From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Schulte Subject: Re: converting people to Emacs and org-mode Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:17:42 -0600 Message-ID: <878v4ne5kj.fsf@gmail.com> References: <80250278-A37A-4F8E-9414-51241E8A06B9@gmail.com> <87obdom3s8.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <20130409100330.GJ3650@cardamom.adamsinfoserv.com> <8738uzubwa.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87li8r3em4.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <86fvyzekhp.fsf@somewhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41354) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQme9-0001NA-9D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:40:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQme7-00085g-Qr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:40:41 -0400 Received: from mail-da0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::235]:47342) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQme7-00085J-LH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:40:39 -0400 Received: by mail-da0-f53.google.com with SMTP id n34so1308471dal.40 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:40:38 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Sebastien Vauban Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Last fall I wrote a very simple elnode based web server which allows for Org-mode files to be viewed and edited through a web browser. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/58773/focus=61752 It seems relevant to this discussion. I haven't touched the code in some time, so it may need to be updated to work with a current Org-mode (although it did use the new exporter). I've had a version running on my home server continuously since the fall, and find it is the only way I can get non-Emacs people to edit Org-mode files. Cheers, "Sebastien Vauban" writes: > Hi Christopher, > > Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> Eric Abrahamsen writes: >>> Russell Adams writes: >>> >>>> My experience has been that after watching me manage a project in Org >>>> for a few weeks, I have customers beg me to help them install it on >>>> their PC. I've had quite a few converts through working together and >>>> by example. >>> >>> Perhaps the web incarnations of org could help here too. Say the manager >>> of a small group project were able to create a web-version of an agenda, >>> and project members could filter that by clicking on javascript-enabled >>> versions of tags corresponding to their TODOs, and even click the TODOs >>> to change state, that could be a nice introduction to project management >>> in Org. It might require too much org functionality to be re-written in >>> javascript though? Dunno. >> >> I think a web application that allowed for >> orgmode-as-a-group-todo-management-system thing would be huge. It would >> require a lot of thinking of how to approach it in a way that would be >> nice and make sense. I'm not really sure what it would look like. But >> hook that up to git and you'd have a really interesting bug tracking >> system. > > I guess it should be in the spirit of configurable organizers like the > TiddlyWiki based GTD systems (see http://www.tiddlywiki.com/): > > - MPTW (MonkeyPirateTiddlyWiki) :: http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/ > - mGSD :: http://mgsd.tiddlyspot.com/demo3.html and > http://thinkcreatesolve.biz/mGSDEnhancements.html > - D-cubed > - tbGTD :: http://tbgtd.tiddlyspot.com/ > > That is the killer brother application for Org, for sure. > >> There was that relevant GSoC project, but I'd be interested in this >> happening in python or similar. Now that we have the standard for >> orgmode as a file format... > > Best regards, > Seb -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte