From: Andrew Young <youngar17@gmail.com>
To: Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2012 Student Application
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 07:20:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMvvmF9N0c=KPt78N=-Hcy1m+w+A2LnW1pxU6DMYbtTMq9tdUQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPaq-gN--iH2Q_bXxCvZxL_xhM7e0aBVO90SH14fp8ZvbKsbkw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
>
> Reading this proposal and having a bit background in writing
> proposals, I have the following suggestion:
>
> * I'm not sure everyone (at least the one who review this) know what
> org-mode is. There should be a very small summary about org-mode and
> the key-benefit being plain text (which is why you can start this
> project after all).
This raises the point that I have no idea at all who will be reviewing
my proposal. I originally wrote the proposal targeting Org-Mode devs
as the audience. This has provided some important insight to my
application. Thank you!
>
> * In the way the proposal is written, you address org-mode users which
> uses git (later you mention other CVS too). This actually makes, or at
> least sound like, the proposal being only useful for a (small)
> intersection of users namely org-mode AND (in the sense of an logic
> AND) git-user.
> I would find it more useful to describe this work as being an
> extension for org-mode users;
> ** They can start to collaborate on a org-mode files, including
> collaboration with users of possible other software tools (e.g.
> mobileorg apps).
> ** Org-mode user can use a CVS system which is not only of interest
> for collaboration but for keeping a chronological order of changes in
> e.g. a project file.
> ** It makes org-mode a possible tool for software developers which can
> now use org-files e.g. for documentation and notes beside there source
> code in the same git repository.
>
> All this points would show that the proposal is going to extend
> org-mode instead of being "limited" useful for only a very particular
> user-base. Finally, I guess it would be good to mention that this
> project (and org-mode in general) is not limited to a OS but attracts
> users of MS Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Simply to demonstrate that the
> user-base can be expected to be rather large.
> (Not sure if the GNU people like this ;) )
>
> Torsten
These are all great suggestions and points. This triggered a complete
rewrite of the benefits section. Thank you for your help.
Regards,
Andrew Young
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-05 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-05 4:25 Google Summer of Code 2012 Student Application Andrew Young
2012-04-05 6:48 ` Bastien
2012-04-05 7:46 ` Torsten Wagner
2012-04-05 7:46 ` Torsten Wagner
2012-04-05 11:20 ` Andrew Young [this message]
2012-04-05 11:49 ` Andrew Young
2012-04-05 12:59 ` Bastien
2012-04-05 13:36 ` Thorsten
2012-04-05 14:07 ` Bastien
2012-04-06 7:57 ` Bastien
2012-04-06 9:40 ` Thorsten
2012-04-06 10:44 ` Andrew Young
2012-04-06 6:23 ` Carsten Dominik
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