pytalk-development — Development-related discussions

[Pytalk-development] 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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[Pytalk-development] Pytalk and a NLIDB

[A. T. <ina...@ho...>]

Hi there,

I have been looking at the pytalk modules and am very impressed with the 
work done. I would like to use the newparser.py file (parser) to try to 
connect it to interface with a DB. Like a Natural language interface to a 
DB. I have constructed a GUI with a a text entry field and created an SQL 
DB.

I am new to python, and would be grateful for suggestions as to how to 
design the middle-tier to best interact with the SQL db. Any suggestions 
would be much appreciated.

Will keep you updated with my progress if you wish.

Thanks for any tips in advance!

Sham

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[Pytalk-development] Installing Pytallk-newbie!

[A. T. <ina...@ho...>]

Hi there,

I am new to the group, and am having trouble trying to install and run the 
Pytalk package. I am trying to write my own language parser in python, and 
am very excited to see how the Pytalk chatbot and parser works. hopefully it 
will give me some ideas and inspiration.

As I said, I am stuck and really struggling to get the code up and running. 
I have the relevant programs and files installed. Could someone please offer 
some introductory help with this brilliant project.

Thank you very much in advance for any help!

Kind regards,

A.t.

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