[KLUG Members] A Note To Potential Presenters

[Jim Pharis]

Mr. Project. Didn't know that existed. As far as Dia goes, its a good app
but has this person taken a look into the new koffice Kivio.


On 10 Jul 2001, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> Don't think your qualified to present at KLUG?  We have people ask us to
> cover "applications" all the time.  And some very cool ones (or new
> versions) were announced very recently so I've listed them below.  By
> covering a Linux application you can not only contribute back to KLUG
> and its members, but help defeat the "But the're ain't no stinkin' apps"
> myth.
>
> Gnome Meeting
> ----------------------------------------------------
> An H323 Video and/or Voice Conferencing application,  similair to
> Microsoft NetMeeting, and compatible with NetMeeting and several other
> IP Telephony products.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> http://people.redhat.com/alexl/RPMS/
> http://www.gnomemeeting.org/
>
> Gstreamer
> ----------------------------------------------------
> While not an "end-user" application (it is billed as a developers tool)
> the sample application is probably one of the best media players
> available for Linux,  capable of playing just about any file format know
> to man.  It can even use Windows DLL files to play files in CODECS not
> yet natively supported on Linux.
> -----------------------------------------------------
> http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/1504/2001/6/0/6059206/
> http://gstreamer.net/
> http://gstreamer.net/gstmediaplay.shtml
>
> Mr. Project
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Mr. Project is nothing other than a project managment application,
> complete with resource allocation, task dependencies, and the Gannt
> charts.  More features on the way...
> -----------------------------------------------------
> http://mrproject.codefactory.se/
>
> GLAME
> -----------------------------------------------------
> "A capable and easily extensible free sound editor."  Also called "The
> GIMP" of sound,  there isn't much this application can't do to an audio
> file.
> -----------------------------------------------------
> http://glame.sourceforge.net/index.var
>
> Gramps
> ------------------------------------------------------
> A geneologoy tool on steroids,  you can even include pictures.  Outputs
> reports to Abiword, Open Office, and PDF.  Web page generation.  And all
> stored in XML of course.  Who said there wasn't a Linux app for
> absolutely everything.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> http://gramps.sourceforge.net/
>
> GNOME Toaster
> -------------------------------------------------------
> The ultimate CD creation front end.  On the fly copy, drag-n-drop, mixed
> audio and data, create bootable CDs, CD/RW blanking, multi-session,
> etc... Just about anything you could image doing to a CD,  and probably
> a few you wouldn't have thought of.
> -------------------------------------------------------
> http://gnometoaster.rulez.org/
>
> Dia
> --------------------------------------------------------
> A flow chart and diagram application.  Supports UML, ERDs, electronic
> schematics, network diagrams, etc....   And if it doesn't have the
> shapes you need you can simply add them using a subset of SVG.  There is
> even a current version for Win32.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/
>
> Overflow
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> This one definitely is NOT an end-user app,  but sooo cool I don't even
> really understand WHAT it is.  A "data-flow" oriented tool for building
> real-time multimedia application,  or that's at least one possible use
> according to the web site.  Or you could just use it to whip up a Nueral
> Net application or do some signal processing.  Very high geek factor!
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> http://freespeech.sourceforge.net/overflow.html
>
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Sincerely, Jim Pharis



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