Collaborative Getting Things GNOME!

GTG provides great user experience for individuals. I would like to implement sharing tasks between users. GNOME will become the first desktop with built-in task sharing. This would made it the desktop of choice for small to medium businesses.

Project page | Full text of the proposal | Code repository | How to setup server

Contact information

E-mail: izidor.matusov@gmail.com
IRC: Izidor in gimpnet (#gtg)
Launchpad account: izidor
Blog: izidor.matusov.sk

Reports

• Week #01

• Week #02, Collaborative GTG (blogpost)

• Week #03 & #04

• Mockups of Collaborative GTG (Week #05)

• Contact widgets preview (Week #07)

• See you at GUADEC (Week #09)

• Hot end of the summer (Final report)

How does it look like?

Configuration of a PubSub service:

Sharing is configured per tag in the tag editor:

Assigning tasks to teammates:

Mockup for solving merge conflicts (not implemented yet):

Screencasts

• First prototype of collaborative Getting Things GNOME!

• Preview of contact widgets

How to install it

1. Setup XMPP server on your computer

2. Get needed code

   bzr branch lp:~izidor/gtg/collaborative-gtg
   git clone https://github.com/liblarch/liblarch
   sudo pip install sleekxmpp 

3. Run it

   cd collaborative-gtg
   ./scripts/debug.sh

You can read detailed tutorial in the final report.

Known Issues

I would like to fix following issues in the following weeks:

• a GTG plugin for telepathy-gabble for PubSub

• test Collaborative GTG on various servers
• handle adding/removing people in the contact list, adding to/removing from project without restarting GTG
• figure out, why SleekXMPP takes so much time to shut down
• clean the code