The project of the month for april 2010 is Kinovea. This project is developped on CodingTeam.net since september 2008!

Kinovea is a video analysis tool for sport coaches and athletes. The main focus is to enable performance analysis through a straightforward interface. The most important functions (aside frame by frame playback) are video-drawing and side by side comparison.

The project started as a small freeware in 2004, then underwent a full rewrite starting in 2006, with the first open source version available in 2008. The project is also used by 2D/3D animators to comment on each others works.

Kinovea was rewarded in 2009: it was the third project in the Multimedia category of Les Trophées du Libre.

And now, a few questions asked to the project leader!

  • How did you know CodingTeam?

    I honestly don't remember how I stumbled upon CodingTeam, it probably was on Veni Vidi Libri wiki (a website to help Open Source software authors with licensing and organising). What I do remember is that I was attracted by the human-sized structure and clean design. The fact that the forge is open was also a strong point. It suddenly made me realise that most other forges weren't quite coherent in their approach.
     
  • What CodingTeam brings in your project development?

    We are mostly using the subversion repository facility, its web interface, and the RSS feed of code changes.
     
  • What would you see in CodingTeam in the future?

    I think one area that could be worth exploring is to give the administrator of a project more access to the underlying data of his project. For example, the wiki pages (including history) could be made downloadable on demand as a single archive, to provide an extra backup mechanism.

    I think there are already a whole lot of interesting features, probably more than one can dream of. As a matter of fact, it might be interesting to give project admins the ability to hide/show tabs to better match the tools they actually use.

    That said, I'm looking forward Mercurial support, I know it's in the works :-)
     
  • Since you use CodingTeam, did you became rich and sexy?

    Definitely. Each time I use CodingTeam, I gain one extra point of sexiness. Now I need to figure out how to fix the sexy, sexy bugs I write :-)
     

Thanks to Joan who answered to my questions! Feel free to take a look at Kinovea!