open-source

Possible uses of CCK node-reference and user-reference

CCK is gone from Drupal7 and was replaced with the Fields API which is now part of core, but nodereference and userreference were not ported. This creates a problem for me because I use those 2 modules extensively. There's an effort to work something out to replace these 2 modules with something more compatible with drupal7, but the so...

Ogre3D engine based open source game?

I'm planning to use Ogre3d for 3d rendering to make a game prototype. Wanted to see how people use it. Does anybody know open source engine based on Ogre3d that is worth looking at? I have tried to search at sourceforge, but couldn't anything good. Thanks ...

How to contribute to an open source project?

Possible Duplicate: Best way to get into an open source project I'm hoping to contribute to a open source project. i'm an undergraduate of software engineering. i only need to get some experience in development side. so how can i do it? is there any way to contribute to an open source project? ...

Delete changeset or just fix it on next commit ?

Hello everybody I am newbie to develop open source project but i develop one on codeplex.com. I commit some wrong changesets to codeplex.com and i can not delete them but i know that i can delete entire project. I just want to ask that for a good open source project, do i have to faced to delete project headaches or just fix it in nex...

Android Twitter App Source Code

I've been reading this post on the android developer blog about the twitter client and UI patterns. It mentions the source code will become available, does anyone know if this has happened yet and where I can find it? I've drawn a blank. Thanks! ...

Digital Library

Hello, I am j2ee programmer. I want implement a digital library project. (document can be any format like doc, pdf). The books in the digital library are in the secured server and cannot be accessed until authenticaltion. I looked at issuu and scribd. It is perfect for us to implement digital library. The problem is whatever the documen...

How do one start a successful open source project?

Some time ago I observed a few people trying to start an open source project. About a week after the project started it more or less completely dissolved, partly due to issues with how the project itself was managed. The ideas behind the project were however very well thought and a lot of people are still interested in seeing it realize...

Reimplement algorithm from Open Source project

I am currently working on a project where we using an Open Source library (GPL) for some specific algorithms and computations. This will be later replaced by our own implementation. What I was wondering now is how much can you let yourself "help" or "inspire" by the Open Source implementation when implementing your own library which sh...

Good Open Source Project Management software

Possible Duplicates: Open Source Project Management Software Free Project management software I'm on the hunt of a good/easy to use project management software. I need the basics, nothing fancy and I'm on Windows. I need something with WBS, Gantt charts, etc. What is considered good open source project management software? ...

Perforce - how to allow users without checkin privileges to submit patches

Our team uses Perforce for revision control. We'd like to be able to accept patches from folks outside our team (e.g. support engineers) without giving them full privileges to check in code, like the way that open-source projects are willing to accept code from anyone but give full commit privileges to only a few people. Other source-c...

Well documented open source project in .net

Hi, im seaching some good quality open source project in .net, according this topic http://stackoverflow.com/questions/143088/open-source-c-projects-that-have-high-code-quality i found intresting open source projects like "Sharp develop", its great because i can build & run it without problem, but i would like learn how it was developed...

Open Source or Free wireframe tools

Are there any open source or free wire framing tools available? I tried Pencil, but are there any better ones? mockingbird.com was awesome, but it's paid now from Aug 15th. So, any other alternatives? Thanks ...

Simple online store

I don't want to use wordpress (with wp-ecommerce plugin) or other full-featured store scripts because my requirement is quite simple and limited: 2 product types: bags, tees 3 categories: classic, modern, special 3 sort options: by color, by category, by price Cart with PayPal as payment processor. Is there any lightweight (and open-s...

Google Code Hosting vs Sourceforge

From your experience what is better SF.net or Google code? To publish open source code? What is indexing faster in the search engine so it has more exposure? ...

Cocoa interface to GEDCOM file

The only full-fledged GPL Cocoa editor for GEDCOM 5.5 files (GenerationX) was last released in 2003: http://sourceforge.net/projects/generationx/ It looks unstable under Snow Leopard and would badly need a revamp. Someone recently posted a proof-of-concept application (unrelated to GenerationX) on Google Code, but it looks like an unmai...

Packaging a PHP-MySQL app to allow easy install

I've developed an open source application in php and mysql. I'd like to give it to the end user to install on their computer and use from their browser without me having to host it for them. But the end users are non-developers so they're unlikely to have what it takes to run the application (php-apache local environment like a developer...

Modifying an open source python program

I have an open source project written in python , it has some Forms and I want to modify a few things in the code and in the forms but it is my first time with python and I don't know what IDE to use and how to start ..my basic question is can I deal with forms in python like c#, java ...etc ? and how should I start ? ...

friends locator

i want an program in .net . as an mobile application .in which by using gps system we can locate the position of an person within the mobile application group ,with his/her authority. so i need guidence please. ...

Opensource legal question

Hey everyone, Is there any part of the GNU General Public License that would prevent someone from redistributing an open source project with new code added that is not open source. Such that the open source project except for minor structural changes will be released under GPL, but additional code that will add new functionality to the ...

What does it mean when open source projects (like MySQL) get sold

I've always released my personal code, all of which are small projects, under a GPL license. My reasons are more about personal preferences, but now I'm trying to understand the dynamics of open source and GPL beyond those personal preferences of mine. I'm looking at GPL projects like MySQL and I'm trying to understand what it means wh...