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  1. Shared Whiteboard Using GTK Or QT?

    Ask · Graphics · · posted by Cliff · from the building-the-virtual-office dept. · 16 comments
    Matts writes: "I work from home with a number of people from the U.S. (I live in Scotland). One thing I miss about an office is the ability to discuss things over a whiteboard. So I've been looking all over the Net for some sort of shared whiteboard facility so that I can work very quickly with short bits of text and/or drawings. The text bit is very important there. Unfortunately the only products I've found are either old and require Motif and other huge libraries, commercial, or written in Java." Many of us communicate best when we can draw pictures, and being able to scribble and chart over the Net using such an app is an extraordinary idea, especially for those of us working in the "Virtual Office".

    "Other ones I've found are an add-on for mIRC (which I didn't even look at because I don't use Windows), and one called wb which appears to be part of the Mbone tools, which I couldn't find the source for and the binary for Linux wouldn't run. What I'm really after is something for either the Gnome or KDE toolkits, although straight GTK+ or QT would be just fine. Surely someone in the open source community has thought of this before - these were hot ideas when I was in university and everyone was building one!"

  2. Picking a Good Product Name

    Ask · News · · posted by Cliff · from the choosing-that-moniker dept. · 0 comments
    Matts asks: "I've recently embarked on a project - no details yet - but I'm wondering how to go about picking a good name. The key things that are important are: memorable, meaningful and availability of a domain name. I'm having real difficulty with that last criteria due to the vast dearth of good domain names. So I'm thinking of resorting to non-dictionary names or acronyms (following the example from Zope, Zend, PHP, etc). The question is - how do I pick a good product name?" We've recently touched on what you all think about the current crop of Open Source project names, now give us some ideas on how to choose good ones!