Project Purple is a group of people who write free software and we've created this site essentially as a means of distributing our software. Some of Project Purple's work includes repackaging rpms or making rpms of software which hasn't been packaged before.
There are several advantages of coding with "Project Purple"
All of these should lead to better software. Well that's the idea. I just think it's quite cool to let other people look at your code before you release it.
Project Purple is therefore very much tied up in the Open Source idea of development. Probably since our founding member (Jonathan McDowell) has been using linux for some time now as have most of us.
So far the members of Project Purple are:
Here is a list of software that has been written or packaged for Project Purple
| Software | Description | Platform | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| AutoDNS | Email configuration of secondary DNS | Perl | Jonathan McDowell |
| Biomorphs | Evolve your own tree | Java | Toby Jaffey |
| Cat | DIR replacement | DOS | Jonathan McDowell |
| CD Changer | patch for autofs | Linux | Toby Jaffey |
| dgb | A guestbook CGI | Perl | Dominic Hargreaves |
| Do this | A simple customisable panel | Linux (GTK) | Toby Jaffey |
| Drawtool | Vector graphics created with scripts or the mouse, viewable as Postscript, bitmaps and in X. Includes a sample logo interpreter. | Linux (GTK) | Toby Jaffey |
| Droplet | Drag and click to drop ripple patterns onto a canvas. | Linux (GTK) | Toby Jaffey |
| DSG | Disk Space Guage | DOS | Jonathan McDowell |
| Fireworks | A mini fireworks display in ncurses | Linux | Toby Jaffey |
| gg | A graphical guestbook for the web | Java and PHP3 | Toby Jaffey |
| Floating Head | Displays a floating head around the screen. | Linux | Toby Jaffey |
| Hex | A Puzzle Bobble clone. | Linux (GTK) | Toby Jaffey |
| Htag.pl | Tagline and sig adder based on Huggietag | Perl | Simon Huggins |
| Huggietag | Tagline and sig adder | UNIX (DOS with a little work) | Simon Huggins |
| KeybUK | keyb uk replacement (about 256 bytes) | DOS | Jonathan McDowell |
| mediadbs | A digital media database system | Perl/php | Dominic Hargreaves |
| Missile | A Missile Command clone. | Linux (GTK) | Toby Jaffey |
| Muse | A complete web based mp3 streaming system for icecast. | Unix, Perl and PHP3 | Toby Jaffey |
| NCPicView | NCurses Picture Viewer | Linux | Toby Jaffey |
| NetStats | JAM stats generator | DOS | Jonathan McDowell |
| Nibbles | A Nibbles in NCurses clone. | Linux | Toby Jaffey |
| onak | OpenPGP keyserver. | Unix | Jonathan McDowell |
| PackPrint | Pretty ethernet packet printer. | Linux | Mike Ricketts |
| pppctl | A suite of programs for managing a PPP connection. | UNIX | Jonathan McDowell |
| Quick Button | Graphical program launcher | Linux (GTK) | Toby Jaffey |
| SendIP | Command line tool to allow sending arbitrary IP packets. | Linux/*BSD | Mike Ricketts |
| sersniff | A program for tunneling/sniffing between 2 serial ports. | UNIX | Jonathan McDowell |
| sortdu | Small perl script to sort du -sh output | Linux (well UNIX + perl) | Simon Huggins |
| Squidge | Client/Server "game" - ability for AI clients | Linux | Toby Jaffey |
| Ski | Console skiing game | Linux | Toby Jaffey |
| seatris | A curses based tetris clone | Unix | Jonathan McDowell |
| tape2mp3 | Program for splitting large wav files into tracks | Anything with libsndfile (tested on GNU/Linux) | Toby Jaffey |
| vmlm | Mailing List Manager. | Anything with Ruby/TMail | Jonathan McDowell |
Some of these programs have been packaged for Debian. There is an apt-gettable archive which can be accessed by adding:
deb http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/files/debian /to your sources.list file. These packages are all built against the stable distribution (currently Potato). At the moment there are only a few packages there - if you want something in particular done then email us.
We are always open to suggestions. Contact us at projectpurple@earth.li
As well as improvements in our current software, here is a list of potential projects which may or may not happen in the future:
| Idea | Author | |
|---|---|---|
| Addressbook in XML | David is going to write an addressbook based around XMLscript. | David Ball |
| Anemometer | Toby plans to create a low cost scientific instrument that can be used by individuals or in schools. | Toby Jaffey |
| ParcelTape | Jonathan is in the process of writing a Fidonet mail tosser for Linux. | Jonathan McDowell |
| Fetchmail hack | I am hoping to write a clean hack to fetchmail which will allow people over slow links like modems to select which messages they download according to rules specified in an rc file. | Simon Huggins |
| Logo interpreter | Toby is going to fix his logo interpreter for drawtool. | Toby Jaffey |
Last updated: Wed Mar 26 21:50:50 GMT 2003