Marketing a PowerShell/.NET open source project
How do I market a new open source project using .NET and PowerShell? The project has taken me around a years effort to get near completion, I'd appreciate some hints on how to get the word out. ...
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Help me find an open source project to join.
Hi. For quite some time I have been thinking about joining an open source project. First of all, joining a project will help me become a better developer, and I’d like the challenge of working with people from around the world (I’m from Denmark). Secondly, I use a lot of open source software, both at work and in my spare time so it’s ab...
What effect does Microsoft using MVC have on open source?
I was listening to the Hansel Minutes podcast from 11/24 talking about Moonlight. To paraphrase, Scott made the comment that Microsofts attitude about open source is quickly changing, especially with the adoption of MVC architecture. I admit I don't have the best 'big picture' grasp of what MVC means to the developement world, but spec...
Are we shooting ourselves in the foot by working on Open Source projects?
I've been considering the idea of working on some open source projects, mainly because of the same reasons that everyone else does it: for fun and to learn something new. But now more than ever these OS (Open Source) projects are taking more and more strength and becoming more and more popular. So, I've been thinking, are we developers k...
How do I use .NET without loss of control over intellectual property?
Am I correct in assuming that .NET is a kind of Claytons Open Source (the open source you have when you're not having open source) given that it is so readily decompiled into a variety of representations? Obfuscation is nothing for someone with a text editor and access to regular expression-based text substitution tools. What do I do wh...
Free DotNetNuke skin resources
Does anyone have any quality resources for some free (or cheap) DotNetNuke skins? Most of the skin resources in the DotNetNuke ecosystem are to costly when you need a simple skin for a site that may not turn any revenue. ...
GPL Code: What counts as a derivative work?
I'm working on an open-source project that I want to release under a permissive license, because it's a library, not an application and personally, I don't like copyleft for library code. If I were to browse through GPL code written in a different programming language just to get a general idea of how to do something, and then write a d...
Is there a supported CodePlex license that restrict using the source for commercial?
Hello, I have been reading through the CodePlex supported open source licenses, i couldn't quite understand everything, What i am looking for is a License that restrict the use of my source code commercialy. is there one? Thanks ...
Subversion usages
Hi all, I am just starting to use "Subversion" with "Tortoise SVN client" for one of my opensource project which is hosted on "Google Code". I would like to get some best practices on using it. I am following the default folder structure(trunk,branch,tag). Following are the questions When will you do the initial checkin? Is it only af...
What are the best open-source software non-profits for making financial contributions and/or facilitating useful work?
I'm not a great programmer myself (my main job is more electrical engineering) and have never really helped out with any open source projects, but I've benefited greatly from free and/or open-source software (MySQL, OpenOffice, Firefox, Apache, PHP, Java, etc.) and at some point would like to make some modest financial contributions to h...
Pros and Cons of Copyleft
From your perspective as a programmer, what are some of the pros and cons of releasing open-source hobby projects under permissive vs. copyleft licenses? My personal opinion is that there's nothing fundamentally immoral about improving an open-source project and making the improved version proprietary. This is not free-riding on the ...
Searching for a school project that will blow away my teachers
Hey guys, for my ABITUR which is the end exam of highschool in germany I want to do a project with my friend. We are both pretty good at programming (and have our own company) and have about 9 months to finish the project (after school so mostly saturdays and sundays) we want to build something that will blow our teachers away but don't...
What is involved in open sourcing proprietary software?
My primary motivation for asking this question is this uservoice suggestion. Jeff declined the ticket to make the SO software open source saying that it will take more time. I've seen this before in various other pieces of software that have gone from proprietary to open source. So, my question is: why does it seem to take so long to...
Which open source database is the best option for an accounting-related system?
I am in the early stages of planning and designing a custom accounting application for my firm. My goal is to utilize an open source relational database for the data storage portion and I'm aware of two solid databases that are widely supported: MySQL and PostgreSQL. For a system that will require transactions, stored procedures, functi...
Has anyone found a good open source ajax calendar control (not a popup date picker)
We are looking at replacing a proprietary calendar control. I've looked at scal http://scal.fieldguidetoprogrammers.com but styling is weak and it's not functional enough for day-spanning events or concurrent events in the day view. Feyasoft.com has a ExtJs based ajax calendar that looks great but its not open source. Thanks in advan...
How do I spread awareness of my open source project?
I've got a couple open-source projects on Codeplex (I'll link if someone asks, but otherwise, I'm not quite that shameless ;)), but I'm not really sure how to go about spreading the word or getting people to take notice. Any suggestions for attracting users/contributors? See also: How to get users to your Open Source project How do...
J2ME and (open source) applet signing for Mobile Devices (esp. phones) - what can I do?
I've just discovered J2ME and I love the possibilities that it presents. I'm currently working on a simple application and I'd like to maybe release it as an open-source project sometime in the future. As part of my research into J2ME and mobile devices, I looked into applet signing. It seems that people who want to create applets for...
Collaboration/management tools for programming shop?
This is not a programming question, but I figured I would ask in here, since there are a lot of professional coders. Let me know if you have any suggestion on the software we could use to manage a technical department. I currently work for programming shop, employing about 30 people. We have different software products that we provide t...
What is the best open source example of a lightweight Windows Application?
I would like to learn how a program can be written and installed without the use of the .net framework. I'm looking for a project that is known to be lightweight and robust. Something like the uTorrent client. ...
Best Open Source Java CMS
I'm trying to find a good Java cms, I've stumbled uppon some that are quite good like: Apache Lenya, dotCMS, Info Glue, Open Edit, MMBase, Contelligent, Hippo CMS Which on do you guys recommend, or even one that I'm missing, because I have some more that I am studying at the moment. The requirements are that I can build modules for it...