Have you looked at e.g. Eclipse as an IDE? It has a zillion plugins, might work for the editing you need. On 05/17/2016 11:37 PM, David Schwartz wrote: > Well, the graphical editor is really a facade needed to do further work. > I’m not aware of any that have the features I need to proceed, so the > first task is to adapt or build an editor that does what I need. Then > proceed from there. > > I’m after something that gets into graphical software design. That is, > GUI-based software design. Nothing like I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a > bunch of stuff. > > I have some ideas that I’d like to see fleshed-out that could result in > some interesting snapshot projects along the way. > > Maybe it’s something a couple of college students who need a summer > project could help with? > > (I hesitate to say “interns”, but … whatever works. Except I can’t pay > them anything.) > > -David Schwartz > > On May 17, 2016, at 8:55 PM, Thomas Cameron > wrote: > > On 05/17/2016 06:38 PM, David Schwartz wrote: > > Hey, guys, I have a very general question > > There’s an idea I’ve had for quite a while, and was chatting > with someone recently who suggested I set up an open-source kind > of project for it. > > The problem is, I don’t really want to do the programming on it. > I want to be the architect and direct some other developers. > > So what’s the best way to find a couple of people who’d like to > work on an app part-time? > > Honetsly, I don’t care what it’s implemented in initially; a > browser app is fine, but it needs to read and write to a file > system (local and/or cloud-based). > > Right now I’m just looking to build a proof-of-concept model and > extend it one step at a time. > > The main architecture is an interactive graphical editor roughly > similar to Visio, but then it goes off into some interesting > directoins. > > Any ideas? > > I've actually toyed with an idea like this for a while. I have an > idea for a project, but my problem is that I am not qualified to > code it. I'm just not a very good programmer at all, much more a > sysadmin type. > > The only way I can really think to get something like this going is > to maybe pay for the first version of development, like a cheap > offshore developer in Russia or India, then make it open source. If > it's a good idea, if there's enough interest in it, if there's > enough value in it, you'll attract contributors. It's a heck of a > lot easier for folks to look at what you've got and tell you how to > make it better than to start with a clean sheet of paper. See > https://medium.com/@ienjoy/mcdonalds-theory-9216e1c9da7d#.5b83cmmoh > > > Just a thought. > > Thomas --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list – PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To > subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss