(hello? don't know if anybody reads this, I'm the first to admit I don't write especially interesting stuff, but c'mon I don't think my entries deserve a score as low as our friendly chinese spammers, do I? so if anybody with a heart would be so nice and give me at least a score of 2??)

Pyblio has gained a nice feature. For the record, it's a python framework for handling publication references, but probably also your collection of books, dvds, tapes, whatever. In pyblio 1.3, you can now adapt a publication database format (from, say, PubMed) into another format (say, BibTeX). It's still more of a proof of concept, waiting for more extensive use. So far I have the following features:

• external queries (pubmed, web of science, crossref)
• adaptation between database formats
• citation formatting (to generate an actual citation from a publication reference)
• searching / editing / storing of references

What I need to complete is:

• storage of fulltext documents (I've a few ideas already)
• interaction with word processors (esp. openoffice)
• glueing all these features in the GUI, which is very rudimentary so far on the 1.3 branch.

I would like to extend the data model a bit, but this will certainly wait until the rest consolidates.

Unfortunately, the community that lives around pyblio has a low ratio of developers / users. Worse, as I had not enough free time these last months for the project, I probably discouraged some potential developers. I really need to lower the barrier of entry into the project, but I don't know how so far. Perhaps by completing a few sample applications instead of adding new features? Writing documentation? Putting some simple web apps online, so that people can actually test some features?