. "Virtuoso as storage plugin for MySQL" . "MySQL offers a pluggable storage engine architecture [1]\r\n\r\nThe task is to implement a storage engine plugin wrapper for the Virtuoso Universal Server [2].\r\n\r\nSuch an storage engine plugin will provide enormous advantages for both MySQL and Virtuoso users. MySQL users, for example, can seamlessly access Virtuoso databases directly from within their usual environment. Virtuoso users will benefit from the wealth of tools and applications available for MySQL, such as PHPMyAdmin.\r\n\r\n[1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/pluggable-storage.html\r\n[2] http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/" . "soeren" . "2007-10-11 23:28:12" . "2007-10-11 23:28:12" . "open" . . "Use of Virtuoso storage backend for OntoWiki" . " " . "soeren" . "2007-10-12 00:29:15" . "2007-10-12 00:29:15" . "open" . . "Social networking extension for Mozilla Thunderbird" . "The plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird should inform about the membership of senders of emails in social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, XING, MySpace, Skype etc.\r\n\r\nSocial Networking services such as XING [1] and LinkedIn [2] already provide toolbars for MS Outlook the task is to create a similar toolbar for Thunderbird, which is furthermore not limited to one Social Network.\r\n\r\nSeveral Social Network accounts should be configurable with the extension. Once, the user receives a new email the extension should check if the sender is member of one of the configured Social Networks. This can be for example indicated by small buttons in the toolbar, which are black and white by default but colored once a membership is detected.\r\n\r\nThe extension should either use the API's provided by the Social Networks or some kind of scraping mechanism.\r\n\r\n[1] http://www.xing.com/app/user?op=downloads\r\n[2] http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=outlook_toolbar_download&trk=ftr_otb" . "soeren" . "2007-10-11 23:16:38" . "2007-10-11 23:16:38" . "open" . . "DBpedia infobox extraction in languages other than English" . "DBpedia comprises an extraction of RDF from the infobox templates within Wikipedia articles.\r\n\r\nCurrently, RDF triples are only extracted from the English Wikipedia version. This should be extended to the top 10 largest Wikipedia editions.\r\n\r\n[1] http://dbpedia.org" . "soeren" . "2007-10-14 01:13:34" . "2007-10-14 01:13:34" . "open" . . "Use Firefox search plugins in Thunderbird" . "Requested is a Thunderbird extension, which allows to directly use the configured search plugins of a Firefox installation.\r\n\r\nThe existing SearchWith [1] extension seems to provide similar functionality, however does not seem to allow to directly use the configured Firefox search plugins.\r\n\r\n[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2194" . "soeren" . "2007-10-12 15:31:28" . "2007-10-12 15:31:28" . "open" . . "Syncronization support for Sunbird's Google Calendar Provider" . "There exists already an extension allowing to directly read and write events to and from a Google calendar [1]. This extension would make much more sense, if it would allow an offline usage, i.e. events are synchronized between Sunbird and Google Calendar, once an online connection is available.\r\n\r\n[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/sunbird/addon/4631" . "soeren" . "2007-10-12 15:39:40" . "2007-10-12 15:39:40" . "development" . . "New RDF/XML parser for RDF-API for PHP" . "RAP - RDF API for PHP [1] is a software package for parsing, querying, manipulating, serializing and serving RDF models. \r\n\r\nThe RDF/XML parser component unfortunately is very slow and contains several bugs. We are looking for an complete (re-)implementation using one of the recent XML-APIs for PHP.\r\n\r\n[1] http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/rdfapi/" . "soeren" . "2007-10-13 18:43:30" . "2007-10-13 18:43:30" . "open" . . "Pidgin auto-updater" . "Pidgin [1] is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, updating an existing Pidgin installation still requires several steps: going to the Pidgin website, downloading the newest version, installing it.\r\n\r\nAn automatic update feature, as it is for example implemented in Firefox would be very beneficial.\r\n\r\n[1] http://www.pidgin.im" . "soeren" . "2007-10-13 18:47:42" . "2007-10-13 18:47:42" . "development" . . "SQLite storage plugin for MySQL" . "MySQL offers a pluggable storage engine architecture [1]\r\n\r\nThe task is to implement a storage engine plugin wrapper for the SQLite [2].\r\n\r\nSuch an storage engine plugin will provide enormous advantages for both MySQL and SQLite users. MySQL users, for example, can seamlessly access SQLite databases directly from within their usual environment. SQLite users will benefit from the wealth of tools and applications available for MySQL, such as PHPMyAdmin.\r\n\r\n[1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/pluggable-storage.html\r\n[2] http://www.sqlite.org" . "soeren" . "2007-10-13 19:28:39" . "2007-10-13 19:28:39" . "open" . . "Facet-based browsing for DBpedia content" . "DBpedia comprises an extraction of RDF from the infobox templates within Wikipedia articles.\r\n\r\nDue to the multiplicity of different properties used within infoboxtemplates querying and browsing of DBpedia content are challenging.\r\n\r\nDuring this project a facet-based browser should be either adopted or developed for browsing DBpedia content.\r\n\r\n[1] http://dbpedia.org" . "soeren" . "2007-10-14 01:16:53" . "2007-10-14 01:16:53" . "open" . . "Cofundos improvements" . "Please add your feature requests for CF as requirements to this project." . "soeren" . "2007-10-14 14:57:52" . "2007-10-14 14:57:52" . "open" . . "Media library using Drupal" . "Drupal module/package selection/adaptation for maintaining a (shared) media library of e.g. books and films one owns, knows, has read or watched, likes to read or watch. Insertion of new media should be possible via metadata-lookup e.g. via Amazon and IMDB. Users shall be able to restrict displayed media by various attributes (e.g. only one own's media). Navigation along various attributes (e.g. authors, year, actors, directors, language) and as faceted search. Private and public comments and ratings for each medium, e.g. to denote where a medium resides physically in one's library.\r\n\r\nhttp://drupal.org\r\n\r\nSuggested modules include http://drupal.org/project/faceted_search, http://drupal.org/project/cck, http://drupal.org/project/amazontools (?)\r\nAdapt imdb parser from http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3299.html\r\n" . "david" . "2007-10-18 15:09:26" . "2007-10-18 15:09:26" . "open" . . "LaTeX support for OJS" . "Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system [1]. LaTeX support unfortunately is very preliminary, but essential for certain scientific communities. Hence, the goal is to support complete publishing workflows on the basis of LaTeX.\r\n\r\n[1] http://pkp.sfu.ca" . "klaus" . "2007-10-16 04:04:52" . "2007-10-16 04:04:52" . "open" . . "Amazon EC2 AMI for MySQL Cluster" . "Amazon's Elastic Computation Cloud [1] enables to deploy Linux images on an hourly, pay-as-you go basis. For deployed LAMP Web applications, with high traffic peaks it would be great if EC2 could be used to deploy a database or even Web application cluster, which scales as traffic increases.\r\n\r\nThis project's aim is to create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) containing the applications, libraries, data and associated configuration settings for deploying a MySQL cluster.\r\n\r\n[1] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2\r\n[2] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-cluster.html" . "klaus" . "2007-10-16 17:48:51" . "2007-10-16 17:48:51" . "open" . . "DL-Learner GUI" . "DL-Learner (http://dl-learner.org, http://sf.net/projects/dl-learner) is a machine learning tool for OWL and Description Logics. It has recently been restructured, such that is is now easy to write different interfaces for it. Currently, a command line and a web service interface are developed for it. It would be very convenient to have a GUI (Java based, e.g. using the Swing or SWT framework) for the tool, which would allow for easy configuration of the involved components." . "Jens" . "2007-10-19 17:16:49" . "2007-10-19 17:16:49" . "open" . . "DL-Learner Protégé Plugin" . "Protégé (http://protege.stanford.edu) is one of the most common ontology editors for creating and editing terminologies. It is written in Java and has a sophisticated and stable plugin architecture. The aim of the project would be to develop a DL-Learner (also written in Java) plugin for Protégé. DL-Learner is a tool for learning complex class descriptions (see http://dl-learner.org or http://sf.net/projects/dl-learner) and can be useful when constructing or analysing OWL ontologies.\r\n" . "Jens" . "2007-10-19 17:44:57" . "2007-10-19 17:44:57" . "open" . . "Web data integration component" . "Based on a definition of database views and allowed search and filter operations on them this software API component should enable the generation of appropriate RSS/ATOM and JSON feeds, RDF exports and a publication as linked data [1].\r\nThe API should be realized in PHP and work with standard database backends.\r\n\r\n[1] http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/pub/LinkedDataTutorial/" . "soeren" . "2007-10-22 18:42:08" . "2007-10-22 18:42:08" . "open" . . "Tag clouds in faceted search" . "Offering weighted facet names (as tag cloud) surplus to hierarchical faceted search would offer further navigational access.\r\n\r\nIntegrate http://drupal.org/project/tagadelic into http://drupal.org/project/faceted_search !" . "david" . "2007-10-23 18:13:55" . "2007-10-23 18:13:55" . "open" . . "Pidgin Plugin: \"Hide Groups\"" . "Adium has an option labeled \"Show Groups\" in the View menu. When this option is not selected, all online users are displayed in a single uber-group. I would like Pidgin to gain this functionality via a \"Hide Groups\" plugin.\r\n\r\nThe advantage of the \"Hide Groups\" plugin is that when buddies are sorted by availability, the amount of scrolling needed to view all available buddies is reduced." . "cphuntington97" . "2007-10-23 20:22:49" . "2007-10-23 20:22:49" . "open" . . "Cell raytracer (for ps3linux)" . "A, preferably Blender compatible, raytracer using the cell processor used by the Sony PlayStation 3 running on ps3linux. That way the PS3 could be used as an affordable (relative to the price of a PC cabable of the same performance) dedicated render machine." . "jmk" . "2007-10-23 20:36:42" . "2007-10-23 20:36:42" . "open" . . "Paving/Paved areas for Globulation 2" . "

The Problem

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Micro management

\r\nGlobulation 2 claims to reduce micro management and assign tasks automatically. Yet the most unconvenient kind of micro management occurs when it comes to upgrading existant or placing new buildings. One has clear papyrous, wheat or wood (clearable resource) with many actions the same way over and over again for every building near the expanding resources.\r\n

Cheats

\r\nPlanned buildings are initialized as blocking buildings with one hit point. This bares the potential for at least two cheats:\r\n
  • Place buildings all around unit production sites of your enemy so he can't produce a warrior to raise them again. You win as he can't produce units any more.
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  • Repeatedly place buildings in the range of turrets so they waste their ammunition for nothing.
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Construction with paving areas

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  • Buildings can now be ordered on top of clearable resources.
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  • A non blocking virtual building (construction site grafics as is) is shown to represent this task.
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  • The area is turned into paving area shown with an overlay grafix (code for overlay areas grafix exists)
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  • The assigned workers entering the area imediately work on each square they hit.
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  • If needed they clear it (clearing is implemented in some way already).
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  • When the square is cleared they start paving (spinning on top of) it for n time steps.
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  • The paved area is shown with an overlay grafix.
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  • When the whole site is paved, the rest happens like in beta1:\r\n
    • forbidden area for own team.
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    • when free, blocking construction site.
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  • construction.
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Notes

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  • Paved areas should decay to paving areas after m time steps. Construction sites should not be used to pave area and stop working without a blocking site. This will be a different project.
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  • Paved areas block ressources
\r\nPlease have a look at http://www.globulation2.org for details on how to get hands on the code and community contact. People on IRC and ML will be happy to support this project." . "Giszmo" . "2007-10-23 22:05:45" . "2007-10-23 22:05:45" . "open" . . "codec for Quicktime Movie" . "there exists yet only a proprietary codec.\r\nI think, there would be many users, which could need it." . "Alex" . "2007-10-24 01:53:49" . "2007-10-24 01:53:49" . "open" . . "codec for Windows Media Video" . "there exists yet only a proprietary codec.\r\nI think, there would be many users, which could need it." . "Alex" . "2007-10-24 01:56:59" . "2007-10-24 01:56:59" . "open" . . "A Sidebar for Gnome" . "More and more cheap widescreen displays are available. The are good for video and gaming but for internet and office applications it's often to wide. Because of this i think a modular gnome sidebar like the windows vista sidebar will be fine. It could include a messenger, a schedule, e-mail, pictures, a clock and others. So you could use the greater available space on a widescreen display more effective.\r\n\r\nI'm not a programmer but hope there is someone out there who could help." . "Sturmkind" . "2007-10-24 07:53:16" . "2007-10-24 07:53:16" . "open" . . "Geubuntu Gnu - Linux" . "http://www.geubuntu.intilinux.com/Home.html\r\n\r\nGeubuntu is a complete and fully functional operative system based on the popular Linux Distribution Ubuntu. Geubuntu, a project started and designed by the Italian artist Luca D.M. (aka TheDarkMaster) is perfect for any Desktop, Laptop PC or even for a Virtual Machine. Geubuntu mixes the power and simplicity of Ubuntu and parts of the Gnome Desktop with the wonder and astonishing eye-candy of Enlightenment DR17\r\n \r\nGeubuntu will be a new experience for any user trying to run a stand-alone E17 Desktop in the past. To know exactly what Enlightenment is, we suggest you visit the Home Page of the project. On the user side, E17 appears as an incredibly nice looking Desktop Shell, composed of a Window Manager, a full set of libraries, a Desktop and a collection of modules and applications. In this stage, Enlightenment alone is not enough to make you desktop fully functional, and it's strange that so many people are especting Enlightenment to become a full Desktop Environment like Gnome, KDE or XFCE.\r\n \r\nThat's where Geubuntu comes in. Geubuntu completes the missing parts of the E17 Desktop Shell and WM with a certain number of tools and applications from the Gnome Desktop. This is only natural, after all: it would be crazy to believe that E17 should provide a full set of applications based on ETK instead of GTK!\r\n \r\nIn Geubuntu you can find a classic Ubuntu set of applications mixed with those provided and created from and for E17. You'll experience a finally usable and productive Enlightenment 0.17 Desktop!\r\n \r\nPerformance and advantages\r\nEnlightenment is a light weight Desktop Shell, so your computer will run at a very high speed with incredible 2D effects, such as animations, fading, shadows and much more. E17 doesn't need a 3D card for all of its effects to run properly and Xcompmgr is provided by default in Geubuntu for you to try out every composite effect (Like real transparencies and shadows) any time you want to. If you find that Xcompmgr doesn't slow down your computer too much, you can even run it as a startup application in Enlightenment. What's incredible about E17 and Xcompmgr is that since they don't need a 3D video card to run perfectly, you will be able to have an astonishing level of eye-candy even on a relatively old computer and even on a Virtual Machine! Ubuntu alone could never provide such beaty without Compiz and a fully working 3D video card.\r\n \r\nOur Goals\r\nGeubuntu is designed to become a completely community based OS, with the goal of a better and perfect integration between E17 and Gnome. We need programmers, coders, hackers, anyone able to modify certain aspects of this distro so that it can be a better and less confusing User experience. My name is Luca De Marini and I'm an Italian designer, I'm not a coder. Geubuntu is a strong idea I and InTiLinux Projects believe in. We just have to make it blossom even better than how it has done in this first release, Geubuntu 7.04 - Prima Luna. Every new-comer will be welcome, as long as he can help somehow the project! For that reason too, if you’re not a programmer, click on the Contribute link to know how to help Geubuntu aniway." . "darkmaster" . "2007-10-24 09:08:22" . "2007-10-24 09:08:22" . "voting" . . "Easy Synchronization: Windows Mobile to Linux" . "This project aims to solve the synchronization problem between windows mobile PDAs and Linux.\r\n\r\n-) installation using a package manager (.deb, apt, rpm) that handles all dependencies\r\n-) easy configuration (GUI or at least ONE file)\r\n-) stable \r\n\r\nSolutions like SynCE (www.synce.org) are currently much too complicated to set up or even just don't work. The improvement of these, offered as a package (.deb, apt, rpm) would solve thousands of threads in linux forums out there.\r\n\r\nBut I still think that SynCE+OpenSync, especially the support of the SynCE team, is a good point to start." . "PhilChip" . "2007-10-24 10:54:38" . "2007-10-24 10:54:38" . "open" . . "Open Database for Film Information" . "Information about Films are currently not available in a free format. There are websites like imdb, but the information are copyrighted, and you cannot use these information to build your own service.\r\n\r\nThe goal of this project will be, to allow users to contribute to a relational database (contrary to wikipedia, which is not a relational db) to gather film information and relation like who's played in what movie, which company was involved, etc. These information will be licensed under the terms of the CC. A open API will allow anyone to use these information to build there own application.\r\n\r\nOn the long run, this should be extended to other media like music, books, dvds, etc.\r\n\r\nThe first version of the project is already available at http://www.omdb.org/ but we need more people and/or funding, to raise the project to the next level. More information can be found at http://www.omdb.org/content/About\r\n\r\nThe current version is written in rails, the sourcecode is available at http://bugs.omdb.org/\r\n" . "benjamin" . "2007-10-24 11:34:18" . "2007-10-24 11:34:18" . "open" . . "Export preview for GIMP" . "In order to export graphics (e.g. for the Web) it would be nice to have a special export dialog, which would allow to select the export formal, color scheme, compression, scaling etc. When changing these parameters a preview should be shown." . "soa" . "2007-10-24 16:22:01" . "2007-10-24 16:22:01" . "open" . . "Sophisticated GUI for GNU R" . "The GNU R project for statistical computing provides a quite powerful interpreter for the R language. However it lacks a sophisticated GUI which can compete with commercial projects. SciViews is a promising project but it's not compatible with the current version of GNU R." . "Holm" . "2007-10-24 11:49:22" . "2007-10-24 11:49:22" . "open" . . "GIMP auto-update" . "GIMP [1] is an image manipulation program for Linux, Windows, BSD, and other Unixes.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, updating an existing GIMP installation (especially under Windows) still requires several steps: going to the GIMP website, downloading the newest version, installing it.\r\n\r\nAn automatic update feature, as it is for example implemented in Firefox would be very beneficial. Ideally this would also include updating GIMP extensions and plug-ins.\r\n\r\n[1] http://www.gimp.org" . "soeren" . "2007-10-24 16:46:53" . "2007-10-24 16:46:53" . "open" . . "KML Update for the Plug 'n' Play Google Map Plugin for WordPress" . "The WordPress Plugin \"Plug 'n' Play Google Map\" should be able to eat KML URI (e.g. created by Google Maps) and display them on the map. It would be nice to specify KML URI per category too." . "Seebi" . "2007-10-24 17:42:17" . "2007-10-24 17:42:17" . "voting" . . "Eclipse-Plugin for Mercury" . "Mercury [1] is a functional-logical programming language developed at the University of Melbourne. It is quite promising and offers many interesting features. Unfortunately it lacks a modern IDE (in fact there is a syntax highlighting for VIM as well as for emacs). Eclipse [2] is a framework that can be used to develop an IDE for Mercury.\r\n\r\n[1] Mercury: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/\r\n[2] Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org" . "Holm" . "2007-10-24 18:10:13" . "2007-10-24 18:10:13" . "open" . . "KToon: 2D Animation Toolkit" . "KToon is a 2D Animation Toolkit designed by animators (Toonka Films ) for animators, focused to the Cartoon Industry. This project is covered by the GPL License using G++, OpenGL and QT as programming resources from KDevelop as the development platform. \r\nWith an easy-to-use interface and many modules (ilustration, animation, exportation, etc), KToon allows designers to create and to export 2D animations in many kind of formats\r\n(avi, mpeg, swf, etc). \r\nBy now, KToon is only available for Unix systems but we expect to make it works on Windows systems too someday. " . "xtingray" . "2007-10-25 00:51:42" . "2007-10-25 00:51:42" . "open" . . "Wine Cellar Manager - A software for Symbian Smartphones" . "The goal is, to develop a software for Symbian S60 3rd Edition based smartphones which has following capabilities and features:\r\n\r\n- inventory of wine cellar (bottles, quantity, price, source/supplier, taste rating, ...)\r\n- manage the list of wine suppliers and shops (address e.g. from \"Contacts\" application)\r\n- statistical overviews like\r\n - total number of bottles, total value (price) in $ or EUR\r\n - consumption per month (bottles, value (price))\r\n - top ten consumption (which wine runs most)\r\n - top ten best wines (taste rating)\r\n - total number of bottles / value per supplier\r\n - top ten suppliers of my wine cellar inventory\r\n - ...\r\n- shop link: have a link for each wine in the cellar database to the related online shop, where it was bought (if it was bought online :-) to order new stuff from there\r\n- price link: a link for each wine in the cellar database to have a lookup at froogle.com or google.com (the search engine should be changeable/customizable)\r\n- usage of features from the Nokia E90 (wide screen support)\r\n\r\nAdditional must haves:\r\n- software under GNU GPL v2 or v3\r\n- multi-language support, at least German\r\n- programming language should be Python (software can run in source code on any Symbian OS smartphone)\r\n\r\n\r\nSome optional (no really necessary) enhancements:\r\n1) location based services: integration of the phones GPS-module to locate nearest wine supplier (show contact/address, maybe display location on the map) on demand\r\n\r\n2) online wine database integration: possibility to create a connection to an internet based wine databases like Johnson to know, what kind of stuff is in the cellar (click on a wine in the wine cellar manager and have a lookup to the online database to see, what wine it is and how it is rated by Johnson)\r\n\r\n3) portability: due to Python as programming language it should be relative easy to port the software to other plattforms on demand\r\n" . "Hermi" . "2007-10-25 17:43:33" . "2007-10-25 17:43:33" . "open" . . "Free race car model and textures for VDrift" . "- has to be an original idea (free from patent, trademark and copyright violations)\r\n- has to be released at least under a GPLv2 compatible license (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html)\r\n- .blend format or any other free/non-proprietary format suitable for VDrift that we agree upon (needs to be easily editable with Free Software tools and exportable to the JOE format - http://wiki.vdrift.net/JOE_format)\r\n- the donors have to like the style/look of the final product\r\n+- provide some concept art sketches before starting on the project so that the donors can agree on what they will be expecting in the final product.\r\n- type of car (nascar, rally, f1, truck, GT) up to the designer/artist\r\n- it should look like something that would be used in real life races\r\n- suggested polygon count: ~3-10K.\r\n- model the inside and the outside of the vehicle separately\r\n- has to come with at least one skin texture\r\n- suggested texture resolution: at least 512x512\r\n- wheels (should be modelled separately)" . "Plouj" . "2007-10-26 03:56:12" . "2007-10-26 03:56:12" . "open" . . "Crossfade effect for GStreamer" . "A lot of applications nowdays use the GStreamer[1] library for media playback. A crossfade effect is still missing. Audio players like for example rhythmbox[2], amarok[3] and quodlibet[4] could greatly benefit from this feature as some bug reports show [5,6].\r\n\r\nThe aim of this project is a well working crossfade effect functionality which must be shipped with the standard GStreamer Distribution. There is some work done already but nobody is currenly workig on it. [7]\r\n\r\n[1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org\r\n[2] http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox\r\n[3] http://amarok.kde.org\r\n[4] http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/wiki\r\n[5] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102708\r\n[6] http://www.mailarchives.org/list/debian-user/msg/2005/41806 (original ticket lost due to project page breakdown)\r\n[7] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307012" . "trappe" . "2007-10-26 09:22:59" . "2007-10-26 09:22:59" . "open" . . "WYSIWYG-Designer for FO" . "XSL-FO is a standard format to describe document layouts. There are a few open source rendering engines to produce (e.g.) pdf from fo. Unfortunately FO is quite verbose and propably not everybody intends to write documents using XSL-FO. A native FO-Designer would help very much in this case. On the other hand side, a tool to convert from other formats to FO could be an interesting approach as well. A simple idea would be, to create an xslt-file to transform from OpenOffice, MS-Office (xml-Documents) or (my favourite) from Scribus." . "Holm" . "2007-10-26 16:40:33" . "2007-10-26 16:40:33" . "open" . . "Screenful - Opensource Screenreader for the Blind" . "How Screenful was born
\r\nIn the past, there were some people interested in developing a open source screen reader. However, most of the projects were idling or went inactive. Other projects just wrote documentation and concepts about how a screen reader should be, and others had mailing lists which are still active. Thinking that one man alone wouldn’t achieve such a large project, some of the developers thought about concentrating the human resources in to one project. so they contacted those idling and inactive project members as well as other interested programmers on those mailing lists asking them to stick together. And they had success!

\r\n\r\nScreenful philosophy
\r\nWith the idealistic mind that information accessibility is a matter of course and a fundamental human right, we think that the tools to make this possible have to be for free and customizable by the users themselves. We also do not intend to profit from the disabilities of other people.

\r\n\r\nIn an age where open source is growing, we believe that money invested in accessibility software could better be spent on other issues where open source can’t be fulfilled. It is a fact that poorer countries with weak or no social organizational structures have no money for disability issues, therefore blind people have no chance to get adaptive software to give them equal access to computer systems.

\r\n\r\nSince many people still use windows 98, ME, NT, XP and 2003 Screenful will focus its efforts on these versions. We are not thinking of supporting Vista at this time, as it may not propagate as as much as the above operating systems. It is also true that you can’t get the egg without a chicken. As soon as Vista becomes available and the need to support it grows, we will discuss it and decide to support it or not.

\r\n\r\nScrenful will provide following features:
\r\n* Basic core application providing the operating system which brings a small held Installer and main program.
\r\n* Plugin-based directly downloadable from the main application and therefor totally customizeable to fit it to users desires not eating unnecessarily memory.
\r\n* Import/Export function for the user settings so users may save their settings to a file and restore them.
\r\n* Profiles enabling ability for users to define several setting-bundle for diffrent cases.\r\n

\r\nWe are planning to get Screenful as an registry independent portable program. \r\n

\r\nMatter of fact
\r\nWe succeeded in contacting idling projects or mailinglists talking about the need of, but nobody had enough Know-How in Text-to-Speech or Windows Kernel to program our software.

\r\n\r\nThe Project was born but we fail in finding spezialists who would support us. Though i know posted our Project on cofundos hoping to find on this plattform a way to fullfil our Project.

\r\n\r\nOur Homepage on sourceforge.net: http://screenful.sourceforge.net/" . "Maverik" . "2007-10-26 17:23:07" . "2007-10-26 17:23:07" . "open" . . "Boot Windows Vista with LinuxBIOS on real hardware" . "Installation and booting of Windows Vista on real hardware,..\r\n\r\nIt has been done in an emulator (Qemu) but never tried on real hardware so far.\r\n\r\nSee http://linuxbios.org/index.php/Booting_Windows_using_LinuxBIOS\r\n\r\n" . "coresystems" . "2007-10-26 18:52:56" . "2007-10-26 18:52:56" . "open" . . "Topology Support for PostGIS" . "PostGIS spatially enables the PostgreSQL database (it adds GIS functionality).\r\nWhile PostGIS is very powerful already, topology support is still lacking.\r\nKevin Neufeld summarizes the current state on the postgis mailing list:\r\n\r\nhttp://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2007-October/017532.html\r\n\r\nI would be primarily interested in network topology support (line/node structure to\r\nsupport modeling of water/wastewater networks), but other users might look for\r\na more comprehensive solution (including polygon topology)." . "sdteffen" . "2007-10-26 21:42:05" . "2007-10-26 21:42:05" . "open" . . "Tutorial mode for globulation2" . "

Basic concept

\r\nIn glob2 [1] many controls are not as people would expect them from other real time strategy games. This project is intended to provide a system that pops up messages for many actions known to cause trouble. This message pauses the game and provides a link to a wiki page for further information.\r\n

First ideas

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    \r\n
  • inns per worker:if units>10 and inns*10<units then \"build more inns! hungry units refuse to work!\"
    • \r\n
  • hospitals per worker:if gametime > 3min and hospitals*20<units then \"build more hospitals! injured units refuse to work!\"
    • \r\n
  • units working at building:if gametime>3min and noMouseWheelUnitAdjustment then \"you can use the MW to ...\"
    • \r\n
  • MMB-drag used?:
    • \r\n
  • hotkeys used?:
    • \r\n
  • more units clicked than buildings?: hint that this game does not allow to directly control units ...
    • \r\n
  • inn/swarm placed far from wheat?:
    • \r\n
  • narrow passage: 1 wide passage left. forbid it or place building differently to avoid traffic jam
    • \r\n
  • narrow passage after upgrade:
    • \r\n
  • no upgrade possible if placed like that:
    • \r\n
\r\n--
\r\n[1] glob2" . "Giszmo" . "2007-10-27 02:17:03" . "2007-10-27 02:17:03" . "open" . . "Harvesting area brush for Globulation 2" . "

The problem

\r\n\r\nHarvesting[1] in glob2 [2] is micro management. Micro management is what glob2 tries to avoid.\r\n\r\n

Solution

\r\n\r\nTo ease farming, a new kind of area is to be implemented that behaves as follows:
  1. \r\nThe harvesting area is checkered forbidden ((x+y)%2=0 with map coordinates x and y)
  2. \r\nIt can be painted for each kind of regrowing ressource
  3. mouse wheel cycles through all available resources
  4. \r\nIt has a flag-like mechanism requesting one clearer for all other ressources for each 8 units of other ressource times hitpoints of the according ressource (wheat can have 5 \"hp\", papyrus also has more).
\r\n\r\n

Example

\r\nTo harvest wheat in a certain area the player:\r\n
    \r\n
  1. chooses the harvesting area that is a fourth kind of area in the flags/areas menu
    2. \r\n
  2. the brush defaults to what is now the biggest square
    3. \r\n
  3. instead of the brush-size options there appear radio buttons for each regrowing ressource (wheat, wood, algae for now). mousewheel cycles through those. by default the brush is a wheat harvesting brush
    4. \r\n
  4. now when painting no matter how the user paints only even (x+y) fields turn into forbidden fields. (better: this behavior is limited to where growth can take place=near water on gras)
    5. \r\n
  5. workers are requested as described above to clear all that is not wheat. (both clearing flags and clearing areas are not suitable out of the box to do this. mini flags on all fields will request too many workers. clearing areas will not attract any workers as is so they will not work to efficiently expand wheat into where there is wood.)
    6. \r\n
\r\n\r\n

nice to have

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  • barrier farming: checkered for expansion, half-checkered later (if water is plenty)
    • \r\n
  • new grafix
    • \r\n
  • area only where growth can take place: no forbidden area on water for a wheat harvesting area

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links

\r\n[1] http://globulation2.org/wiki/Farming
\r\n[2] http://globulation2.org" . "Giszmo" . "2007-10-27 02:50:15" . "2007-10-27 02:50:15" . "open" . . "Globulation 2 Full Time Programmer" . "The project Globulation 2 is suffering from a lack of work on it. So it is my and the general consensus of the community that a full time programmer should be hired to work on the project.\r\n\r\nThe programmer would have to listen to the demands of both the donators and the community, and be able to put aside personal aspirations in order to achieve what the community desires. The programmer would have to be able to put in at least 40 hours of work per week on the project.\r\n\r\nAreas that need upgrading include the online-play, the map editor and random map generators, general new features like pre-game alliances, improved campaigns, and a large variety of other requested features mentioned on the Wiki, on the forums and on the mailing list.\r\n\r\nThe programmer would need to be able to produce results in a reasonable amount of time. If not, then the donations would be revoked, and perhaps a programmer found, depending on the vote of the donators. Individual donators can add feature requests as part of their donations. " . "genixpro" . "2007-10-27 20:00:08" . "2007-10-27 20:00:08" . "open" . . "VLC video streaming implementation of the BitTorrent or equivalent P2P protocol" . "I'm interested in launching a project for developing a simplified open-source P2P video client based on VLC that runs on Windows, MacOSX and Linux (not necessarily within the official VLC tree, but still under the GNU General Public License) involving strong P2P experts who are already familiar with the VLC technology.\r\n\r\nAs you may know, just recently BitTorrent announced a new service aiming for streaming video programs over the Internet: http://www.textually.org/tv/archives/2007/10/017574.htm .\r\n\r\nThis project tries to resemble the same (perhaps with a different technology?), however, in an open source environment. The project would be financially sponsored by a video content provider who requires such a client for its services while having a great interest in leaving the sources open to the public." . "monsieurgerard" . "2007-10-28 11:33:43" . "2007-10-28 11:33:43" . "voting" . . "Template engine for OntoWiki" . "Implementation and integration of an RDF based template engine for OntoWiki [1].\r\n\r\nOntoWiki is a tool for social, semantic collaboration. It enables communities to create and maintain knowledge bases adhering to the RDF data model (i.e. all knowledge/facts are represented in triples/statements).\r\n\r\nWithin this project an approach for presentation and rendering of RDF as HTML should be developed and integrated into OntoWiki.\r\n\r\n[1] http://ontowiki.net" . "soeren" . "2007-10-29 20:05:57" . "2007-10-29 20:05:57" . "open" . . "Creation of a comprehensive class hierarchy for DBpedia" . "The Wikipedia category system unfortunately is not suitabel to serve as a class hierarchy for DBpedia classes. However, in order to facilitate browsing an querying of DBpedia content, instances should be arranged in a class hierarchy.\r\n\r\nThe aim of this project is to provide (e.g. extract) a suitable class hierarchy and to annotate DBpedia instance accordingly." . "soeren" . "2007-10-29 20:11:27" . "2007-10-29 20:11:27" . "open" . . "OntoWiki / Operator Integration" . "I want to add rdfa data from website with the Firefox Operator Plugin [1] into OntoWiki [2]. This means, OntoWiki needs a rest interface to add tripels to a model and Operator a user script which can connect to OntoWiki.\r\n\r\n[1] http://www.kaply.com/weblog/\r\n[2] http://ontowiki.net\r\n" . "Seebi" . "2007-10-30 17:20:31" . "2007-10-30 17:20:31" . "open" . . "QGIS bugfix" . "The idea is to establish a fund to help fixing annoying bugs for the http://www.qgis.org/ project. Individual donors may set aside a certain amount, and target priority bugs" . "pcav" . "2007-10-31 16:59:48" . "2007-10-31 16:59:48" . "open" . . "C++ OWL API" . "Implement OWL API in C++ based on Raptor.\r\n\r\nIn the end, a C++ interface to at least Fact++ will be provided." . "leechuck" . "2007-10-31 21:19:24" . "2007-10-31 21:19:24" . "open" . . "PBooks" . "Pbooks is an open-source, php-based accounting and bookkeeping system. It is designed for use by small business, and uses the double-entry accounting model. Licensed under the Affero GPL v3, beta versions are available for download today, or you can view a public demo accessible from our website.\r\n\r\nWhile the software is somewhat mature and fully featured, the open-source project is in its infancy as of Q2 2007. " . "albertlash" . "2007-11-01 00:35:56" . "2007-11-01 00:35:56" . "open" . . "OpenLab" . "Open Lap will be an Open Source Laboratory Software for
\r\neasy Control, Measurement and Visualisation.
\r\n\r\nCurrently working are OpenSPS to control things and several
\r\nVisualisation Tools see: http://www.eilers.net/sps/
\r\n\r\nA lot of needed Libraries are already done, like the Hardware Access Layer
\r\nor embeddedable webserver.
\r\n\r\n" . "l_netwalker" . "2007-11-02 01:52:20" . "2007-11-02 01:52:20" . "open" . . "Reloader Program" . "Index:\r\nby gun, by number, by date, by caliber (Also others below - BUTTONS)\r\n[Gun] [Load Number] [Date Loaded] [Caliber]\r\n\r\nGun:\r\n[Manufacturer] [Description] [Serial Number] [Gauge/Caliber] [Scope] \r\n\r\nShell Case/Hull:\r\n[Manufacturer] [Description] [Case Prep] [Case Length] [Brass Type] [Times Loaded] [Number Loaded]\r\n\r\nPrimer:\r\n[Manufacturer] [Description]\r\n\r\nPowder:\r\n[Manufacturer] [Identity] [Lot Number] [Grains] [Mic Setting]\r\n\r\nWad:\r\n[Manufacturer] [Identity] [Description] [Buffer Used]\r\n\r\nShot/Bullet:\r\n[Manufacturer] [Identity] [Lot Number] [Description] [Shot Size] [Weight] [Mould Identity & Number] [Ballistic Coefficient] [Sectional Density] [Gas Seal] [Gas Checks]\r\n\r\nCartridge:\r\n[Crimp] [C.O.L. (Measured at Ogive Tip)] \r\n\r\nLoad Notes:\r\n[Big area to type in Info]\r\n\r\nRange Conditions:\r\n[Date Shot] [Temperature] [Wind Conditions] [Avg. Group Size] [Avg. Velocity] [Std. Deviation]\r\n\r\nAll of the above [Buttons] should have a drop down box that can be added to and used to pick the right answer. The \"Notes\" area should be about 3x6. \r\n\r\nHopefully someone can come up with something like this. I need it, and I am sure there are others that would also.\r\n" . "Grampa" . "2007-11-02 15:30:55" . "2007-11-02 15:30:55" . "open" . . "Line-wrapping for TeXnicCenter" . "TeXnicCenter [1] is a feature rich integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents on Microsoft Windows (Windows 9x/ME, NT/2000/XP) freely available under GPL.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, collaboratively working on TeX documents with using a versioning control system (such as CVS or SVN) can be quite annoying, since either line-wrapping has to be done manually or conflicts are very probable, since merging of the versioning control system works on line basis. An example is, when two people changed two different typos in a large paragraph, this would result in a conflict.\r\n\r\nThe aim of this project is to modify the editing component of TeCnicCenter, so it (optionally) manages line-wrapping within paragraphs. Paragraphs are separated from each other by two (or more) newlines, a single newline does not have any effect for latex and hence can be used inside paragraphs. When I type text inside a paragraph all following (single) newlines should be rearranged thus that, the line-length does not exceed a certain value (e.g. 80 characters). However, the solution should be able to deal with special paragraphs, such as tables, verbatim environment etc, where a rewrapping is undesirable.\r\n\r\nSee also the Cofundos feature request at:\r\n\r\nhttp://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=581675&group_id=36323&atid=416433\r\n\r\n\r\n[1] http://www.toolscenter.org" . "soa" . "2007-11-02 23:45:06" . "2007-11-02 23:45:06" . "open" . . "Content Synchronisation for Thunderbird" . "When you use two Computer, for example a Notebook & Desktop Computer, and download on both emails or would like to have the same data on both sides, it is not possible to sychronize both thunderbird installations.\r\n\r\nBackup & Restore Tools are available bot no Bi-Synchronisation Tools for Thunderbird\r\nIt doesnt matter if it will be realized as Plugin or Stand-Alone Software\r\n\r\n" . "Maverik" . "2007-11-03 16:02:27" . "2007-11-03 16:02:27" . "open" . . "DL-Learner logo as vector graphics" . "Create a vector graphics in SVG format for the DL-Learner logo:\r\nhttp://aksw.org/Projects/DLLearner/files?get=dllearner.gif" . "Jens" . "2007-11-06 11:34:26" . "2007-11-06 11:34:26" . "voting" . . "Language auto-detection for the Thunderbird spell checker" . "Based on the correct/wrong ratio of words of an edited email this Thunderbird extension should select and switch to the most suitable installed dictionary." . "soeren" . "2007-11-06 19:20:16" . "2007-11-06 19:20:16" . "open" . . "Submissions Engine for Drupal" . "We need a module to help our community to participate in public consultation processes.\r\n\r\nSuch system will support two type of submissions:\r\n\r\nOfficial Group Submissions – Created by committee, usually in response to a public consultation. \r\n\r\nand\r\n\r\nAd hoc submissions – Initiated by an individual: a complaint, a suggestion, an opinion, etc.\r\n\r\nSubmissions will include:\r\n\r\n* A summary statement\r\n* A detailed statement (optional)\r\n* Illustrations (pictures and/or maps)\r\n\r\nUsers will be presented with the submissions that are currently on. They will be invited to support the submission by means of:\r\n\r\n1) Creating a personal statement that explain why this issue matters to them.\r\n2) Triggering a process that causes the submission to be sent to the relevant party.\r\n\r\nIn order to participate in a submission, users must:\r\n\r\n- be registered users\r\n- provide their Name, Last Name and Email\r\n- provide their address when required by the situations\r\n" . "CanYouDoThis" . "2007-11-07 02:38:57" . "2007-11-07 02:38:57" . "open" . . "web interface for GTK+" . "I would like to use my loved Linux applications not only at home but also from work and from everywhere where I have an Internet connection. Therefore GTK+ should be extended by a web interface to allow the usage of GTK+ based applications through any HTML compliant web browser. A simple Linux based PC could function as a server. This would create a strong unique selling proposition for Linux and open source applications. It would allow to use GTK+ based applications similar to eyeOS but would not require to rewrite every application in order to use it through the web." . "stefan" . "2007-11-07 22:55:13" . "2007-11-07 22:55:13" . "open" . . "Enhancements for Instant Picture Creator" . "

Instant Picture Creator is a wrapper to produce images on demand for Web sites. It has filter management, and it's possible to add new filters. It can cache filtered images, works independently (no backend is needed), and is easy to integrate with existing Web sites. It includes two basic filters for resizing images and manipulating colour palettes. Currently it supports PNG, GIF, and JPEG. Website

\r\n\r\n

Links:

\r\n" . "Haschek" . "2007-11-12 17:44:34" . "2007-11-12 17:44:34" . "open" . . "Sinapsi. A semantic WordPress" . "

A social/semantic evolution of WordPress platform.

\r\n

Features

\r\n
    \r\n
  • multidimensional (faceted) classification interface that fully adopt categories potentialities, as in facetmap demo;
    • \r\n
  • dynamic admin interface based on Xforms;
    • \r\n
  • full support of Microformats;
    • \r\n
  • default license selector for the whole site, based on Creative Commons WpLicense;\r\n
    • \r\n
  • license selector for each post and page that overrides the default license;
    • \r\n
  • detailed semantic description of authors (persons, individuals), based on Microformats hcard and hresume, published on personal pages with curriculums;
    • \r\n
  • detailed semantic description of works (resources), and author’s portfolios;
    • \r\n
  • detailed semantic description of groups (associations, companies, teams etc.);
    • \r\n
  • detailed semantic description of person<->group relationships, that integrates actual xfn
    • \r\n
  • event semantic description based on the next new version of iCal and event calendar based on Microformats hcal;
    • \r\n
  • multiple languages plugin that affects the whole interface (header, footer, pages, templates, categories, calendar etc.);
    • \r\n
  • language markup based on Iso standard;
    • \r\n
  • different external and internal links management, like Wikipedia and Plone (i.e. W3C and [p=9]);
    • \r\n
  • general social digging page template, for all posts;
    • \r\n
  • category related social digging page template, for specific category/ies;
    • \r\n
  • integrated facetag support;
    • \r\n
  • integrated geolocation for each post, based on GeoPress;
    • \r\n
  • dynamic post quotation (total or partial, <q> or <blockquote>) with xhtml code includes and Ajax;
    • \r\n
  • xhtml strict + css validated code.
    • \r\n
\r\n

Steps

\r\n
    \r\n
  1. We’ll try to use existing WP templates, plugins and widgets, modifying them if necessary and releasing a semantic version (i.e. geolocation->wikimap, locallinks->wordpress wiki, events->EventCalendar3, Semantic MediaWiki, SemanticForms).
    2. \r\n
  2. We’ll use WordPress custom fields and some markup to enter attributes and relations directly into text. These attributes are then stored as custom values and can also be viewed, changed, made as such.
    3. \r\n
  3. We can display a rdf box below each post, using the attributes and relations defined within the post. Also all standard wordpress information (author date etc.) can be used in this rdf.
    4. \r\n
  4. We’ll make an interface for these custom value relations and attributes that resides in the edit-post page. This interface would be more informative and easier to understand than the (coded) custom value pairs.
    5. \r\n
  5. We’ll implement a way of listing posts using attributes and relations (queries) and a way of searching using these semantics.
    6. \r\n
\r\n" . "lorenzodetomasi" . "2007-11-13 10:25:54" . "2007-11-13 10:25:54" . "open" . . "Tennis game for Symbian S60v3 using Wiimote" . "Id' dlike to see tennis or similar games using the Wiimote for S60v3 handsets like the Nokia N95.\r\n\r\nThat's what I mean:\r\n\r\nhttp://www.symbianresources.com/projects/wiirider.php" . "hawky" . "2007-11-24 21:07:52" . "2007-11-24 21:07:52" . "open" . . "Use Open Source software to run 100% net profit to charity business that rewards innovation and progress in a sustainable way" . " Use Open Source software to run 100% net profit to charity business that rewards innovation and progress in a sustainable way.\r\n\r\n\r\nI am very interested in collaborating with programmers who are interested in doing this. I have an educational, design and promotion background and a passion for progressive business that benefits everyone.\r\n\r\n1. Make facebook app\r\n2 Make mobile phone software\r\n3...\r\n\r\nLets meet up in London before Christmas to to work out where we can go from here.\r\nIll be out in the evening of 4th and 5th Dec in Shepard's Bush if you want to meet up.\r\n\r\nI would love to work with open source projects to help them\r\nachieve their potential (gaining users from the business model below)\r\n\r\n\r\nOS projects could benefit from the goodwill\r\ngenerated and efficiency increased by embracing this www.traidmark.org\r\n100% net profit donation to charity business model that enables your\r\nexciting work to generate profit from its activities (and ofshoots from\r\nthem) for everyones gain.\r\n\r\n\r\nExplained in more detail here\r\npart1\r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp4xiNqWGe8\r\n\r\npart 2\r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAoxXegFhqY\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMaybe you could be able to implement the www.traidmark.org\r\n(100% net profit donation to 'efficient' charities business model for\r\neveryone's gain) business model on your organisation?\r\n\r\nThis would...\r\n\r\n1 create funds for charity\r\n2 make charity more 'efficient'\r\n3 boost your companies success rate with added goodwill\r\n4 enable people who created your project to get rewarded financially\r\nthough performance pay while creating an organisation that is able to\r\nprovide a platform for goodwill collaboration where everyone is rewarded\r\nfor their hard/clever work knowing that all benefits go towards 'good\r\ncauses':)\r\n\r\n\r\nIf this is possible I would love to work with you.\r\n\r\n\r\nI am passionate about using new techniques and technology in creative\r\nways to enhance civilization through innovation and am very interested\r\nin helping utilise the potential of what you are doing.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEd Whyman\r\n\r\n\r\nwww.traidmark.org\r\n\r\nwww.whymandesign.com\r\n\r\nThis email and any attachments are confidential.\r\nYou may not use any information contained in this email or attachments\r\nwithout permission. edwhyman@gmail.com " . "traidmark.org" . "2007-11-26 21:52:15" . "2007-11-26 21:52:15" . "open" . . "Add support for for MTP devices to Indiana (OpenSolaris)" . "Many newer MP3 playback devices are using an extension to Picture Transfer\r\nProtocol (PTP); ISO 15740, called Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). MTP was\r\ndeveloped by Microsoft as a set of extensions to PTP. Currently the USB\r\nImplementers Forum is working on implementing MTP as a peer device class to\r\nothers such as USB mass storage.\r\nRhythmbox when installed on various Linux based platforms, such as Ubuntu 7.10,\r\nimplements a library called libmtp which handles connectivity with these\r\ndevices. This library is lacking in Solaris which takes away the ability for\r\nRhythmbox to handle these devices.\r\n\r\nPlease see the RFE for further details: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=257" . "che" . "2007-11-30 10:16:15" . "2007-11-30 10:16:15" . "open" . . "SPARQL wrapper for Amazon's SimpleDB" . "Amazon recently released a complementary service to their S3 and EC2 offerings called SimpleDB. SimpleDB works pretty much like a RDF triple store minus the requirement to use URIs. Hence it should be quite straightforward to implement a SPARQL wrapper for SimpleDB in PHP.\r\n\r\nRAP [2] already contains a SPARQL parser, which can be easily reused for this project.\r\n\r\n[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=342335011\r\n[2] http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/rdfapi/" . "soeren" . "2007-12-14 21:50:28" . "2007-12-14 21:50:28" . "open" . . "XSane backend driver for HP G4050" . "Actually there is no xsane backend driver for the HP Scanjet G4050 available.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-mfgs-cvs.html#Z-HEWLETT-PACKARD\r\n\r\nIt's essential that if this project is realised the source goes back upstream into the official sane backend. Then it would be usable by everyone :)\r\n\r\nhttp://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html" . "glua" . "2007-12-19 14:08:11" . "2007-12-19 14:08:11" . "open" . . "Extension of COfundOS that identifies newsgroups from tags and posts a text to attract bidders and developers" . "1) Function in COfundOS that identifies newsgroups and other targets from the tags that describes a project. The target list should be editable by hand; additional targets could be inserted and the automatic function could use this for an iterative search to new targets\r\n\r\n2) Template text that describes COfundOS with slots where the description of a specific project can filled in (by hand or automatic)\r\n\r\n3) Function in COfundOS that posts the filled template text automatic to the selected newsgroups and other targets to inform and attract bidders and developers\r\n\r\n4) If project changes were made, the posting should be repeated with an adapted filled template text\r\n\r\n" . "guba" . "2007-11-28 14:29:11" . "2007-11-28 14:29:11" . "open" . . "mono-runtime and gtk-sharp2 (and required) packages for OpenWrt" . "

It would be nice to have a clean mono-runtime package including gtk-sharp2 (and libgdiplus) for OpenWrt kamikaze, to run c#/gtk2 bytecode.

\r\n

X11 and most required libraries are already part of OpenWrts package repository. The package should at least be available for the x86-2.6 target.

\r\n\r\n

Links:

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    \r\n
  • OpenWrt: http://www.openwrt.org
    • \r\n
  • OpenWrt dev: http://dev.openwrt.org/
    • \r\n
  • mono: http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
    • \r\n
  • cross compile hints: http://www.openembedded.org/repo/org.openembedded.dev/packages/mono/README
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\r\n" . "fabiand" . "2007-11-28 17:09:57" . "2007-11-28 17:09:57" . "open" . . "Nautilus+Unison to remote and local synchronization" . "Integrate unison on nautilus, on a transparent way. User should be able to right click a folder, select \"sync\", and then choose the remote medium, just like it's done on unison.\r\n\r\nUser should also mark a sync schedule option when configuring the sync (sync each day, sync each 2 days, sync on sundays, etc.)\r\n\r\nfolders with are synced would appear with a different mini-icon (maybe a mirror drawing, or a networking image or something like). When right clicked, the user should be able to select \"configure sync\" and edit the sync options (schedule, and remote location, conflicts, everything from unison)\r\n\r\nNautilus should have a \"synced folders\" tab on the preference settings, where the user can edit the profiles and view the current synced folders, much like one can do using unison.\r\n\r\nThe Nautilus File Manager is a part of Gnome : http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/\r\nAnd the Unison file synchronizer tool : http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/" . "wladston" . "2007-11-28 19:26:22" . "2007-11-28 19:26:22" . "open" . . "Self-installing binary release of current ImageMagick with PerlMagick for Debian variants like Ubuntu " . "Unix variants of current ImageMagick 6.3.7-x (with PerlMagick !) are only available for\r\n(http://imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php): \r\n- Fedora Core 7 i386 RPM\r\n- Fedora Core 7 x86_64 RPM\r\n- Solaris Sparc 2.10\r\n- FreeBSD 6.2\r\n- Cygwin\r\n\r\nThis excludes all the Debian variants like the widespread Ubuntu where only older self-installing ImageMagick versions (6.2.x) are available\r\n" . "guba" . "2007-11-29 11:22:28" . "2007-11-29 11:22:28" . "development" . . "Unison. improve unicode support." . "With \"Unison\", you can synchronize a directory between two machines, even between different operating systems.
\r\nHowever, synchronizing a directory between MsWindows XP (using NTFS or FAT) and Linux/MacOSX using unison, does not work when a filename contains a special character.
\r\nI am not quite sure, but it can be due to this known bug:
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\r\nFrom: https://svn.cis.upenn.edu/svnroot/unison/trunk/src/BUGS.txt
\r\n[July 2002] Unison does not understand Windows' non-Latin character set encodings. For some other character sets (e.g. European characters such as u-umlaut), only the display is affected. For character sets that use multi-byte encoding schemes (e.g. Japanese), Unison can actually get confused and synchronize incorrectly. (One case where this can happen is if the second byte of a two-byte character is actually a slash!)
\r\n ==> This would be hard to fix, given OCaml's current poor support for localization. Jacques Garrigue made some suggestions (bcp has them in a mail message) that might be the basis for looking at this if someone is really motivated, but they look like real work.
\r\n ==> The right think to do is to use the Windows Unicode API
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\r\nI guess that there are more people out there that cannot currently use Unison because of this problem.
\r\nThis project consists in fixing this bug correctly, so that the developers of Unison accept your patch in their new official release.\r\n" . "dportabella" . "2008-01-02 14:29:09" . "2008-01-02 14:29:09" . "development" . . "Airsnort for OpenWRT \"White Russian\"" . "We need a port of a tool to intrude into WEP-key encrypted WLAN networks.\r\n\r\nOpenWRT an own Linux distribution for Router devices, inclouding WLAN routers. Those WLAN-Routers can also be configgured as WLAN-clients, which listen to 802.11 masters. Works fine, but we need an extension vor scientiffic purposes: A tool, that sniffs 802.11 netoworks and tries to decrypt those encrpyted with WEP.\r\n\r\nReference platform will be: Asus Deluxe WL 500\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAsus: http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Asus/WL500GD" . "skappaflow" . "2007-12-27 17:12:08" . "2007-12-27 17:12:08" . "open" . . "Linux version of ScreenweaverHX" . "ScreenweaverHX is a piece of software to create haXe based desktop applications. Tipically applications would be written in Flash as ScreenweaverHX can wrap the Flash player extending its capabilities to add features such as:\r\n\r\n- Writing and reading files to the hard disk.\r\n- Accessing registry in Windows.\r\n- Accesing SQLLite databases.\r\n- And many more...\r\n\r\nScreenweaverHX is similar to other proprietary products such as MDM Zinc or Adobe AIR. However, SWHX is way more flexible due to being Open Source.\r\n\r\nScreenweaverHX is strongly based on haXe (an open source language targeting Flash, JS and server side) and Neko.\r\n\r\nThe goal would be a working version of ScreenweaverHX for Linux.\r\n\r\nhttp://haxe.org/\r\nhttp://haxe.org/swhx/\r\nhttp://nekovm.org/" . "Zarate" . "2008-01-10 00:25:31" . "2008-01-10 00:25:31" . "open" . . "Serial Spaceball Support" . "Succinct summary / definition of success: I can plug an old serial based Spaceball (e.g. a model 5000 serial) into a Windows XP computer and use the spaceball with Blender 3D and/or Wings 3D via either new open drivers, or via the manufacturer's current USB drivers. Bonus would be to have an SDK for reading the input from such devices in various programming languages so people can easily make use of those input devices in their programs.\r\n\r\nNon-USB-HID Spaceballs (see http://tinyurl.com/2y2o8u for examples of the model 5000, just one of several older variants) are no longer really supported by the manufacturers. It would be neat to either:\r\n\r\n
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  • develop open source HID compliant drivers for the old serial hardware, for Linux and Windows, and maybe even Mac OS
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  • develop a hardware dongle which would support various serial devices and convert them into USB HID for use with modern drivers
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  • clearly document a working solution using already-existing systems (see project references below)
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\r\n\r\nSee also:\r\n\r\n\r\n" . "raould" . "2008-01-10 00:49:17" . "2008-01-10 00:49:17" . "open" . . "Internet anonymization" . "An open (and thus code-review-able) version of commercial anonymization systems. \r\n\r\nExamples:\r\n\r\n\r\nBonus would be to make use of already existing open source systems\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n...but to develop a complete package along the lines of Anonymizer. A key aspect is the usability of the system; it must have a standard installer so that it is as \"easy\" to set up as Anonymizer.\r\n" . "raould" . "2008-01-10 07:49:54" . "2008-01-10 07:49:54" . "open" . . "Pidgin Voice & Video" . "This project is about implementing Voice and Video support for all major protocols (ICQ, MSN, Jabber, etc) in Pidgin/libpurple.\r\n\r\nPidgin Web Site: http://pidgin.im\r\nBug Report: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/34" . "i-nZ" . "2008-01-12 19:36:26" . "2008-01-12 19:36:26" . "open" . . "Highly confrigurable and modularized home automation system" . "There are many very professional and very complex home- and house-automation systems on the market on which you can spend several thousand dollars. They come to your home, install their system with their hardware specifically fitted to your home. You are unable to change or extend anything.\r\n\r\nThere are some open source solutions (like mister house) for home automation. But all I found are very isolated solutions, e.g. you are only able to control X10-devices.\r\n\r\nI imagine some kind of home-automation-server that can be extended in terms of in- and output. Users should be able to 'attach' control-modules for X10, for 1-wire, ip-based solutions, etc. or simply write their own modules, when they built their own hardware.\r\nThere should be modules for user-interaction, web interfaces, pda-compatible interfaces, phone-controlled stuff, etc.\r\n\r\nIt should definitely involve other OS-projects (if needed), like asterisk for phone-control, owfs for 1-wire, there are so many great things out there.\r\n\r\nAs you can see, there are so many things you have to think of before you start a project like this. Please tell me what you think of it and please tell me what a home automation system should do for you to fit your needs.\r\n\r\nClassic appliances are stuff like lighting-control (switching the living room to comfortable-mood, close the curtains and open them in the morning) watch room-temperatures and regulate heating/ventilation accordingly, audio and video stuff, security (alerts and intrusion detection) and making you some coffee in the morning." . "foo.gard" . "2008-01-22 22:04:15" . "2008-01-22 22:04:15" . "open" . . "Copy and paste" . "Hi.\r\nI use mIRC and other IM and in mIRC I can copy by marking and realeasing the left mouse button.\r\n\r\nI want to have that option to copy a marked text when I realease left mouse button in general.\r\n\r\nIs it interesting?\r\n\r\nMagi " . "Magi" . "2008-01-28 17:13:53" . "2008-01-28 17:13:53" . "open" . . "True PDF handling in Scribus" . "

Motivation

\r\nCurrently, PDF/PS import in Scribus is possible through image frames. However, when exporting a Scribus file as PDF the imported PDFs get rasterized thus colors are changed, text is rastered, links are lost, file size increases because of large bitmap image etc. Therefore the Swiss Open Systems User Group /ch/open sponsors CHF 2000 for implementation of the following requirements by April 30st, 2008 within the official SVN repository:\r\n\r\n

Requirements

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  • Import of PDF file: Selection which page is imported
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  • Scaling: The imported PDF page can be scaled
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  • Cropping: The imported PDF page can be cropped
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  • Exporting of Scribus file as PDF: The imported PDF page's colors (RGB and CMYK), vector elements, texts including their font, links etc. are preserved
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  • User friendly GUI: Handling of the imported PDF should be tightly integrated in the existing user interface


" . "maemst" . "2008-02-02 15:09:12" . "2008-02-02 15:09:12" . "development" . . "Implementing OpenSocial Container API in www.faircompanies.com" . "faircompanies is a community and news center with info, videos and other resources regarding sustainability in its broad sense.\r\n\r\nWe were wondering about how to integrate the best way the OpenSocial container API in www.faircompanies.com." . "nicolas.boullosa" . "2008-02-06 23:28:00" . "2008-02-06 23:28:00" . "open" . . "Greasemonkey: Follow-up Reminder for Gmail" . "I have a lot of relationships to manage, with too many people across too many unrelated projects. I want to be able to tell Gmail to keep track of a contact, regarding how often that contact responds to me. I want Gmail to remind me when I need to send them another email, so that I don't forget to move the project forward.\r\n\r\nThis Greasemonkey extension should use a spaced-repetition algorithm. In other words, it has an interval for how long my email can go unanswered before it will remind me to send another email to that person. At first the interval is two weeks, but every time the interval passes without a response, it gets shorter. Eventually it is two days in a row, and then it gives up on that person. If they respond, the extention detects this and makes the interval longer.\r\n\r\nThe extension should also have a feature that lets me tell the extension the person answered me through some method other than email." . "Matt_Arnold" . "2008-02-10 07:33:28" . "2008-02-10 07:33:28" . "open" . . "Update Semantic Layers MediaWiki extension to work with SMW 1.0" . "The Semantic Layers MediaWiki extension, which lets wikis display map or other coordinate data using OpenLayers and Semantic MediaWIki (SMW), currently works only with SMW 0.7, and not with the latest version of SMW (1.0+). This project would add support for SMW 1.0, using the new API for data access." . "Yaron Koren" . "2008-02-13 19:58:50" . "2008-02-13 19:58:50" . "open" . . "Forms support for Semantic Layers MediaWiki extension" . "The Semantic Layers MediaWiki extension could allow for an OpenLayers map input within wiki forms, using the Semantic Forms extension and its hooks (see here for how such hooks are defined). This would allow Semantic Layers to be used for both displaying and entering graphical/map data." . "Yaron Koren" . "2008-02-13 20:13:52" . "2008-02-13 20:13:52" . "open" . . "Display of multiple points in Semantic Google Maps MediaWiki extension" . "The Semantic Google Maps currently displays only one point at a time. This project would add on the ability to display a whole set of points on a single Google Map that fit some set of semantic queries, using a parser function similar to Semantic MediaWiki's #ask function (or, more relevantly, Semantic Layers' #slmap function)." . "Yaron Koren" . "2008-02-13 20:26:30" . "2008-02-13 20:26:30" . "open" . . "API for editing of structured data in MediaWiki pages" . "

This project would create an API (similar in spirit to MediaWiki's existing API) that would let users remotely edit the structured data, i.e. the data contained within templates, in a wiki's pages. This API would approach pages in the same way that the Semantic Forms extension does: as well-defined objects with specific field names and types; it might also use of some of the same code as Semantic Forms. It could also make heavy use of the Page Object Model extension, and any API built around that.

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Since more information was requested on this project: here is some pseudo-code for how this API could be used to add a page for the city of Tirana to some wiki that contains city information. The assumption that I've made here is that this API would actually use Semantic Forms' own forms to to specify the structure of a \"class\" (in this case, a city), in order to do type-checking and other validation. Here's the code:

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\r\n # main URL of the wiki in question
\r\nwiki_url = \"http://...\"
\r\n# read and parse the contents of a wiki form definition
\r\ncity_form = new Form(wiki_url, \"City\")
\r\n# create an object to represent a new city
\r\ntirana = city_form.createPage(\"Tirana\")
\r\n# all data on a page is stored in templates, and their fields
\r\ntirana.templates[\"CityMain\"].fields[\"Population\"] = 944000
\r\n# another example of a field
\r\ntirana.templates[\"CityMain\"].fields[\"Country\"] = \"Albania\"
\r\n# all three of the following calls would return error messages:
\r\n# tirana.templates[\"ABC\"].fields[\"Population\"] = 1 # form contains no such template
\r\n# tirana.templates[\"CityMain\"].fields[\"XYZ\"] = 5 # template contains no such field
\r\n# tirana.templates[\"CityMain\"].fields[\"Population\"] = \"One thousand\" # incorrect type for field
\r\n# finally, through an already logged-in user account, save the page on the wiki
\r\njoe_user.savePage(tirana)
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These calls would be wrappers; just like MediaWiki's API, the actual actions would be done through the query string of some URL on the wiki.

" . "Yaron Koren" . "2008-02-13 20:47:46" . "2008-02-13 20:47:46" . "open" . . "Contacts invitation feature for Elgg" . "Elgg [1] is a very popular open-source social networking platform. Although currently already widely used and deployed Elgg lacks some features known from other social network sites.\r\n\r\nThe aim of this project is to develop a contacts invitation facility. Registered Elgg users should be enabled to upload vCards, CSV or PST (Outlook) files, which are parsed for names and emails and the resulting list is exposed to the Elgg user for selecting contacts to which invitations should be sent.\r\n\r\nThe easiest way to implement this Elgg feature/plugin is by incorporating the Plaxo Address Book widget [2].\r\n\r\n[1] http://elgg.org\r\n[2] http://www.plaxo.com/api/widget?src=ab_chooser" . "soeren" . "2008-02-14 22:23:59" . "2008-02-14 22:23:59" . "open" . . "Thunderbird & Nokia Symbian Phone Synchronisation" . "I found a plugin for Thunderbird but the developer sems not to continue development: Nokia Synchronization:
\r\nhttps://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/4075\r\n

\r\nMotivation? Continue Development for Nokia Symbian Phone Support" . "Maverik" . "2008-02-22 23:19:59" . "2008-02-22 23:19:59" . "open" . . "UGCunion" . "UGCunion\r\n\r\n\r\nUGCunion.org\r\n\r\n\r\n'''UGCunion'''\r\nis an evolving voluntary media organisation that uses existing social platforms to facilitation innovation and positive change (growing from this page) that empowers users to generate content that addresses socia