guizmo51 / geco

Lightweight desktop application for management of orienteering events

Geco 2.2

Copyright (c) 2008-2014 Simon Denier
Homepage: http://sdenier.github.io/Geco

Geco is a lightweight application for managing orienteering races. It is written in Java and designed to be cross-platform.

Geco comes with powerful features designed around its algorithm for automatic course detection: accurate trace, automatic entry before/after the race, race recreation from backup memory...

The Geco UI is designed to provide a lean user experience: navigate through stage workflow using the top tabs, and access data by direct manipulation.

Geco can handle multiple race formats: classic inline, free order, Orient'Show (penalty count, knockout qualifications).

About the 2.2

Geco 2.2 provides faster ecard readouts and introduces course sets, which enables easier handling of One Man Relay events and the like...

Install & Launch

Unzip the archive file then double-click the jar file.

Geco runs with Java version 6 and above. You can download a JRE (Java Runtime Environment) from http://www.java.com

You need SPORTIdent drivers to read SI cards.

• Windows: download available at http://www.sportident.com/
• Linux: recent kernels recognize the chip used by SI station, so it’s plug’n’play.
• Mac OS X: read the FAQ.

User documentation

Available under the help/ folder in html format.

If you are experienced with orienteering softwares, you can jump-start using the application without the doc. Geco UI is designed to be usable: almost any available action is visible, data accessible through direct manipulation, no hidden menus, no complicated workflow.

Directory structure for Geco 2 releases

• geco*.jar - application
• data/template/ - sample files for various imports (archive, startlist...)
• data/modeles/ - french models for course-category associations
• formats/ - mustache templates for results (ranking, splits, ticket...)
• help/ - documentation in html format
• licences/ - license files

Contribution

If you want to contribute to Geco (whatever your skills are), you can! Just read that page to see what you can do.

If you specifically want to develop, go read the dev guidelines.

License Information

The Geco application is released under the GNU General Public License Version 2. See gpl-2.0.txt for details.

Original parts of this program are distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE file for details. Open-source code available at http://github.com/sdenier/Geco

GecoSI library released under the MIT license. See http://github.com/sdenier/GecoSI for full details. GecoSI uses the RXTX library, released under LGPL v 2.1 + Linking Over Controlled Interface.

Other libraries used by Geco:

• JarClassLoader (GNU General Public License Version 2)
• Json in Java (subset)
• Jackson (Apache License 2.0)
• ICU4J (subset, ICU License 1.8.1)
• JMustache

Icons come from the Crystal Project Icons (LGPL) by Everaldo Coelho.