Re: Best practice for providing an Org-based application?

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

It would be helpful to get a better sense of what is the private data,
e.g. is it something like org-contacts, or some structured data in a
heading? and what are the workflows that might be generic.

I have used org for lots of organizational things in the past, ranging
from conference organization, teaching classes, running job searches,
organizing special issues in scientific publications and lately to
organize some things for a cub scout troop. They have all been pretty
different, but I am sure I have reinvented pieces of it each time. I am
interested in learning more about what you are doing.



Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a best practice or recommended approach for preparing and
> providing an Org-based application so that others could make use of it?
>
> I've been using Org for a few years to keep track of the membership and
> 'fixing' for my choir - where 'fixing' means finding out and recording who
> can sing in each concert, who will be there for rehearsals, and so on.
> This involves a mix of data that is private to my choir, and workflows and
> code that are potentially generic.  I don't know how many people in the
> world are both choir organisers and Emacs users, but it seems to me that it
> could be useful to separate out and document the generic code and
> workflows, so that others could use that as well as me, and that it would
> also be an interesting technical challenge.
>
> Has anyone else done something like this?  I wonder if you have
> recommendations for how to document, structure and publish this kind of
> thing?
>
> Many thanks!
>    Neil


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