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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. Coherence. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We're finally seeing sociologists and anthropologists and, AT LONG LAST programmers articulate the pathological brogrammer culture and the contempt for user concerns that it brings. The, in fact, glee and pride in being awkward and macho and making ocde that is awkward and clumsy.

    So that being the case, work on bridging some FOSS codebase with modern UI and actual decent graphic design. Spend some time reading Hermann Zapf and Edward Tufte. And then come up with some way to smooth out the intentional bullshit that infests FOSS.

    Or if you want a nice small app to do, create a version of Windowshade for OS X that works worth a damn.

  2. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fewer beards. Better grammer.

    There, FTFY.