At OSDC* in Melbourne last week, I unveiled 'pstax' – a GUI tool for building machines to process data.

The annotated slides from my lightning talk (follow the link above) use screenshots to give a flavour of what pstax does. There's also a movie showing pstax in action (beware, the movie probably doesn't work on Windows). Of course the code is also available for download at that link too.

Help wanted

Name this project. The name 'pstax' was only ever meant to be a working title. It probably conflicts with a commercial product too. Please help by suggesting a name, ideally related to the theme of gears, machines, stacks or pipelines. Once I have a project name, I can get set up on SourceForge with CVS, a mailing list and a project homepage.

Fix the video. I made the video using xvidcap capturing at 4fps and then added the audio track with ffmpeg. I've tried converting to AVI and MOV and they all play under Mplayer (no surprise, it uses ffmpeg) but nothing works under Windows. If you can convert it to a form that works on Windows then please let me know.

* OSDC - the Open Source Developers Conference

In reply to pstax - GUI with a Perl Centre by grantm

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