[Owncloud] GANTT Charts as owncloud app? A GSoC project?

[Klaas Freitag]

On 01.03.2012 20:18, Pascal Mages wrote:
Hi Pascal,

> I would like to propose an idea which could maybe be turned into GSoC
> project. In a collaboration project we will probably use owncloud. But
> one piece is still missing. We need a way to display/generate GANTT
> charts and doing thant in owncloud would be the most natural thing.
> In short: A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart, developed by Henry
> Gantt, that illustrates a project schedule [1].

>
> There is a free GANTT chart tool based on Javascript, CSS and HTML which
> could provide a startig point [2] for an owncloud app.
Sure, that would be a great addition.

Where does the input for the GANTT diagrams come from? I don't think it 
makes so much sense to just display them without helping to generate 
them. How are you planning to do that?

For example there is the project "Taskjuggler" [4]. Its based on text 
files specifying tasks, resources and much more. ownCloud integration 
could look like this: Whenever you update a taskjuggler file on the 
ownCloud, in the background the taskjuggler task is started to schedule 
everything and the result of that is shown in ownCloud. Nice app :-)

regards,

Klaas

[4] http://www.taskjuggler.org
>
> In the bug tracker there is actually a feature request [3].
> Who else is interested in such an app and would help to make it happen?
> As I'm not a developper I can't really judge how much work this would
> mean and if it would be suitable for a GSoC project. But I would be
> happy to provide my GANTT and end user knowlegde.
>
> Anyone joining in?
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart
> [2] http://jsgantt.com/
> [3] http://bugs.owncloud.org/thebuggenie/owncloud/issues/oc-48