[Cuis] I need an idea. I know you have some. Give.

[Jerry Bell]

I would love to see an open source DabbleDB clone.

DabbleDB was a really wonderful and unique system which was sadly lost
when Twitter bought the company and shut the service down.   It was a
great example of really powerful software built in Squeak.

It >might< be possible to get Twitter to open source the original
code.  My understanding is that the company was purchased more for
their Trendly product and for the expertise of the Smallthought
Systems team in general.   Regardless, there is enough public
information out there from Avi to understand the basic architecture of
the system, and enough demos to understand how the user interface
worked.   IMHO, it's a fascinating architecture and well worth
learning about whether you actually pursue the project or not.

It would be an ambitious project.   But this sort of project, with
potential appeal to a much larger group than just Squeak developers,
might be more successful at raising funding on KickStarter than an
enhancement to Squeak itself.

-Jerry



On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Casey Ransberger
<casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Squeakers!
>
> My job search is turning up dead ends, hurry up and wait, and unfathomably boring prospects.
>
> Screw all that! I want to do something cool.
>
> I'm thinking about doing a KickStarter, but almost all of my ideas are either a) stuff no one else wants which only I could possibly think would be cool, or b) overly ambitious. The words Andreas used to describe my last idea: "a bit grandiose." Gift for understatement at times.
>
> So I'm looking for something which could be completed by one or two geeks in six months to a year, which people actually want, to be implemented (at least in part) using Squeak, and to be released at the end under the MIT license.
>
> I've floored my expenses, so I can make my own labor (relatively, for a guy living in Seattle) very cheap. By floored, I mean the room I sleep in isn't even tall enough to stand up in -- I do not presently meet the definition of a free-range chicken -- and I've disconnected my cellular service. I want to be an efficient engine for getting things that matter to me and other people done, rather than go on being some tool used to ship lucrative enterprise crapware.
>
> So here's the $x question: what do you want me to do? I have a Raspberry Pi on order, so bonus points if you can work that in somehow.
>
> The person with the best (realistic) idea will be credited for it.
>
> Inspire me! And thanks for reading all the way down to the bottom of this message.
>
> Casey
>
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