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OpenGl surface&texture

I have: 3d pointset, wich calculated from 3d reconstruction process from N frame. sample frame snapthot (for example first frame when camera in (0,0,0)) 3d to 2d corresponds I want: create triangulation of point set and put texture (frame snaphot) on it. How can i create this triangulation + texture via OpenGL? I can't find any g...

Distributed Source Control is not for Visual Studio users?

I remember 2 events in SVN history: TortoiseSVN got usable and VisualSVN got usable. The result of the first: "We will never ever want to use SVN with command line". The result of the second: "We will never ever use SVN & MSVS without VisualSVN" please understand this correct - we do use SVN command line if we need something that can n...

Policy Document Software needed

Does anyone know of a good piece of open source software or system for doing living policy documents? Constraints: Automagically generates table of contents Authorization levels and control Quickly sort sections and swap them around without losing formatting Management sections invisible to non-managers Automagically assigns section...

git workflow for keeping custom-modified open source software up to date?

Our University provides web hosting to campus departments on servers we manage. Installing open-source third-party programs requires modifying file permissions and code in the program before it will run. (We're using suEXEC, if you're familiar.) We currently offer WordPress via an installer script. The user uploads the newest stable rel...

Can anyone recommend an open source Help Desk application like Zendesk?

I'm in the process of building out a website for my freelance services and would like to offer customers the ability to file issues directly through my site in an interface similar to that offered by Zendesk, however I would like to use a free open source alternative that I can host and manage on my server. Any recommendations? ...

Protect project from renaming

Hi all, I'm currently working on a new project, and I would like to publish it as Open-Source... The project consists in a server and a client created to emulate a famous 2d game... There are already 2 or 3 some other projects of this type (Open-Source), but you all know in these days people have the habit to rename the work of other peo...

Was Samba ever distributed commercially?

I have heard that there was once a company whose only purpose was to sell Samba to corporations that forbade open source software. Is this true? If so, what was that company's name? ...

Any recommendation to use a personalize openID invitation in a Website?

I want to use OpenId in my website but i want to personalize it in that way to the user can just login with FB Twitter Gmail and Hotmail with just a few step by step ...

OOP implementation of a forum

I've been searching for this and can't quite get to what I need. Is anyone aware of an open source forum script written in PHP that utilizes OOP concepts? So has to be Forum OOP Open source I will accept answers for anything else, including tutorials, videos, etc. since I get to still see the source and learn from it. ...

Why should I make my product open? Why Not?

I am working on a really big project and I was wondering if i should make it open or have them pay for the license to use.. ...

General purpose open source taxonomy database

I am looking for a database which could help me group thousands of English-language keywords to few general disciplines. For example: I HAVE THIS => I WANT TO HAVE THIS cat => animal chair => household wine => drink deer => animal beer => drink glass => household, drink total 50 000 keywords => total <100 disciplines I guess that orga...

.net open source rateless erasure code

I'm looking for an open source .net (preferably C#) library which implements rateless erasure codes. Has anyone come across any good libraries? ...

Is there a recent open source Java BitTorrent library?

I've found Snark but it hasn't been updated since 2003 there have been some important changes to the protocol since then (DHT most importantly). I know I can also use the Azureus core but I'm hoping there is a another project designed as a library that I could use or help get to a usable state. ...

Decision tree induction open-source code

I am preparing a task for computer vision class, which involves training a simple classifier after extracting features from images. Since machine learning is not the main topic here, I don't want students to implement a learning algirithm from scratch. So, I have to recommend them some reference implementations. I believe the decision tr...

Looking for library which implements LZW compression/decompression.

I need to learn how to do Lempel–Ziv–Welch compression using pen and paper for my algorithms and data structures class. Unfortunately we have only a couple of examples in our book of how it is done. I'd like to practice compressing and decompressing text using it, but I need to find a way to check if I'm right doing it right or wrong. On...

Picking an appropriate license

I'm working on a web based ladder system for a game. It is very game specific and I want to make the project open source so the community can give back, contribute and make the experience better for everyone. However at the same time I don't want people to re-use the code/implement the code on separate sites because the purpose of the we...

How can I create a windows native port of an open source program?

I want to create a native windows port for the sagemath project. Currently, an ongoing cygwin port exists. But, developers at Sage-Windows-Devel group told me that a windows port would be much more appreciated. Since, it takes a long time to build sage using cygwin/gcc. Therefore, I want to create, say MSVC project files for each of the...

Who owns the IP rights for nHibernate and Castle?

Hi, Who owns the IP rights for nHibernate and Castle? I am aware that they are open source, but is there a company/individual who holds the IP for these? Thanks ...

Looking for open source javascript implementations of the pubhubsubbub protocol

What are the javascript open source implementations of the pubsubhubbub protocol publishing side first ...

Has anyone here tried PHP On Pie?

I created this framework to fill what I felt was a need for a PHP-like framework that was really efficient. My goal is to make it into a real open-source project, but since I have never launched a popular open-source project, I could use some feedback and advice. My question is, has anyone here used it, and if so, what was your experien...