Re: [Roadnav-devel] Sponsor Roadnav development

[Ray M. <su...@be...>]

   My friend and I would love to see Roadnav 
development pick up again, "finishing" the stuff 
you have in experimental.  I appreciate the 
developer documentation for Roadnav and particularly 
the availibility of libroadnav with good documentation.
So often with open source what you need is out there, 
but not well documented so you'd have to slog through 
the source of various projects picking them apart and 
trying to figure out if they might work for you, and 
if so how.  Roadnav is a wonderful exception.

   Is there anything we can do to help?  I'm not 
a very good C programmer, and haven't done ANY GUI 
work in C, as all of my stuff is web based, mostly 
Perl.  My friend whom I'm working with is a C# programmer 
who is a little scared of C by I'm trying to get him 
to brave C a little a bit.  We might be most helpful 
with peripheral things like we have a virtualization 
platform to test it under various different operating 
systems, or what ever.  

   We / he is doing a complete integrated carputer 
package.  Something like MythTV, if you're familiar 
with that.  He has a working, themeable system that 
does mp3s, photos, DVDs, and AM/FM should work soon.
Al wrote a theft recovery package which we intend 
to integrate and we have some other ideas we'll be 
adding.  The idea is to provide a nicely integrated
system that works well without any hacking, and a 
combined interface.  The big missing part is GPS. 
While I'm a Linux guy, he's working in .NET 2.0
on Windows.  We may well port it to Linux using 
Mono.  He spent a little time the other day with 
wx.net trying to get libroadnav to compile and 
run in Windows, but hasn't had any luck so far.
He'd like to find someone to do a tidy .NET wrapper 
so he can integrate GPS without needing to develop 
a full understanding of wxWindows and all that.

   Let me know what we can do to help, and if you 
know anyone working on the Windows side, or who 
might be interested in working on the Windows 
package.
--
Ray B. Morris
su...@be...

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On 04/15/2009 03:15:59 PM, Dustin Spicuzza wrote:
> Ray Morris wrote:
> >    I see there hasn't been any Roadnav 
> > development recently.  Roadster and GMap 
> > seem to have similarly stalled.  We are 
> > willing to put up some cash to get one of 
> > these projects going again.  Is there any 
> > developer interest, assuming you could be 
> > paid (but not extremely WELL paid) for your 
> > work?
> 
> Last year I was the primary person doing development on Roadnav
> (username: virtuald/randomperson83), and theres actually a lot of 
> neat
> stuff sitting in the experimental branch waiting to be finished. In
> particular, the user interface responsiveness should be greatly
> improved
> (a version that was working in the summer had demonstrated those
> changes, but only worked in debug mode because I was an idiot about
> asserts() ), and moving to open street map data should be a huge
> improvement as well.
> 
> However, I stopped development in January because of my work with a
> local FIRST Robotics Team had been eating all of my time, and I've
> been
> intending to finish the changes as soon as that stopped sucking my
> time
> (this month). I'm anticipating that I'll begin working on this stuff
> again either late this month or next month, but no guarantees.
> 
> Personally, I'm probably not interested in the money, unless its more
> than I think it is -- but even then, probably not.
> 
> Dustin
> 
>