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OpenWengo Code Camp
An anonymous reader writes "It seems that OpenWengo launched its first Code Camp a few days ago. The contest is apparently following the same process as Google Summer of Code, but is mainly focused on VoIP software.
There are 14 projects for students to work on. Among them, a couple pretty interesting ones, like creating an XUL interface editor. There is a 3500 Euro stipend at stake for students completing their project. I also find interesting that most of the available projects can be reused by any software project using a GPL-compatible license."
Is this nothing more than a cheap excuse to groom students to work on OpenWengo's own software? C'mon now, the OSS market hasn't sunk that low...
I'll subscribe to Slashdot when I see a month without a dupe, a typo, or an article the "editors" didn't read.
It's called "Finish-my-next-CS-project" summer of code camp. Kids, help out a poor college student =/
In all seriousness, these code camps are great for everybody involved. Experience for the programmers; good, "hearty" code for the company. Even if you don't win IMHO the experience is well worth it especially for somebody who has never programmed outside of a class before.
If O2 is good, O3 must be 1.5 times better!
Just asking...
I thought the title said "Winnebago Code Camp". Unless you're programming the spaceship from Spaceballs, computers and Winnebagos don't mix well.
If you're an OSS project, and you want people to join in, contribute, admire or whatever, please, please, PLEASE, explain WTF you are and what you're doing on the main page of your web site. Don't make people hunt for this information. Otherwise we're likely to infer that you're just another overenthusiastic underorganized OSS group that has nothing interesting going on.
3,500.00 EUR = 4,381.44 USD
"following the same process than google summer of code" ????
Does it work good with Zfone? If not is it secure?
If they were using VOIP, they better check in with Uncle Sam with all their doings.
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I'm sure your profanity-laced submissions in the public domain, or under the new BSD or MIT X11 licenses will be given due consideration.
But some people care about the freedom of derivatives, so they prefer licenses which work to ensure that derivative works are also free.
Digital Citizen
There's innovation in taking free work and make it non-free?
The GPL is the savior of free software, without it the movement would have been destroyed long ago. MIT and BSD licenses need to be eliminated.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Corporate sponsorship doesn't seem to be a goal or a problem for GPL-covered programs, unless you want to argue that IBM, Redhat, and HP aren't corporations. But why should corporations be given primacy? Users rights are far more important and happen to be eminently compatible with making money as well.
There also seems to be no lack of talent in programs licensed under the GNU GPL; such as the GNU utility programs which people seem to prefer against free and proprietary alternatives alike because they're free and so highly capable (even software proprietors including Apple agree; MacOS X is compiled with GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection).
Perhaps your Silicon Valley-based office should consider doing something more competitive than relying on GPL-incompatible licensing and namecalling.
Digital Citizen
I don't know about you, but I'll avoid any camp that has "wengo" in the title. How did that altered camp song go again, "And bingo licked my wango..."?
Table-ized A.I.
What's forcing you to code using/linking/derivating GPL'ed libraries and programs? You're free to ignore all the GPL code out there. Weren't it for the GPL, all this free code wouldn't even exist. So quit trolling: proprietary softwares kill innovation, they have killed it for the last 25 years. Soon, full FOSS stacks will catch up with proprietary equivalents and finally, it'll be easier for 3rd parties to innovate. At least that's how I see the big picture. I don't wanna elaborate with an AC, but I'm sure you or some /.er will have a different opinion :)
From the FAQ: http://www.openwengo.org/index.php/openwengo/publi c/homePage/openwengo/public/faq
Can I use <other_SIP_provider> instead of Wengo ?
This feature is planned for the NG release.
Because it's so hard to implement? it's not there yet...
I suggest you implement it -- your're going to have a hard time getting people onboard on yet another "we will be *the* VOIP provider"-scheme.
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Add encryption and I'll use it instead of skype...
I never programmed anything on a mac, but I was at an Apple workshop this spring and the Apple guy was talking about Xcode.
Apparently gcc wasn't very good. Developers were upset when they compiled their projects in Xcode rather than from Code Warrior for the first time. Compiling things took like fifty times longer. Granted, Apple worked on this and gcc4 is faster.
Now this could all be bullshit, I dunno, I haven't seen any of this referenced other than being told by this Apple guy. But it would be pretty bold to say something like that and not be able to back it up were someone to ask you about it. Anyways, just saying companies are competetive, and maybe not all gnu projects are more capable than proprietary alternatives.
Its amazing to see that Mozilla with all money they got to put a full page on NYT dont do something like this. We have to congratulate Google and Wango for doing something more and bash a little more on "BIG" foundations that does excessive marketing.
Por qué?
"Forget the engineers." -Carly Fiorina, briber of MIT Technology Review.
Alright, I don't mean to troll/flame here - I absolutely love FOSS and use it every day at work and at home, but seriously, when are people going to stop using utterly ridiculous names for everything! It's difficult for people in a corporate context (or otherwise) to take a valid, FOSS project seriously when it is named in an absurd fashion - Wengophone (Wang-a-what?!), Ubuntu (WTF???), The GIMP (Gee, no bad associations there...)
I mean, obviously if you start a project, it's your right to name it whatever you want, and some people don't care about corporate acceptance, but anyone that wants to see FOSS software start edging out proprietary, restrictive garbage would be wise to get some marketing people involved, at least in the naming/branding department. Surprisingly, there are plenty of marketing people out there that *ARE* useful for something - this exact thing in fact.
Parent is obviously pro-corporate troll. Lets show him we dont tolerate his kind on /. - mods, do you're worst!
They were touted as the open source alternative to skype. but look all over their forums, people are calling them frauds. Because, people buy credits worth 10 Euro, and then are unable to make any calls. All the support guys on the forum have just one thing to say "It will be sorted within a day or 2!" And now this. I really doubt their business model and how are they making money. And I am not trolling over here. Head over to The support forum And do you know another thing, if you watch the lower window part while login, you can see your password in plain text. Yes its sent in https, but something which shows my password in plain view... well scary. Did not expect such bloopers from what is being touted as the open source answer to skype
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