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This page is for dumping items that need to be (re-)integrated into other areas of the wiki. If you want to spend a few minutes editing pages here and there, these are quick little things that you could do that would be quite helpful. =TravelTrack= The TravelTrack client/server application is designed to give business travelers a very simple advantage...more time. By reducing the time spent on many mundane but very necessary travel related activities, TravelTrack frees the business traveler's mind and energy for more important tasks...like those related to the whole reason for being on the road to begin with.

Activities like booking travel, coordinating schedules & events, submitting receipts and finding acceptable restaurants while in the field are simpler with TravelTrack.

OK. Now that the sales pitch is over, here are some more tangible line items about TravelTrack:  Itinerary tracking Nested events Expense recording, tracking and submittal Peer reviews and notes for any facility (like restaurants or hotels) Expense Reporting, including document routing approvals and entry into many accounting systems Disconnected operation Clients for popular handheld computers running either Linux or PalmOS Synchronization between a handheld and a notebook (or other system) or directly with a TravelTrack server</li> Single source runs on Linux, MacOS X, Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX and Linux based handhelds. This means that each release is immediately available on all supported platforms. (PalmOS version requires seperate code tree, unfortunately)</li> </ul>

Currently, the basic framework for both the notebook/desktop client and the server components is nearing completion. The database engineering is almost done. Once that is complete, the communications protocol API can be finalized. At that point the only thing remaining is to implement the server-side communications API pieces, the business logic behind the server-side and the client presentation & user interface elements. One other UI task will be to write a separate GUI for the handheld version, for efficient use of that form factor. At this time, the PalmOS client has not been started and may not be available at the time the rest of the application reaches it's full Alpha test stage. the PalmOS client is a show-stopper item for the Beta release, however.

Features being considered for future versions: <ul> Extending the TravelTrack server Itinerary functionality to become a full-blown calendaring server</li> Plug-in clients for Kontact/KOrganizer, Novell Evolution and Mozilla Firebird PIMs</li> Mapping support, possibly even including a complete GIS database on the TravelTrack server</li> </ul>

=StartPoint= StartPoint is a Website Management System (WMS), which is much more than just a Content Management System (CMS). In addition to CMS features, the StartPoint WMS also supports integrated blog, wiki, portal and tracker (project management, bug tracking, etc.) management.