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[Steve Conklin <sconklin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm interested, but I'm not sure I have any more time to contribute to
new projects, and I'm not a terribly effective Perl hacker.

However, here's my in-process project:

I hacked an xml export function into xlog that creates an xml data file.
The data in the file is simple ADIF data in XML format, as I needed XML
data for an experimental QSO mapping tool I mocked up using google
maps. 

I am interested in specifying and implementing data formats for
interoperability between ham apps, and will probably follow any project
with an eye on that. I would like to see apps implement a set of hooks
that can be used on top of changing data formats and transports, since
these are not well defined or standardized yet.

That's compatible with the goal of supporting different logging file
formats (SQL, XMLRPC, whatever), so whatever project(s) move forward,
this is the area I'm most interested in.

I can almost promise you that I will not produce anything meaningful on
these projects by field day.

Steve

On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 09:36 +0930, Paul Schulz wrote:
> Hi Nate and the group..
> 
> I also have an 'on-going' hacking project on a contest logger.
> - Based on 'xlog' (Ubuntu package)
> - My changes are in a git repository here:
>     http://git.mawsonlakes.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=paul/xlog
> - Written in c.
> 
> I attempting to convert the GUI GTK to libglade to make it more
> customisable at runtime, and suitable for other radio logging other
> than just contests... (eg nets, message passing) and I am treating it
> as a personal learning project.
> 
> There are some common things that would help both projects..
> 
> - standardised log format (eg. use SQLlite, or a tagged LDAP type format)
> - well defined data entry 'flow'.
> - standard 'hot/shortcut keys'
> 
> xlog currently uses a fixed testfile format. You can add fields, but
> removing fields will delete historical data.
> 
> I was also blogging about my progress.. before that came to a grinding halt.
> http://mawsonlakesorg.blogspot.com/2010/03/part-3a-xlog-preparing-to-hack.html
> 
> Cheers and 73's
> Paul - VK5FPAW
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Nate Bargmann <n0nb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi All.
> >
> > Okay, here goes.  Last night during the net with Steve and Kamal as the
> > band was folding I tried to tell them about a contest logger I had done
> > some hacking on late last year and early this year.  So far it only
> > exists in a local Git repository on my hard drive and has not seen the
> > light of day.  After thinking about it overnight I have decided to
> > invite the Ubuntu Hams list to the discussion.
> >
> > This program is originally based on YFKtest by Fabian, DJ1YFK:
> >
> > http://fkurz.net/ham/yfktest.html
> >
> > It is written in Perl and uses the Curses module for its UI.  At the
> > moment, the only other module used is IO::Socket::INET (for rigctld and
> > cwdaemon) so it is quite generic and may run on older Perl versions even
> > though I have been working with it in Perl 5.10.x on Debian Sid.
> >
> > I started with the SVN checkout of YFKtest as of 30 October 2009 and
> > imported it into my Git repository so all of the prior change record is
> > intact that I could get from SVN.  My changes are minor, mostly reworking
> > the Curses UI more to my liking although the experimental branch holds work
> > for converting to the new Extended Response Protocol of rigctld in
> > Hamlib 1.2.11.  Also, since many of the pending changes have reworked
> > much of Fabian's and his contributors' code, I chose to rename it CTest
> > which pays homage to its intended familiar look of CT and its ancestor,
> > YFKtest.
> >
> > Why am I stating all of this?  Because, the project will go nowhere with
> > just me doing it!  ;-)  Here is what I am thinking of doing.
> >
> > 1. Import the Git repo into Bazaar.
> > 2. Setup my Launchpad account to host the CTest project.
> > 3. Let Ubuntu Hams at it as a team project.
> > 4. Hack away!
> > 5. ?????
> > 6. Profit!  (how'd that Slashdot meme sneak in here?)
> >
> > Some things to consider before I start, is this worthwhile?  Is Perl a
> > proper language to do this in (besides the fact that I feel quite
> > comfortable in Perl, is it really the way forward for something that
> > will become complex, multi-threaded, etc.?)?  Besides YFKtest, does this
> > duplicate any effort currently in *active* development that I am unaware
> > of?
> >
> > There will likely be plenty of questions to be answered, but if the team
> > is willing, I'll get my part done as quickly as I can.  At this point it
> > is somewhat usable, but not my experimental branch ATM (but that's all
> > the fun, right?).
> >
> > Please, let me know if this is wanted by the Ubuntu Hams team!  Maybe we
> > could hack up something usable by Field Day.  ;-)
> >
> > 73, de Nate >>
> >
> > --
> >
> > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
> > possible worlds.  The pessimist fears this is true."
> >
> > Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html
> >
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