projects of interest? - mebot

Emre Turkay emreturkay at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 11:04:57 CEST 2007


It looks nice, integration with RTM especially for the task-sharing
functionality would be great.

On 7/19/07, Justyn Butler <justynbutler+openmoko at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Really loving this idea. I currently use RTM (rememberthemilk.com) for GTD -
> it has a great web interface. As soon as I can (won't be that soon) I'll
> start looking at how feasible a RTM plugin for Mebot might be.
>
> Justyn
>
> ps. sorry for all the acronyms
>
>
> On 18/07/07, Emre Turkay <emreturkay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm planning to use it to implement a GTD[1] utility.
> >
> > Imagine an application showing an action to do. There are three
> > buttons, "done" (I've done it delete from the queue), "defer" (defer
> > it to a later time), "cancel" (there is no need to do this anymore, or
> > it requires further thinking). When any one of these buttons is
> > clicked the next action item brought forward.
> >
> > Now, imagine, combining this with GPS. In this case, it shows me stuff
> > I should do at home, when I'm home and stuff I should do at work, when
> > I'm at work. Pop up my feed-reader when I'm traveling, etc.
> >
> > Consider there is a simple market-list application, in which I note
> > the stuff I need to buy from market, time to time. When I approach to
> > the market moko starts an audio alert and tells me to stop by the
> > market to buy stuff. When I enter the market automatically pops up my
> > market list.
> >
> > I'm thinking about a plug-in architecture so you can extend this idea
> > as far as it goes, bugzilla integration, mail client integration, web
> > browser integration, integration with an outliner/mindmapper, project
> > planner, tomboy, etc. Every new plug-in will open a door to another
> > cool idea.
> >
> > Started to write it a couple weeks ago, got a sourceforge account[2].
> > There is a very trivial demonstration application on subversion and as
> > a tarball download.
> >
> > If there is anybody interested I would love to discuss.
> >
> > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gtd
> > [2] http://mebot.sourceforge.net
> >
> > emre
> >
> > On 7/17/07, Daniel Robinson <dgrobinson at dgrobinson.com> wrote:
> > > What are the projects of interest for people?
> > >
> > > I am interested in working on kid's phones.  I have wanted a kid's phone
> > > that was not as brain-dead as the phones that are currently targeted at
> > > children.  I like that the Neo1973 has a secure tether point.  I want
> the
> > > phone to be tethered to my kid's backpack or clothing so it can't be
> lost or
> > > stolen.
> > >
> > > In terms of software, I want to work on GPS related things.  It would be
> > > good to know where my kids are and when they exit certain zones, e.g.,
> > > school.
> > >
> > > --Dan
> > >
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