NetFraggle - A multipurpose collaboration tool

Project Summary

Keywords

• Easy NFO User Interfacing

1. "Push"

• Link-Poster (mail2news, nntp2rss , IRClinkparser, mail2twiki)
  • Autoupdating, syncing/replication
• Announcement-/Idea-Poster
• Sorted by categories or Topics from FraggleXml
• AddTopic^?
• "Private Item"-Checkbox

2. "Pull"

• "Poller" (Syncen ueber pollen, oder mit einzelnen Netzwerkverbindungen via KeepAlive^?)
• Assignment-tracker
• Possibility of adding remarks to any Item or Topic
• PopUp^? / OnMouse^? / OnChange^?
• MonitorAnyTopic^?
• "Synchronizitäts-Bridge"

3. "Request & Response"

• Search-Frontend (send request to search.netfrag.org, retrieve results as rss)

General functionality

• Interface per:
  • GUI
  • Pipe und Parameter
  • Right-Click (Win32-OLE, KDE-DCOP)
• Privacy for any topic (Based on User permissions)
• Drag & Drop
• Iconbar (Quickbar) support
• Implementation in Python and wxWindows
• Administration via a seperated Webinterface for security reasons (Fraggle.xml)
• schedule updates (sync)
• local data storage (prefs, etc.)
• OS Autostart
• disconnected mode

Ideas

• Terminplaner
• Intercommunication (Messages / Whiteboard)

• Nice, Easy Look & Feel (skins!?)
• "Remark AnyItem^?" (e.g. from Aggregator)

• Speech-Control and Text-To-Speech

Rules

• Keep it simple, stupid (KISS)

• Topics are Containers
• Topics can be edited, followed up and posted to
• Topics contain Items

• All Content should be kept in xml and database Format (MySql^?)
• Working in all with one table

Roadmap

• First working code
  • Admin (XML-Datei in TWiki-Page): FraggleXml
  • Middleware (XML-RPC <-> daemon <-> TWiki)
    • fraggleSync(), see fraggleSync.py
  • fraggle.py mit xmlrpclib und Topics-Listbox

• [...]

• Advanced Version
  • NewsReader^?-Komponente (RSS-Item -> GUI-Item)

Development

• FraggleDev^?

Prerequisites

• Win32
  • Python
  • wxPython
  • PyXML

-- Main.xabbu - 23 Aug 2004