Projects

Dave Brondsema's open-source project involvement

Current-ish projects

Project	Role	Dates	Descr
DataDiff	Lead	Nov 2010 -	DataDiff is a library to provide human-readable diffs of python data structures.
FamilySite 2	Lead	Dec 2008	Semantic-web (FOAF) webapp for blog aggregation, address book printing, LDAP for mail clients, birthday iCal/Atom feeds. Could be used for families, churches, and other organizations where personal information is not already a priority (e.g. businesses)
Konfidi	Lead	2005 -	Konfidi is a system that uses PGP signatures to determine authenticity, and topical trust values to compute an inferred trust value. The first (and motivating) application is to filter email.
Misc. small projects		2008 -	Small projects, hosted on github

Past projects

Project	Role	Dates	Descr
On My Way	Lead	2009 - 2010	http://onmyway-app.com/ iPhone webapp to find locations along your current route
JsRdfEditor	Lead	Oct 2006	Generic all-JavaScript UI for creating RDF files, given a few OWL ontologies. Useful for creating FOAF files, etc
Lotus Notes to Outlook Calendar Converter	System Design	2006	Worked with Mark Rogers to develop this, at Cornerstone University
Bedework	Contributor	2006	Minor patches for this J2EE institutional calendar
Apache MyFaces	Contributor	2006	Minor patches; this should be a close match
Apache Forrest	Developer	Oct 2003 - 2005	Cocoon-based web documentation framework. My most significant contributions have been to the forrestbot and forrestbot web interface.
LXR	Developer	June 2004	Various fixes and improvements to dev (0.9) line.
BEEJ	Lead	2002	Generic expression editor library. Allows end-user to interface with a useful GUI that generates expressions (e.g. SQL) for use within the program.
Kal's Quest	Lead	2002 - 2004	CSX GameSIG project. Gauntlet-style game using SDL in C++.
Q...	Observer	2002	Port of Qt 3 to native Win32. I barely started a port and then stopped all my work on that port and agreed to let kde-cygwin's qt3-win32 project take over the "qtwin" SF project name
BookConnection	Developer	Aug 2003 - 2005	Website for students of Calvin Collegeto buy and sell textbooks. A CSX project.
JSVN	Contributor	Apr 2004	Minor patch.
OSUser	Contributor	Mar 2004	Contributed the Weblogic Providers and XML File Providers. OSUser is a java framework for user authentication, profiles, and groups. It can connect to any number of back end providers.

Ideas

Project	Descr
Phouper	Photo grouper. Organize (via folders or tags) photos into hierarchies based on the rate at which pictures were taken
ldap2sparql	I waited long enough, and someone else started an ldap2sparql project. A service that takes LDAP queries and answers them by executing a SPARQL query and returning the results. Would be used to have an LDAP interface to address book information stored in FOAF files.

Unfinished projects

Project	Role	Dates	Descr
Gentoo-Cygwin	Developer	Dec 2003	Bring Gentoo's portage system to work in Cygwin in Windows. Modify and create ebuilds that work in cygwin.
KnightSleuth	Lead	2002	Java standalone app to search Calvin College's people database. Uses BEEJ.
LANTS	Lead	Mar 2004	Local Area Network Tool Suite. Suite of scripts to manage a set of computers (e.g., a lab). Gentoo LANTS sometime later. A CSX project.
Calvin TV	Lead	2004	Use Perl and XMLTV to generate a database of Calvin College's TV channels. A PHP front end will read from the database. A CSX project.
JUmlErd	Lead	Oct 2003	ON HOLD indefinitely. Java app to create UML & ERD diagrams and generate SQL commands from database schema definitions. Was going to use this as the basis for my Java App Design HOWTO. KnightSleuth and/or MageDuel will fulfill this probably.
Multi-CMS	Lead	2003	ON HOLD indefinitely. Forrest is taking over. Still some needs not coverd by forrest, though. Multi-domain, multi-category, multi-lingual, modular website content management system. If I do start again, it'll be with JSF or Struts or Smarty
FamilySite	Lead	2003	Content management system targeted at family-oriented websites. Geneology, calendar, blogs, photo gallery. Significant rewrites will be next..
EnigWeb	Lead	Sep 2006	OpenPGP extension for Firefox. FirePGP was developed and is good.