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| Downloads: 91
| Submitted: Jul 21 2012
Updated: Nov 25 2012
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Description:
This project didn't really garner any response. I was hoping to look for at least one interested party. I know the majority of Linux users are definitely not farmers but to be fair it is one of the areas where open source software lacks.
As far as I know the version on the website should work just fine but there might be issues with urllib2.
Anyways, university started for me and visa issues meant I didn't get time to get up to a 1.0 release by the end of September. I spent a couple of hours on this today (25/11/2012) and re-factored some of the stuff as well as moving everything to a Kdev project.
The latest version I have lying around on my pc has quite a few improvements over the older versions but the software is still not feature complete nor comprehensive enough to be field useable.
At the moment, as far as I am concerned this project failed and I won't be developing on it further in the near future unless somebody shows a little interest in it in which case I'll jump back on it. I guess I tried to fill a niche which was just too small.
As a side note: I did manage to get 4 independent farms to trial the software and they quite liked the concept; however, they just preferred using a book to keep tabs on everything. New technology is just a little too tricky to get a grasp of when you don't have experience.
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This is a program designed to be an open source livestock (as in animals) management software targeting intensive-style farmers. Its being written in python and requires pyqt4 and pykde. This code is still pre-alpha, So not for production use! My end intention is to bundle this with a custom OpenSuse build that is free, works on old hardware and will provide farmers with suitable, affordable and powerful tools to help them farm more successfully.
Wiki set-up and online.
I am hoping to put out something substantial and actually usable by the end of September 2012. I have a lot on my plate but I am making a concerted effort to get this going.
To run it:
sh start.sh
FEEDBACK INVITED
Coming soon:
Printable reports with matplotlib graphs
Multiple database functionality
Splash screen
Branding (No clue how to be subtle but different)
Reminder and Weather in Today page
Networked database access
Settings dialog
Changelog:
0.3
Stock functionality introduced and fully working
Today Page added
Started code for a weather interface
Some code clean-up
Speed increases
Started code for a reminder system
Dialog renovations for more consistent experience
0.2
Cleaned up the UI, new "textless" design
UI scales correctly
Icons included
Print Functionality Added
Beginnings of the "Stock" tab
Code made OO
Fixed bugs
Stopped konsole spamming
0.1
Some basic functionality introduced
License: GPL
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