I am running a FOSS desktop application. I was wondering if you have some good advice on how to manage the technical aspect of strings translation. Currently, I have a single resource file, which users download, translate and post on a relevant tracker. This procedure is hard to manage, since i have to keep track of who posted what, wh...
In my review of free package distributed under the Apache license I found a number of bugs ranging from the obscure code issues to security holes. I've taken the following steps: I notified the project lead through private email about this two weeks ago, and other than an acknowledgment of said emails, I haven't seen any internal o...
Hi, Im a level three CSE student. I need to involve in an open source project to get experience about FOSS. Where should I start?, how to find projects (suitable for a beginner)? Thanks in advance !! ...
I'm an undergraduate who has decided that he wants to join the open source community and contribute. However, I have come to think that, once you have chosen an open source project, a lot of time is spent in learning the nitty gritties of that project in addition to stuff like subversion,etc which a typical undergraduate isn't exposed to...
I am a self-taught c++/java programmer (I will be starting uni in August though!). I have worked on one project in which I was part of an active team. I really felt I learnt the most and gained a lot of experience while working with the team. Unfortunately it was a small closed source project which has recently taken a slumber. I'm l...
I have been kicking an idea around for sometime and wondered if something of it's nature hadn't already been invented. The premise is a website that integrates code management, project/team management, and micro-transactions. Donations, in and of themselves, are a sporadic, and unreliable method of supporting developers. Furthermore mo...
I'm a big fan of JGraphT, a Java library for graphs. Could anyone recommend a similar Java library for trees? Preferrably FOSS. What I need is a good API, preferrably typesafe with generics which allows modelling different kinds of trees (with some user data attached to verticies/edges) and run different algorithms and operations on the...
Hi, I want to develop a site using all three FOSS i.e. Forum,wikis and CMS.But i have few doubts. 1.Can you suggest which is the best software for each of the three(Forum,wikis and CMS).? 2.How should i make the front end preferably(i.e should i use Dreamweaver or just use the CMS for the front end too) 3.How do i integrate all the thr...
I was recently made the "open source representative" for our software team. Some of the duties include: Tracking FOSS used in our projects Propose FOSS solutions to the software team Being the intermediary between the software team and the legal department While I have some experience with FOSS, I was wondering: Where I can get a g...
Hi, I'm want to add a windows installer to my project. I saw two open source solutions: WiX and Nsis. Do you have any expirience with them? Do you use another FOSS installer? ...
Hi All, I am currently using Visio to draw the layout of our server systems for future developers to grok. We program on Open Source tools like ruby and Ubuntu, and using Visio is rubbing me the wrong way. Are there any good open source alternatives for making pretty charts to explain hwow are servers are laid out? ...
Wanting to dive in to some FOSS contributions using C++ . Any recommendations? If possible, I would like to keep using Visual Studio if possible. :P Thanks SO! ...
I've googled (without any luck) for open source software that can convert doc, ppt, and pdf to HTML5. (Exactly what Scribd does) Are there open source equivalents to the type of conversion Scribd does? If anyone knows of a paid service, that would also work. Scribd has an API, but that's for use with the flash viewer. Also, I would like...
Before I start to reinvent the axle ... what's the best source of Android FOSS? Is it the Android marketplace? There appear to be some projects on SourceForge ... anywhere else? ...
hi all of you, Can you please help me to know the meaning of vendor independence that provided by Free and open source software (FOSS)? ...
If you want a permissive FOSS licence you'd go for MIT or 3-clause BSD and if you want a strong copyleft FOSS licence you'd go for AGPL, wouldn't you? ...