Okay, bear with me , this is probably a bit different than your usual post.
Brief background-
I'm going back to school to learn Computer Science with a focus on programming. This summer I'm hoping to be involved with the Google Summer of Code project where students get stipends in return for working on open source projects that they propose. My Daughter (10) is getting into amateur film making and theater. Looking at her notes as she tries to organize her rather simple films I see a god awful mess.
So I had the idea that maybe I could make an open source program to help with the organization of a film (as in what scenes can be shot when, with which actors, etc.). I'd be looking at taking an open source generic scheduling software and tweaking it to make it more applicable to the tasks in question but this raises 2 questions:
1) does such software already exist in sufficient quality so as to make the project redundant and unnecessary? AND
2) what features would make it more useful for the indie auteur?
I appreciate any help you can give me, and hopefully it may ultimately be helping you since if I can produce said program it will be free to use and hopefully help. That said I need feedback rather quickly as we have a very limited time to make our proposals and submit them for acceptance.
Cheers,
Jason
Brief background-
I'm going back to school to learn Computer Science with a focus on programming. This summer I'm hoping to be involved with the Google Summer of Code project where students get stipends in return for working on open source projects that they propose. My Daughter (10) is getting into amateur film making and theater. Looking at her notes as she tries to organize her rather simple films I see a god awful mess.
So I had the idea that maybe I could make an open source program to help with the organization of a film (as in what scenes can be shot when, with which actors, etc.). I'd be looking at taking an open source generic scheduling software and tweaking it to make it more applicable to the tasks in question but this raises 2 questions:
1) does such software already exist in sufficient quality so as to make the project redundant and unnecessary? AND
2) what features would make it more useful for the indie auteur?
I appreciate any help you can give me, and hopefully it may ultimately be helping you since if I can produce said program it will be free to use and hopefully help. That said I need feedback rather quickly as we have a very limited time to make our proposals and submit them for acceptance.
Cheers,
Jason