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Project of the Month #3 - Jappix

The project of the month for may 2010 is Jappix. This is a very new project developped on CodingTeam.net since april 2010!

According to the project leader, Jappix is a Jabber web-client that aims at becoming the web equivalent of Gajim. It means that loads of XMPP XEP will be supported, and the client will probably become a "mini" social network, entirely based on the XMPP protocole, with the help of PubSub.

The graphical aspect is also very important to the Jappix team as they want the non-profit Jappix project to be as good as other commercial web-app. According to them, the user has to feel good while using it: “ The Jabber network needs good clients, so that we can do it and convert everyone to Jabber. Let's decentralize the instant messenging ! ”

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

  • How did you know CodingTeam?

    I know Codingteam thanks to Edouard, who posted a comment on my weblog, that told me he was using CodingTeam.net since a few time and it was pretty good for his projects (in fact, they were shared faster). At the really beginning, I wanted to use Launchpad.net from Canonical, but I saw that it wasn't as good as I expected. Here came CodingTeam.net !
     
  • What CodingTeam brings in your project development?

    CodingTeam brings us a better organisation, mostly with the bugs reporting tool, that we use mainly as a ToDo list (because I report all the functionalities that I'd like to code for the next versions with that tool).

    On the one hand, CodingTeam.net brings us a simple hosting platform for our project, with a great SVN repository and package hosting, with the principal advandage that is to get a quick view of the total number of downloads, with the popularity of our project on the platform. The OpenForge API is also great, because we use it to retrieve data on one of our external website.

    On the other hand, the work of the translators was really simplified thanks to CodingTeam, because they are able to start translating from a simple web interface, and they do not need to contact us anymore to send any translated strings file ! That's simple, direct, and powerful.

    There are loads of things that CodingTeam has which make me love it (the XMPP functionnalities and so on). It make us work even faster and easier, together.
     
  • What would you see in CodingTeam in the future?

    Well, I think that, in a first, some tools like the translation engine might be improved to allow anonymous users translating the project that they want to. Then, I really think that opening the forge to other repository protocols (principally Git), because some developers can't bear Subversion...

    Allowing project managers to add external Jabber rooms or external repositories would be great too. Maybe that on some CodingTeam modules, the performances should be increased too: the page generation can be very slow by using a particular tool and very fast with some other tools.
     
  • Since you use CodingTeam, did you became rich and sexy?

    Well, I got lots of donations (74€) for the project (I don't know if it's thanks to the "donate" link on CodingTeam.net or the one on my weblog), but the main thing is that it allowed me to code even faster and better.
     

Thanks to Valérian who answered to my questions! Feel free to take a look at Jappix!

By Erwan on Saturday, May 29 2010, 18:50 - Project of the Month

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Project of the Month #2 - Kinovea

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!

By Erwan on Tuesday, April 27 2010, 00:47 - Project of the Month

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Project of the Month #1 - Bechamail

The project of the month is an interesting project using the CodingTeam software forge. Each month, I'll pick up another project that looks attractive and speak about it on this blog. Thus, the community gets a place to be known. So if you use CodingTeam (either CodingTeam.net or your own forge) your project can appear here! By the way, if you think that it would be captivating to present your project here, let me know!

The project of the month for february 2010 is Bechamail. And it becomes the first project of the month!

Bechamail is lead by Robert Sebille on CodingTeam.net since november 2007! He works on this project since 2005 for his association with help and feedbacks from the other members of it.

Bechamail is a French-speaking project written in PHP. It's an e-mail addresses manager. Concretely, it helps the sysadmin by providing an user oriented tool to easily configure e-mail addresses for one or more domain names. It fits to MTA and MDA configuration.

This project has been developed in an associative context as Robert is one of the fouding members of Cassiopea. The goal of this association is to heavily connect associative virtual networks and to help people to understand new technologies. Cassiopea provides internet services such as implementation or development of websites, mailing lists, domain names, e-mail addresses, trainings… to other Belgian associations.

Bechamail is born in 2005 because, at the start of this associative project, whenever it was necessary to create, modify or delete an alias or an e-mail box, they had to intervene on the server. It was inevitable to automate the process and allow members to manage their e-mails easily.

Bechamail is successfully used at Cassiopea and also at Banlieues, an association that focuses on the disadvantaged public. Those who want to try Bechamail can !

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

  • How did you know CodingTeam?

    By searching the web for forges lists (but I don't remember where). Functionnalities suited me and it was in French and English. It looked good to me to support a sofware forge available in French. There were not many.
     
  • What CodingTeam brings in your project development?

    Usual functionnalities of a software forge of course, like the essential SVN. Once you start to use CodingTeam, it's so practical, how to do without? ;). I remember a day, there was once a technical issue on the the server side, I really appreciated to be able to discuss it on the chatroom and the CodingTeam reactivity!
     
  • What would you see in CodingTeam in the future?

    I was going to say the dashboard, but it's already done ;), great! Then, e-mail report when someone answers to a bug or a feature request. Otherwise, I have to think regularly to consult the bug tracker or the RSS feed, and I don't always think about it, especially if I am busy with another project for a few months. That's why e-mail notifications would be useful for me, because I could see them even if I'm working elsewhere. I read the discussion here. The solution to choose to receive or not notifications seems good to me.
     
  • Since you use CodingTeam, did you became rich and sexy?

    Rich with money? Not so. On the other side, I found a lot of fortunes on CodingTeam.net ;). Sexy? I was already sexy before, in my point of view. ;)
     
Thanks to Robert who answered to my questions! Feel free to take a look at Bechamail!

By Erwan on Monday, February 15 2010, 01:39 - Project of the Month

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