[Wxruby-users] [Fwd: Weft - a free open-source QDA tool]

[Nick]

Awesome! Always good to see new projects take shape!

Nick

alex fenton wrote:

> Hi
>
> Just released a first version of the WxRuby project I've been working 
> on. Firstly, I wanted to say thanks to everyone on this list who's 
> helped at various points over the past year - every time I ran into a 
> problem someone jumped in with advice.
>
> A very brief explanation of the app - I'm a sociologist/anthropologist 
> by trade, and the app is intended for use in social research projects 
> where you have a body of text documents to analyse, for example 
> transcripts of interviews. The app helps in developing an analysis by 
> letting you mark up sections of text in different documents as 
> relating to a common theme or topic.
>
> Anyway, I guess it's of more interest to this group as an example of a 
> good-sized app written using WxRuby. There's probably a few thousand 
> lines of Ruby in there. The cross-platform aspect isn't perfect yet, 
> as I don't have a Linux box with a monitor to test on (I do have one - 
> anyway I can view its desktop on my Windows machine? Like VNC in 
> reverse?).
>
> The main page is at
>
> http://www.pressure.to/qda/
>
> This has a windows installler for the app; source code is also 
> available for download - follow the link for "not windows".
>
> Cheers
> alex
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Weft - a free open-source QDA tool
> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:54:57 +0000
> From: alex fenton <alex at PRESSURE.TO>
> Reply-To: qual-software <QUAL-SOFTWARE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: QUAL-SOFTWARE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>
> Hi
>
> I'm pleased to announce a preview release of Weft QDA - a free,
> open-source software tool for qualitative data analysis. There's further
> information and downloads at
>
> http://www.pressure.to/qda/
>
> The tool was originally written for use in my MSc research project on
> credit unions in South London, submitted to the University of Surrey
> this summer. The intention was to create a simple interface for the
> generic "code-and-retrieve" activity in qualitative data analysis. It's
> been modififed to make it easier to install and use elsewhere, and I
> hope it might now be of use to others.
>
> I would very much welcome comments and suggestions for new features.
> Working full-time now, my time for developing the software is somewhat
> limited at present. However, I'm committed to fixing any problems that
> emerge and implementing new features as possible.
>
> Cheers
> Alex Fenton
>
>
>
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