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Send an Open Source Project to COMDEX
chromatic writes "O'Reilly & Associates is working with COMDEX to create an Open Source Innovation Area. We've nominated 21 important, interesting, and useful applications. Here's your chance to vote on the six most deserving applications. Steve Mallet has more details in his weblog." There's lots of good choices for applications on the list as well. Chances are that you've used one of them at least once.
With apps I use every day like OpenOffice.org, Gaim, SquirrelMail - and those that save me loads of time, phpMyAdmin and TightVNC it's such a hard choice!!
Now if only PHP-Nuke was on the list - it's what has revolutionalised my life as a webmaster!!
"We're sorry, you need to be logged in to vote for this contest."
Thank you for telling me that after I'd carefully chosen my votes. "To keep track we ask that you please log in to your O'Reilly Network account." wasn't a fair warning, you made it sound optional.
If you're dealing with an office worker, OpenOffice and Evolution are good candidates. Home users would like to see XMMS, mplayer, GAIM, and SpamAssassin. Admins would be interested in Tight VNC and SpamAssassin. The creative types would want GIMP and Audacity.
As for the desktop, it might be a good idea to stick with one for all your demonstration boxes (all KDE or all GNOME) but of course mention that alternatives exist.
It would be nice if Slashdot ran this poll. Internet polls like this are not so useful I suppose, but still it would be cool to see how various projects rank out. The three leaders could be the chosen ones.
My choices in the O'Reilly list are Subversion, OpenOffice.org and SpamAssassin. None of these projects have known patent issues or issues with 3rd parties such as MSN, AOL, Yahoo (the related projects such as mplayer and GAIM do an *excellent* job however).
Banu
Yeah the problem is, that the programs with most users will definitely get most votes. Audio editing is not so common task, and most of the people haven't heard from Eclipse, so even if they were great programs, they won't be faring well in this vote.
Using some kind of grading combined with the amount of votes would perhaps solve this problem, but I guess it's too late now..
http://codeandlife.com
I know it is not a software package (I know the scripts can be downloaded, but let me gat to what I am getting at), but the site provides a home to many of these projects i feel that COMDEX needs to add it as an honorary member of the list.
-Seriv
PHP nuke lets you choose a theme so it's not that bad... but the default themes need a visit from that tv show... Queer Eye for the straight GUI.
I can't find the Cowboy Neal option!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
With that argument, then... Where is Linux? Where is Apache? Some open source applications should be so known that showing them there would be a waste of space.
If I would to choose just by popularity on that list, I would show KDE, gimp and OpenOffice, they are not new and are fairly known, but are between the more known open source applications of that list and won a lot of times awards like in LinuxJournal.
But, in the other hand, I would like to give some light to not so known applications to a wider audience, things could change. I surely would put there mplayer, but about the others is less clear. Maybe phpMyAdmin and GNUCash to cover different areas.
Also, the proposed projects are not so uniformly dispersed in the open source space. There are 3 projects that manage content in the web, like MoinMoin, Plone and Zope, instead of this I would propose TikiWiki that have a bit of each one. There are 2 that are just for developers, like SubVersion and Eclipse, and not sure if that will count for the "general public" or whatever goes to that kind of events. And there a some proposed programs that are fairy similar to widely know ones in the windows world, like Evolution and XMMS, that the general public will think that are Outlook and winamp and will not ask, and could give the false impression that open source is just copying other program features and not creating things completely new.
Oh, great, let's send a legally questionable program to COMDEX and get it in the spotlight. MS , Real, Intel and Apple won't care that we ignore the EULA's and strip out dll's from their applications in order to make it work.
Maybe do a dual booth with Mplayer and DeCSS just to really make certain two of our most important desktop apps get removed.
Great thinking guys...
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison
Um no, that's a very common refrain.
Look at Linux, Apache, OpenOffice, KDE, Mozilla...
for each of them, there is a pre-existing closed-source project that it can be called a "clone" of.
In fact, when RMS was initially starting the "Free Software" movement, he explicitally declared they would clone Unix:
That seminal message suggests that cloning an existing program will be vastly easier than making a new one, because since there's little original thinking involved, the communication needs between distributed developers are much, much smaller.
I'd agree with all of the apps on this list as being very worthy of nomination, but I am shocked that Samba is not there.
i would take gnuCash off that list and put something like Compiere. gnuCash is nice and all but at comdex it would look silly. it would be like taking Amanda there.
... maybe you could toss that into my qmail mix below somehow.
same with Xmms, 'wow it looks like just winamplinux has a winamp clone, how cute.'
MoinMoin? twiki blows this project away, you lost me on this nomination.
spamassassin? wont mcafee already have spamassassin there in the form of spamkiller? but seriously
how about showing off snort? or swan interopering with some real world hardware
how about setting up five little machines running qmail and blast a million delivered mail messages between the machines per hour and have a big led bank sign as a counter? then add and import thousands of users dynamically using ldap.
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