list.it project launched on Google Code
We just completed the first phase of moving list.it to being its own independent open source project by moving the codebase to a project called “list-it” on Google Code. The entire team has switched over to using this repository for our main development, and so you will see our changes as they happen. (We have no affiliation with Google; we just found their repository service to be mildly more modern than Sourceforge’s).
Although this is personally the first major open source project I’ve helped to launch, we are following the advice of our friends with the Simile Project, in particular recent Haystack alumnus David Hyunh who led the creation of the Simile Widgets google code project early last year. And, of course, we live in the birthplace of the Free Software Foundation so we have a lot of people to lean on. But we welcome comments; we’re newbies to this and want your input!
Over the next few days, you will see our project page slowly take shape; we’re working to rapidly create some tutorials and documentation both for end-users and developers. We’re going to fork multiple branches of our client to support more experimental development and listit extensions. And finally we will populate our “Issues” page with our “Want.It” plans for features we are currently working towards for future list.it releases.
We are hoping that people will find our project even more useful, and welcome those interested to take part in it’s development. We need your help!
Hello, I am a technology columnist for the The Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Miss. I ran across your list.it application and promptly downloaded it for try. I’ve found it be extremely useful for all those little notes and bits of information I need to keep track of in the course of a work day.
I am also the Assistant Managing Editor/Digital for my newspaper and I oversee the creation and posting of content of our Web site. Again, list.it is becoming a useful tool to help organize what would otherwise be “information overload.”
The only suggestion I have at the moment is to have it accessible by one key, such as a user defined F key for even quicker access. But I love the lightness of the application.
Keep up the good work.
Earnest
Hihi,
I am running Leopard .6 on a 3 year old Intel PB Pro and using FFox 3. I can’t get beyond the first page your email sent me to, and listit doesn’t appear in my sidebar.
If you can help, great. If you can’t, I understand.
thx either way,
Beth Gibson