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Ask Slashdot: What Does the FOSS Community Currently Need?

Posted by samzenpus on from the lend-a-hand dept.

First time accepted submitter d33tah writes "In the summer term of my final year of IT's bachelor's course in my university, every student is obliged to develop his own project; the only requirement is that the application would use any kind of a database. While others are thinking of another useless system for an imaginary company that nobody would actually use, I'd rather hack up something the FL/OSS community actually needs. The problem is — how to figure out what it could be?"

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  1. Web framework by dan_barrett · · Score: 4, Funny

    Definitely need another web framework option

    1. Re:Web framework by Garridan · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...with separate revision control software

  2. Re:Hmm... by ixarux · · Score: 5, Funny

    I second this. Hygienic unbearded ladies have always driven the motivations of men. (No offense to the bearded women...) We do need more of them.

  3. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fewer beards. Better grammar.

  4. Re:Hmm... by Garridan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Idiot. Women are to be kept in binders, not databases.