Opera has freed its first open source project, moving code for its Dragonfly debug tool onto the popular BitBucket hosting service. Dragonfly - a website debug tool similar to Mozilla's Firebug - was always intended as an open source project. From its inception in '008, it carried an open source BS ...
Nokia is re-spinning its Qt project as an independent open source project, promising that cross-platform development framework code will be simultaneously available to Nokia and to the open source community. More details on the new project will emerge at the Qt Developer Days events, scheduled for Oct. 24-26 in Munich and Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 in San Francisco....
Have you been considering launching an open source project? Doing so involves a series of decisions that can give you a proper chance at rallying community support, staying on the right side of the law, and building a strong user base. Issues pertaining to licensing, distribution, support options and even branding require thinking ahead if you want your project to flourish.
Open source may not be important enough for Google to release the code of many of its own applications and platforms. But the company nonetheless places a premium on supporting open source development by third parties, as it showed late last week when it donated $20,000 to support the Eclipse IDE project.
What I've done
I've created a library project that contains several custom views complete with custom attributes.
If you follow the open source channel regularly, you’ve probably heard a lot in recent months about ownCloud, the open source cloud platform. Expect to read even more about the project and the company behind it, which is pushing out yet more features and announcing new partnerships as it continues to lead open source’s charge into the cloud space.
Hello,
I'm looking for an open source application to contribute to. I'm sure this has been asked before.
I've found the project ThinkUp: http://www.thinkupapp.com/
There are 800+ people on the mailing list. Is this a suitable project for a beginner?
Is mailing list size a good indicator of project support and/or complexity? Should I look for a smaller project?
Cyanogenmod 10.1
CyanogenMod is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. Linked below is a package that has come from another Android project that restore the Google parts.
The Linux Foundation has announced a number of one-year project milestones for the OpenMAMA project that include important new code contributions, a fully open source software stack and the first commercial offering to result from the project.
OpenMAMA is an open source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API that provides an interface for passing data between high volume, low latency messaging applica