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layout: post
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status: publish
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published: true
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title: First alpha of the Ivolution Project is out !
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author: Julien Lengrand-Lambert
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author_login: jlengrand
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author_email: julien@lengrand.fr
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author_url: http://www.lengrand.fr
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wordpress_id: 756
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wordpress_url: http://www.lengrand.fr/?p=756
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date: 2012-09-25 08:09:54.000000000 +02:00
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categories:
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- Python
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- Ivolution
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tags:
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- github
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- development
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- face recognition
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- timelapse
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- everyday
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- wxpython
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comments: []
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---
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It's been two weeks I haven't blogged about Ivolution. . . and there's a good reason for that:
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<a title="website" href="http://jlengrand.github.com/Ivolution" target="_blank"><strong>The first alpha of the project is out . . . </strong>and I definitely need some alpha testers !</a>
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The software is fully free and open-source, and <a title="downloads" href="http://jlengrand.github.com/Ivolution/pages/Downloads.html"><strong>available for both Linux and Windows</strong></a> environments. I even have some <a title="samples" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ivolutioner/files/other%20downloads/Ivolution_samples.zip/download">samples</a> for you to test, so why not give it a try ?!
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I completely focused those two last weeks on shipping the first version of the product. So here is a short list of what I have done :
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<ul>
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<li>
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<h2>Write an illustrated user's documentation</h2>
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</li>
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</ul>
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Commenting the code is one thing, but it doesn't really help the end user. I have thus created a<a title="manual" href="http://jlengrand.github.com/Ivolution/pages/Ivolution.html" target="_blank"> user's manual</a>, full of images to be sure that people are not lost when they start using Ivolution. I tried to describe features in the simplest possible way, and even created some <a title="example" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBnsqYn9Vgg&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">example videos</a>.
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Additionally, it helped me find some new bugs (mostly typos) that I corrected.
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<h2></h2>
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<div>
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<li>
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<h2>Ship a project website.</h2>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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A project definitely needs a website so that people can find it. I have tried to create <a title="ivolution website" href="http://jlengrand.github.com/Ivolution/pages/Ivolution.html" target="_blank"><strong>the website</strong></a> as light as possible, and remove any unnecessary information.
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The website contains the online version of the documentation, together with the executables, the FAQ and so on.
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Here is the set of tools I have chosen for the website :
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<ul>
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<li><a title="github pages" href="http://pages.github.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Github pages</strong></a>, to simply host the project. As a bonus It is also versioned, and any new push is automagically shipped :)</li>
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<li><a title="sourceforge" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ivolutioner/?source=directory" target="_blank"><strong>Sourceforge</strong> </a>(do I really need to present it? ). It allows me to host all the archives and executables, for free.</li>
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<li><a title="Pelican" href="http://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>Pelican</strong></a>. The little brother or <a title="octopress" href="http://octopress.org/" target="_blank">Octopress</a>, but in Python. I wanted something really simple for the website (understand static); and Pelican allowed me to keep using Python.</li>
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</ul>
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It has a lot of really useful plugins (analytics, themes). . . I'll definitely use it again for my next projects.
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<div>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<h2>Get users on rails !</h2>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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I want users to start using the software as fast as possible.
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In this way, there is a <a title="1 minute tutorial" href="http://jlengrand.github.com/Ivolution/pages/OneMinuteTutorial.html" target="_blank">1 minute tutorial</a> for Windows users; and a <a title="install ubuntu" href="http://jlengrand.github.com/Ivolution/pages/Installation.html" target="_blank">three steps only installation</a> for Ubunteros ! I also compiled a set of samples so that you can generate your first movie in seconds.
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The creation of the website has been quite long, but also really light compared to what I expected.<strong> <a title="pelican" href="http://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/index.html" target="_blank">Pelican</a> really helped me being productive</strong> while having a set of nice themes to use. Being a complete newbie in web development,<strong> I am thankful for that</strong> !
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I found on the other hand<strong> Sourceforge surprisingly complex</strong> compared to what I expected. The platform definitely has tons of capabilities, but I had to fight my way through the menus to do what I wanted to.
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<strong>That's all folks!</strong>
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Now that the website is out, <strong>I need to find some testers</strong> for the product.
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My next week objective for the project is to post messages on the internet about the Ivolution project. It is still really young and need more work; but I'm sure It can help some people !
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And don't forget, if you want to be part of it;<a title="fork me" href="http://github.com/jlengrand/Ivolution" target="_blank"> feel free to join me on the project</a> !
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