Project Aspieware (Please stick)

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I propose a project to be made. That is: An Aspie Open-Source Community, we should call it 'Aspieware'

What is Aspieware?

Aspieware is a community that distributes programs and/or software which have been made by individuals with Asperger's Syndrome.

We need a primary programming language and a host of people for the project.

Also: money for storage and servers.

Do we use Linux, Microsoft or IBM servers?

Linux seems the cheapest at the moment, so why not throw a few more options out there.

Software and/or programs include:

Social Skills

Therapeutic games

Organizational or word processing

Maybe even OS's

(more added upon request)


The idea is to have AS be the the object for software distribution. We need good programs, staff, equiment etc.

I am doing my homework on researching this. I can't seem to find the right language for the project.
this may even become corporate depending on how well we do. and Wrong Planet may be able to support and/or sponsor the project.

Again: WE NEED APPLICANTS FOR THE PROJECT!

My programming knowledge is little, until I excel my knowledge: I will just have to 'manage' the project.
This is a great way to advertise for Wrong Planet, maybe even revenue.

Like I said, if this project becomes corporate, then we can have WP sponsor the corporation or project.

WE NEED APPLICANTS!

The idea is that the software is written by AS rather than NT people, because AS people understand AS people better than they do NT.

What if we consider getting "hello world" on the screen time for "Miller time"?

What if our English skills are so bad we can not write documention?

What if we see computers primary purpose to log into WP?

Oh I have been working off and on on a c (and the c++) program to detect human
skin in a photo. Originally my goal was to change the hair color in a photo on the command in linux:

$a.out -black hotblonde.jpg hotbrunette.jpg

Though my goal got less just to detect the skin and then run a despeckle filter
on the skin, Thus the skin looks smooth and the rest of the image does not loose
sharpness. I was not using a standard image tool kit and my ADHD kicked in because
I was re-inventing the wheel and could not figure how to adapt my non-standard way
of dealing with images with various free image tool kits.

So the state of the project is c++ code too bad show in public. A c program that requires 3 other application to get results and then its not perfect.

My nephews love for me to send them animated winks on Microsoft messenger.

I had the idea to make a custom one for them and WP but my reading seems
to suggets I can not do a transparent flash animation for MS's IM with my current
knowledge. Like I can generate simple images with povray then change a varible in them to say make a object move and then covert them to an avi or animated gif
but the method to take those output images (with transparent background and convert
them to flash *.swf may not exsist) Plus my brother-in-law read that MS must sign the
wink for it to be accepted by IM and they do not relase that to third parties?

Anyway I want to do a flash animation with a transparent background for IM and cant.

this is just a thought rather use an existing OS.
there are to many linux distros as it is
We could build our OS ground up
it may take years. But at least we'll get the bugs sorted out!
unlike M$.

It's called GNU.


Seriously, I imagine that a tremendous amount of the stuff is written by people with Asperger's.

For most applications you mentoned, I'd suggest using Java.
It's easy to get things done and it works everywhere.
If you're going to build an OS based on how Aspies think, don't write just another clone of every other operating system.
Check out the Anti-Mac Human Interface Guidelines for example.
That's a very interesting read when it comes to innovative user interfaces.
http://acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm

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I read Alex is updating WP to new "state of the art" forum software in the near future.

Got me thinking forum sites are not designed right. First most all the processiing
should be on the client side. You use a web browser pluging to login into a linux
file server you have an account on the box and 10 mb quota in your directory, A
simple shell is used that gives the user only very simple access. You use the same
login plugin to acces your web browser html editor and all html you send is compressed with gzip. So only *.htm.gz are on the linux central sever user directory.
Next all user use bitorent enable browser (like Oprea 9) to keep all users upto date
with 100% of the files on the central server. So the plugin would have to know file
dates ,checksums,names and scan for those. Basically all the features you wanted
would be done on the client side. Plus it could go peer to peer and store copies of
data that way if the central server went down. So people bit<hing they want the admins to do this are that could do it themselves since the code would be GPL.

Basically if some one knows important things that can not be done on the client side
such that a highly scalable, fast, reliable, user configurable forum system would not be possible let me know?

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Update talked to some one who knows alot. First the central server merely need to be
like an IM server to tell each user who is currentily on line and their IP address. So no
files would be on the central server. There has to be GPL /GNU project like this in the
works?

For all your audible needs, I'm here.
Therapeutic games, or any other software that requires music is within my field of expertise.
I used to program in Turbo Pascal at age 8, but thats 9 years ago so and DOS is obsolete.
Programming is not an issue for me, I deal with sound.
So if any music is needed, gimme a wink