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[Krimpy-develop] FASD project: Online survey launched

[<ben...@id...>]

Dear Open Source developer

I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate.
You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it.

With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development.


With many thanks for your participation,
Benno Luthiger


PS:
The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/.
We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list.

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Benno Luthiger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zurich

Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch
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[Krimpy-develop] Re: New Routines

[Bob V. <van...@ho...>]

Is it necessary to use XQL?  Will the XPath capability in the XML engine 
that we are already using work?

Thanks for the props on lyrics.zip...if we can find and parse other lyrics 
search engine sites, it would make it that much more powerful.  We should 
entertain the idea of contributing lyrics to the site also, so Krimpy is not 
strictly a leech app.  There is a version of the id3tag that allows 
attaching song lyrics, so tying these functions together would be ideal.

bob.


>From: Man...@co...
>To: "Bob Vanourek" <van...@ho...>
>CC: Tea...@Ho...
>Subject: Re: New Routines
>Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:23:26 +0100
>
>
>Bob, Jackie
>
>   I  have  started  work on the lyric .zip you had sent.  It is definetly 
>a
>good feature, I really like it.
>   Will update you on the progress of my work and the problems too.
>
>   J2X  (Java XML Parser) a joint venture of MicroSoft and Datachannel is 
>MS
>compatible.
>   MicroSoft  has provided classes for XQL in .NET.  I am not able to find 
>a
>suitable
>   Windows compatible XQL Engine.
>
>
>  Manish.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>"Bob Vanourek" <van...@ho...> on 01/08/2003 21:57:42
>
>To:    Man...@co...
>cc:    kri...@li..., tea...@ho...
>Subject:    New Routines
>
>
>Manish,
>
>I wrote some lyric-retrieving and lyric-submitting routines for inclusion
>in
>Krimpy, but I need your help.  Please try out this attached app.  There is
>a
>class that contains search and submit routines, some of which are
>demonstrated with the form.  Some of the functions return XML content, and
>we need to be able to parse it.  It would be very cool, and unique from
>other p2p clients, to have this lyric search functionality.
>
>Can you write some xml routines to pull out the data that is returned from
>these functions?
>
>bob.
>
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[Krimpy-develop] New Routines

[Bob V. <van...@ho...>]

Manish,

I wrote some lyric-retrieving and lyric-submitting routines for inclusion in 
Krimpy, but I need your help.  Please try out this attached app.  There is a 
class that contains search and submit routines, some of which are 
demonstrated with the form.  Some of the functions return XML content, and 
we need to be able to parse it.  It would be very cool, and unique from 
other p2p clients, to have this lyric search functionality.

Can you write some xml routines to pull out the data that is returned from 
these functions?

bob.

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[Krimpy-develop] Re: krimpy Source Changes -- done

[Bob V. <van...@ho...>]

Manish,

jackie and i were talking about an idea we had for an enhancement to krimpy. 
  Wouldn't it be nice if a krimpy user could enter some keywords in a 
Textbox that were lyrics to a song they want, and krimpy would do a query to 
a lyric server that responds with song names?  The user could then follow up 
with a search for that song name.  Users don't always know the names of the 
songs they want.  I found this site http://lyrictracker.com/soap.html that 
has a quasi-SOAP interface for doing such queries, and responding with an 
XML response.  There is also functionality to submit lyrics.  Some mp3 files 
even have the lyrics stored in there ID3 (version 2?) tags.

In response to the central DTD idea, I can't think of a reason why a user 
would use krimpy in an "offline" mode.

Do you have an instant messenger program for real-time development 
discussions?  AIM, ICQ,...

bob.

>From: Man...@co...
>To: tea...@ho...,van...@ho...
>Subject: Re: krimpy Source Changes -- done
>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:03:40 +0100
>
>
>Jackie, Bob
>
>I  can  do  the XQL part you require for the project. I understand  that by
>putting the library database
>in XML will definetly boost the application performance. Though overhead of
>connecting to the XQL Engine will still remain.
>
>This reminds me, which XQL Engine you want me to use in order to execute 
>the XQL statements?
>There are few in market like the most famous GMD-IPSI XQL engine  but can 
>only be used for development purposes.
>
>Regarding the location of the XML DTD file, we have to consider whether a 
>client can use our application  offline
>or not connected to the internet. If the answer is 'Yes' then will the 
>local
>xml file (the one which is referencing the DTD kept in central location) be 
>used.
>Because if used (offline) the local XML file will throw an error, as it 
>will not be able to locate the DTD file.
>
>Cheers
>Manish Agarwal
>
>
>
>
>
>
>"Team Krimpy" <tea...@ho...> on 29/07/2003 15:37:58
>
>To:    Man...@co...
>cc:
>Subject:    Re: krimpy Source Changes -- done
>
>
>I looked at the code last night. It looks great! Good work Manish. I went
>ahead and posted it to our CVS repository. How are you at querying XML
>databases? We would like to replace the current Microsoft Access database
>that stores the user's media catalog with a XML database. If you look
>through the code, you'll see SQL statements like...
>
>SELECT Filename FROM MediaCatalog WHERE SongName LIKE *Gainesville*
>
>These need to be replaced with XML queries (XQL?). The database and schema
>files would be similar to the ones you created for the settings.
>
>Let me know what you think.
>
>- JT
>
>
>
>
> >From: Man...@co...
> >To: tea...@ho...
> >CC: bob...@us...
> >Subject: krimpy Source Changes -- done
> >Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:16:40 +0100
> >
> >Hi Jackie,
> >
> >
> >I have updated the code in Krimpy_src_0.1.2 version. The code works as
> >discussed. Please check it and inform me about
> >bugs (if any) or if I have misunderstood any functionality.
> >
> >I have inclreased the version number to krimpy_src_0.1.3. The zip file is
> >attached here with the mail.
> >
> >(See attached file: krimpy_src_0.1.3.zip)
> >
> >
> >Cheers
> >Manish Agarwal
> >
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[Krimpy-develop] XML DTD

[Bob V. <van...@ho...>]

Manish,

Would it be advantageous to put the XML DTD file up in a central location, 
such as the krimpy.sourceforge.net site, and reference that file in the 
local XML file?  Jackie and I were discussing the pros and cons of that.

We really would like to see the library database in XML to remove the 
dependency on the Access MDB file.  Do you agree with going forward with 
that?

bob.

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[Krimpy-develop] Recruitment

[Bob V. <van...@ho...>]

I just wanted to let our developer team know we are trying to recruit two 
"positions" right now:  a Regular Expressions expert(s) and an XML 
expert(s).  If any of you know of anyone who could contribute, let us know.  
We already have a few responses regarding R.E.

bob.

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[Krimpy-develop] preliminary todo

[Bob V. <van...@ho...>]

Some ideas to be implemented soon (for the next release):

-Move from Access MDB file database for storage to XML format
-Incorporation of id3tags info
-text format language file for localized Krimpy menus and messages
-more intuitive and user-friendly GUI

what else?

*longer term
-python port of krimpy?
-protocol definition
-use of freenet?

bob.

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