Hello GSoC Mentors,
As you are participating to Google Summer of Code, I'm wondering if you could consider using Flower Dev Center [1] while working with students.
Flower Dev Center is an online platform for UML modeling diagramming, with a strong focus on code synchronization, integration with dev tools (Git, SVN, etc) and real time collaboration on diagrams (and a little bit on code as well).
We think Flower Dev Center can be helpful for both: mentors and students during Google Summer of Code. We have created an article on this topic (i.e. Flower Dev Center + GSoC): [2], [3].
If you have a couple of spare minutes, could you tell us if you would like to use Flower Dev Center? And/or raise topics that you think are important (based on previous GSoC participations) to be supported by Flower Dev Center?
REMARK1: Right now, Flower Dev Center is closed source and offered for free to open-source projects. Starting with next version we'll begin to open its API and source code, so that anyone could write extension plugins, etc.
REMARK2: The next version of Flower Dev Center, the 2.0.0 planned for June/July 2013, has major new features, that we did not demonstrate yet and that will improve even more the collaboration between developers.
REMARK3: Flower Dev Center doesn't currently support PHP programming language. But if you are interested in using Flower Dev Center, we'll prioritize it's implementation and we'll work hard to do it ASAP, with Flower Dev Center 2.0.0.
REMARK4: Flower Dev Center will support programming languages that are not object oriented, starting with 2.0.0
Thank you in advance!
Best regards, Mircea @ The Flower Platform Team.
[1] - Flower Dev Center web site - http://www.flower-platform.com [2] - Video “Flower Dev Center + Google Summer of Code” - http://learn-discuss.flower-platform.com/flower_dev_center/videos/flower_dev... [3] - Text version with same content as the above video - http://learn-discuss.flower-platform.com/flower_dev_center/tutorials/flower_...
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Flower Platform Team flower_platform_team@flower-platform.com wrote:
REMARK1: Right now, Flower Dev Center is closed source and offered for free to open-source projects. Starting with next version we'll begin to open its API and source code, so that anyone could write extension plugins, etc.
This pretty much makes the whole proposal a non-starter. Perhaps we could look at it later once it's released under an OSI-approved license[0].
-Chad
Thank you Chad for your feedback!
Perhaps we could look at it later once
I understand. We'll do so!
Best regards, Cristian @ The Flower Platform Team.
On 16.05.2013 12:39, Chad wrote:
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Flower Platform Team flower_platform_team@flower-platform.com wrote:
REMARK1: Right now, Flower Dev Center is closed source and offered for free to open-source projects. Starting with next version we'll begin to open its API and source code, so that anyone could write extension plugins, etc.
This pretty much makes the whole proposal a non-starter. Perhaps we could look at it later once it's released under an OSI-approved license[0].
-Chad
[0] http://opensource.org/licenses
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On 16/05/13 20:39, Chad wrote:
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Flower Platform Team flower_platform_team@flower-platform.com wrote:
REMARK1: Right now, Flower Dev Center is closed source and offered for free to open-source projects. Starting with next version we'll begin to open its API and source code, so that anyone could write extension plugins, etc.
This pretty much makes the whole proposal a non-starter. Perhaps we could look at it later once it's released under an OSI-approved license[0].
Right. We'd never use any closed-source SaaS, like Google Docs, Google Talk, GitHub, Watchmouse or BrowserStack.
Does anyone here use UML?
-- Tim Starling
On 05/16/2013 07:43 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
Right. We'd never use any closed-source SaaS, like Google Docs, Google Talk, GitHub, Watchmouse or BrowserStack.
Does anyone here use UML?
I have used UML in the past. I wasn't planning on using it for GSOC. But should my students get accepted, there's still a possibility we'd decide to do so.
That said, I've used several FOSS UML tools successfully, and I see new ones exist now. There's no reason for me to use a proprietary tool for something like this.
Matt Flaschen
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