Re: Step up to the plate

2012-09-25 Thread Alex Glaros
Two volunteers have stepped forward but need a little energy from the 
community to get the project going. Could you give them a hand?

more details: http://gov-ideas.com/startup-and-employment-program.htm

contact info: http://gov-ideas.com/contact.htm

thanks!

Alex

On Thursday, September 6, 2012 3:18:37 PM UTC-7, Alex Glaros wrote:
>
> *Dear Django Group,
>
> Can you spare a few lines of code?
>
> Our nonprofit has a great idea to help the unemployed and spur innovation 
> at the same time.
>
> All we need is a simple app to let users register.  
>
> Can I get a community effort from this great Django community to write the 
> registration app? 
>
> I’ll can do the data modeling, just a few tables, you only need to write 
> the CRUD for it.  Easy Peasy
>
> It would be great to get a few volunteers to help innovation and the 
> unemployed.
>
> App will be open source.  Detailed info below.  
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alex
>
>
> --
>
> EMPLOYMENT AND INNOVATION PROGRAM
>
> The nonprofit Center for Government Interoperability (CFGIO) is seeking 
> programming assistance for an employment and innovation program.* 
>
> *BACKGROUND
>
> 1. There are thousands of startup ideas that cannot be implemented due to 
> software developer costs
> 2. There are millions of unemployed, many of whom could learn programming 
> from free sources
>
> BASIC CONCEPT - Employment Program managed by CFGIO
>
> 1. Unemployed novice programmers learn from free sources and start writing 
> beginner apps in one year, and write moderately well after 2 years. College 
> students majoring in computer science/MIS would be ready immediately.
> 2. Unemployed novice programmers offer services to startups with simple 
> app or web-design requirements.
> 3. CFGIO sets up centralized database to match learning programmers with 
> startups, and creates processes to help them work effectively together.
> 4. Startups offer equity or delayed transaction-based payments to learning 
> programmers.
> 5. For startups, the purpose is to give them an affordable prototype that 
> allows investors to evaluate and fund production version of their idea. For 
> students, it gives them real-world learning experience and qualifies them 
> to apply for entry-level programming positions, or to start their own 
> startup.
>
> BENEFITS
>
> 1. Backlog of programmer positions that need filling is addressed
> 2. Unemployed become employable with high-paying future-proof skills. They 
> also learn project management and SDLC.
> 3. Startup ideas are enabled
> 4. Nationwide innovation is expanded
>
> IMPLEMENTATION – Request assistance from crowdsourced volunteers to:
>
> 1. Design curriculum – basically identify Youtube and other free training 
> materials (which now days are great) for each programming language
> 2. Mentor students
> 3. Create environment where students learn from each other
> 4. Design certification process
> 5. Design processes to enhance programmer/startup collaboration
>
> RESOURCES
>
> 1. Programming environments are cheap or free: 
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/billing and 
> https://openshift.redhat.com/app/
> 2. Programming forums already provide assistance to newbies
>
> Any ideas or comments would be greatly appreciated,
>
> Alex Glaros
> Center for Government Interoperability
> www.gov-ideas.com
> Contact: http://gov-ideas.com/contact.htm* 
>

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Step up to the plate

2012-09-06 Thread Alex Glaros
*Dear Django Group,

Can you spare a few lines of code?

Our nonprofit has a great idea to help the unemployed and spur innovation 
at the same time.

All we need is a simple app to let users register.  

Can I get a community effort from this great Django community to write the 
registration app? 

I’ll can do the data modeling, just a few tables, you only need to write 
the CRUD for it.  Easy Peasy

It would be great to get a few volunteers to help innovation and the 
unemployed.

App will be open source.  Detailed info below.  

Thanks!

Alex

--

EMPLOYMENT AND INNOVATION PROGRAM

The nonprofit Center for Government Interoperability (CFGIO) is seeking 
programming assistance for an employment and innovation program.* 

*BACKGROUND

1. There are thousands of startup ideas that cannot be implemented due to 
software developer costs
2. There are millions of unemployed, many of whom could learn programming 
from free sources

BASIC CONCEPT - Employment Program managed by CFGIO

1. Unemployed novice programmers learn from free sources and start writing 
beginner apps in one year, and write moderately well after 2 years. College 
students majoring in computer science/MIS would be ready immediately.
2. Unemployed novice programmers offer services to startups with simple app 
or web-design requirements.
3. CFGIO sets up centralized database to match learning programmers with 
startups, and creates processes to help them work effectively together.
4. Startups offer equity or delayed transaction-based payments to learning 
programmers.
5. For startups, the purpose is to give them an affordable prototype that 
allows investors to evaluate and fund production version of their idea. For 
students, it gives them real-world learning experience and qualifies them 
to apply for entry-level programming positions, or to start their own 
startup.

BENEFITS

1. Backlog of programmer positions that need filling is addressed
2. Unemployed become employable with high-paying future-proof skills. They 
also learn project management and SDLC.
3. Startup ideas are enabled
4. Nationwide innovation is expanded

IMPLEMENTATION – Request assistance from crowdsourced volunteers to:

1. Design curriculum – basically identify Youtube and other free training 
materials (which now days are great) for each programming language
2. Mentor students
3. Create environment where students learn from each other
4. Design certification process
5. Design processes to enhance programmer/startup collaboration

RESOURCES

1. Programming environments are cheap or free: 
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/billing and 
https://openshift.redhat.com/app/
2. Programming forums already provide assistance to newbies

Any ideas or comments would be greatly appreciated,

Alex Glaros
Center for Government Interoperability
www.gov-ideas.com
Contact: http://gov-ideas.com/contact.htm* 

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Does anyone know how to access the Protege Ontology Editor?

2012-09-05 Thread Alex Glaros
Anyone know how to access the Protege Ontology Editor from Django? 

http://protege.stanford.edu/<http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fprotege%2Estanford%2Eedu%2F=bs2P&_t=tracking_anet>

Anyone with experience using it?

Thanks,

Alex Glaros 

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library function to allow users to put collections of things into other collections?

2012-08-19 Thread Alex Glaros


Is there any already written library function to allow users to put 
collections of things into other collections?

Similar to how Google docs lets users create different docs, then group 
them within a collection, but also lets users drag collections into other 
collections.

I’d like to do that with user-created government agency name categories.  

For example, I let user create some agency names: Air Force, Marines, Navy, 
Army.  Then I let them create an umbrella collection called “Pentagon”, and 
let users drag Air Force, Marines, Navy, etc. into the umbrella collection.

What is complicating this, is that unlike the Google docs example where a 
doc is a discrete single object, user may discover smaller sub-sets of 
Army, and wish to categorize those within the Army name, which is not yet a 
collection.

Other example: user would like to add a new collection “Office of the 
President” and put OMB and Pentagon under that as equals.

Each user should be able to create their own collections so that multiple 
government department name categories exist.  This is so that they can call 
their own categories that may be of a different scope than what other users 
need.

What would the data model look like for this?

I’m hoping someone else has worked on this problem, probably not with 
government agency names, but perhaps the same principle with other objects.

Thanks!

Alex Glaros

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Re: how to display development server page

2012-03-17 Thread Alex Glaros
thanks sayakurt

I'm on my PC at home, logged onto a SSH session on the host Linux
server.  So I'm typing the command on the server.

Thanks,

Alex Glaros

On Mar 17, 12:53 am, Iqbal Hasnan <sayak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to help you as much as I can, but lets make the question more
> clear first.
>
> so, you have a linux server? and run "python manage.py runserver" command
> on your computer terminal or ssh from you server?
>
> -sayakurt
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Alex Glaros <alexgla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Newbie trying to run Django for the first time.
>
> > I'm using a hosted Linux server; I run python manage.py runserver, and
> > get:
>
> > Validating models...
>
> > 0 errors found
> > Django version 1.3.1, using settings 'alexSite.settings'
> > Development server is running athttp://127.0.0.1:8000/
> > Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
>
> > But my browser doesn't see anything athttp://127.0.0.1:8000/
>
> > Any hints?  Where is the page, on my PC or the hosted server?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Alex Glaros
>
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Re: how to display development server page

2012-03-16 Thread Alex Glaros
Thanks Daniel,

Does that mean I have to copy python, Django, and Postgres to my PC to
create the development environment?

much appreciated,

Alex Glaros

On Mar 16, 10:32 pm, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote:
> On Friday, 16 March 2012 22:23:43 UTC-7, Alex Glaros wrote:
>
> > Newbie trying to run Django for the first time.
>
> > I'm using a hosted Linux server; I run python manage.py runserver, and
> > get:
>
> > Validating models...
>
> > 0 errors found
> > Django version 1.3.1, using settings 'alexSite.settings'
> > Development server is running athttp://127.0.0.1:8000/
> > Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
>
> > But my browser doesn't see anything athttp://127.0.0.1:8000/
>
> > Any hints?  Where is the page, on my PC or the hosted server?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Alex Glaros
>
> The development server isn't meant to be run on a host. It's meant to be
> run on your development machine.
>
> (You can make this work, but your life will be simpler if you install and
> run Django locally when in development).
> --
> DR.

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how to display development server page

2012-03-16 Thread Alex Glaros
Newbie trying to run Django for the first time.

I'm using a hosted Linux server; I run python manage.py runserver, and
get:

Validating models...

0 errors found
Django version 1.3.1, using settings 'alexSite.settings'
Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.

But my browser doesn't see anything at http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Any hints?  Where is the page, on my PC or the hosted server?

Thanks,

Alex Glaros

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What directory do I install Django on Linux server

2012-03-14 Thread Alex Glaros
Does it make any difference what directory I download and unzip Django
tarball on a Linux server?

Should it be nside the Python directory?

When I install, does it find its correct directory by itself?

thanks,

Alex Glaros

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