Your statement amounts to saying that Computer Science has nothing to do with reality, the mind, or humanity. This is clearly not the case.
Every human discipline has philosophical underpinnings, whether its practitioners understand them or not. Those who can identify their own presuppositions and who are familiar with the limitations of their methodology can be much more effective than those who simply follow convention without understanding why they do so.
...and I think there will be sufficient interest in Chandler among people who don't to make the project successful.
Many people in the organization I work for use a program called Goldmine to help them maintain contact with sizable networks of people. Goldmine is one of a suprisingly small number of programs that provide person-centric organization of information. In one view, you can see a person's contact information plus all the phone calls, appointments and email communication with that person. Once you've used a system like this, a plain-old PIM (in which email, contact info, and appointments are all stored separately) just won't cut it.
Unfortunately, Goldmine is Windows-only. We've replaced almost all of our other Windows apps with ones that run in Linux, but at the moment there is no viable Goldmine replacement. Consequently, we're watching Chandler with eagerness.
I am doing an internship this summer for DiscipleMakers, a Christian campus ministry organization. We are working on a software package, to be released under the GPL, which will perform some of the most critical functions in the administration of any non-profit organization. The core function is keeping track of the donations which support the organization, but we hope to expand to include more contact management capability as well as other features useful in a non-profit setting. The vision is to provide free software which runs on inexpensive hardware to organizations which otherwise might adopt closed, proprietary solutions costing substantially more money.
Personally, I've found this work quite fulfilling because I can exercise my coding skills while furthering a goal I truly believe in. If anyone else is interested, check out the Open Source link on our homepage for more about the project. We're in early development now but we should have an alpha release available for download in August. We will have our office running this system by the end of the summer!
It's interesting which concerns over gender roles receive attention and which don't. Everyone sees computers as the hot field right now, not just because the field is lucrative but because it's symbolic of the leading edge of societal progress. At the same time, the fact that women gravitate (for whatever reason) to different jobs than men do is nothing new. No one talks about the fact that very few women become auto mechanics, but I would venture to guess that the same causes underlie both cases.
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Your statement amounts to saying that Computer Science has nothing to do with reality, the mind, or humanity. This is clearly not the case.
Every human discipline has philosophical underpinnings, whether its practitioners understand them or not. Those who can identify their own presuppositions and who are familiar with the limitations of their methodology can be much more effective than those who simply follow convention without understanding why they do so.
...and I think there will be sufficient interest in Chandler among people who don't to make the project successful.
Many people in the organization I work for use a program called Goldmine to help them maintain contact with sizable networks of people. Goldmine is one of a suprisingly small number of programs that provide person-centric organization of information. In one view, you can see a person's contact information plus all the phone calls, appointments and email communication with that person. Once you've used a system like this, a plain-old PIM (in which email, contact info, and appointments are all stored separately) just won't cut it.
Unfortunately, Goldmine is Windows-only. We've replaced almost all of our other Windows apps with ones that run in Linux, but at the moment there is no viable Goldmine replacement. Consequently, we're watching Chandler with eagerness.
Personally, I've found this work quite fulfilling because I can exercise my coding skills while furthering a goal I truly believe in. If anyone else is interested, check out the Open Source link on our homepage for more about the project. We're in early development now but we should have an alpha release available for download in August. We will have our office running this system by the end of the summer!
It's interesting which concerns over gender roles receive attention and which don't. Everyone sees computers as the hot field right now, not just because the field is lucrative but because it's symbolic of the leading edge of societal progress. At the same time, the fact that women gravitate (for whatever reason) to different jobs than men do is nothing new. No one talks about the fact that very few women become auto mechanics, but I would venture to guess that the same causes underlie both cases.