[Savannah-register-public] [task #3780] Submission of GIM

[Mark Roth]

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                 Summary: Submission of GIM
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: mroth
            Submitted on: Thu 02/24/2005 at 11:36
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                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
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                 Privacy: Public
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             Open/Closed: Open
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Site Admin. Approval/Edition URL:
 <https://savannah.nongnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=7357>


###### ORIGINAL SUBMISSION DETAILS ######

System Group Name:
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  gim


Full Name:
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  GIM
  

Type:
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  non-GNU


License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later


Other License: 
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Description:
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  GIM - a data back-end designed with modularity in mind



The GIM community project is the brainchild of D Smith and has been advancing
by a module I (Mark Roth) have been working on.



A long winded explanation can be found here:

http://www.gidforums.com/t-4093.html



and some of the initial attempts are located here:

http://www.dbcservices.com/cgi-bin/gim/index



The current state (source only) can be found here:

http://www.gidforums.com/t-4897.html



Our intent is to provide data handling with a well documented interface for
use by a client program so that no matter what is used for the GUI the
interface will be the same and therefore make it relatively easy to provide a
graphical GUI, a console GUI etc etc without having to make many changes. 
Dsmith (at GIDForums) created a console version of our current module and I
(cable_guy_67) have created the beginnings of an FLTK based GUI.  They both
provide nearly the same functionality and use the same interface but service
two distinctly different audiences.  Our intent is to live under a GPL
licencing as described here:

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html



If you have any additional questions ask away. ;)


Other Software Required:
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  FLTK - The Fast Light Tool Kit home: http://www.fltk.org/



This is released under the LGPL and falls well within our requirements.



Currently that dependency is only for the current working module.  GIM itself
has no such dependencies.


Other Comments:
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  We are just looking for a place to help the two currently active developers
(myself and dsmith) get our project off the ground and try to generate some
interest.  It is more a learning project than anything else.

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