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 <thomas.cameron@camerontech.com> 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.

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