[Savannah-hackers] Submission of FreeLCD

[Jeroen van den Berg]

Hello,

a while ago I tried to register a project with the name "FreeLCD". It
seems that this name is still reserved, so I can't register my project
with Savannah through the web interface. I hope I can also apply by email;


Project name : FreeLCD
System name  : freelcd
License      : GPL
Tarball      : http://hippie.nu/~unicorn/freelcd-0.1.0.tar.gz (very alpha)
Depends on   : Expat (MIT), Freetype 2.x (GPL), ncurses (GPL)

Description:

FreeLCD is a collection of applications for displaying information on an
LCD or VFD. It supports graphical and character-oriented displays, and
most of the common widths and heights.

Data and layout information is provided by clients, in a
device-independent format. The server tries to render this as good as
possible to the connected device. Information is scheduled for display
according to rate of change (dynamic content is shown more often) and
importance (alerts show more and longer).

Possible uses:
- Server stats (cpu load, users, uptime, up/download, temperature)
- Alerts (new email, buddy online, build finished)
- Information from online sources (news headlines, dynamic TV guide)

Planned features:
- Unicode
- Good l10n support
- Truetype text rendering to graphical displays
- Support for more than one connected device

I would also like FreeLCD to become part of the GNU Project.



Thank you for your time,
Jeroen van den Berg