> Thanks for reply.
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Adam Schreiber <sadam clemson edu> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Eddy Zavaleta
>> <ezavaleta users sourceforge net> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My name is Eddy Zavaleta, an student from ESCOM/IPN (National Polytechnic
>>> Institute), which is in Mexico City, Mexico.
>>>
>>> I want to participate in GSoC 2009, I read the article Mind Mapping
>>> [http://live.gnome.org/MindMapping] and I would like to get involved with
>>> the gnome project, I want to start developing a Mind Mapping application for
>>> the GNOME Desktop.
>>
>> That looks like a good idea for a proposal.
>>
>>> Maybe you can give me some advice for addressing this proposal, I already
>>> send a mail to the gnome-list mailing list but nobody answers.
>>
>> That's because gnome-list is very low traffic and is inappropriate for
>> this kind of message.  gnome-soc-list gnome org is what you wanted.
>>
>> I would think Clutter would be ideal for this kind of interface.
>> Other than that I'm not sure what kind of help you're looking for in
>> writing a proposal.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Eddy Zavaleta
>>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Adam
>>
>
> Regards,
>
> Eddy Zavaleta
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