Re: [Gzz] Agora next thursday inbct seminar presentations

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:21:32AM +0200, Asko Soukka wrote:
> > Having a presentation there is so vital to the group that I'm making
> > giving one a requirement for continued employment with the group. 
> > I expect to get an abstract of what you want to say (for discussing and
> > aligning with the other presentations and the overall message) posted
> > on this list today. 
> 
> I guess, that navidoc is less important to the project's 
> oweners/financiers, but it's the only project I know enough to talk about 
> it :) So, if we'll have enough time, I could try to present it.

We will. Like antont said, it may have more importance than we think...

> - navidoc as byproduct of our project
>   + components/features added, when needed
>   + built primarly for this project, currently 
>     being moved to independent project, "easily"
>     used also elsewhere
>   + independent from the other project
>   + paper submitted to HT03
> - lightweight freesoftware tools/toolchains to 
>   support our documentation (and therefore development)
>   + focusing to navidoc itself
>     - lexical UML written within other documentation (ReST)
>     - linking different documentations using UML diagrams
>     - himalia
>   + pegboard could be mentioned
>  (+ out version of docutils latex writer)
>  (+ also homepage tools, i.e. navbar, will be part of navidoc)

Hmm... it might actually be really good to combine this with some mention
of our testing methods: the automated tests in .test files.

> Should we have those abstracts soon for advertisement?

Yes.

> "Navidoc is a collection of lightweight tools built to support our 
> project's documentation. Navidoc provides readily-authored language to
> describe UML diagrams lexically within design documentation. 

This is not the most important point, I think.

> Navidoc could 

could = voisi -- ???

> also expand diagrams to work as multi-ended links, to 
> hypertextually connect design documentation to Javadoc generated 
> documentation. The example of Navidoc enhanced documentation could be 
> found at http://himalia.it.jyu.fi/gzzdoc/";

Great!

        Tuomas