Tim Perdue, the original developer of SourceForge , is back again working with a fork of the original code alexandria (?) to build GForge . No new code had been released since VA made SourceForge a closed source project even though they had originally said they would be releasing some of it. With GForge back who cares! It certainly sounds interesting enough.
Definitely better suited for organisations than SourceForge, which was hacked to handle the load of 500,000+ users. Also the integration with MailMan, Jabber and Python sounds interesting! Definitely, a cool environment for any development house.
A master's thesis on a Framework for Open Source Projects by Gregor J. Rothfuss. Just scanned through, guess I need to read it later when I get some time!
I couldn't believe that an archieve of satellite pictures of the earth was available. Certainly, not in so many formats and free!
A kilometer resolution, not bad at all. I am certain a lot of usefull applications can be built with this.
http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.html.
I just found an interesting p2p application today. Well, it hasn't really been built yet but it should be pretty interesting to build it. It is still in the design phase, but quite a nice discussion has already started.
Want to get involved? Check it out at Treepy .
With Mozilla being open source, it certainly has allowed a lot of people to go out and make their own version of the browser. Galeon is certainly one nice example. Another cool one seems to be Ghostzilla . Quite a nice browser. It allows you to browser the net using other applications as the frame. The effect is that others can not see what you are really doing. Certainly, browsing the net from Visual C++ window is cool. Great stuff for your work!
Coming from a Java I always found the GUI frameworks in Python not really that exciting. The MVC of Swing was pretty much what I was looking for. Guess that is one of the main reasons I prefered Jython . Of course, had read about Qt and was seriously interested in it, but the license, hmm. wxWindows was there but didn't bother as I am not really happy with callback for event handling.
Now, I have found a new one, Kiwi. Claims to provide an MVC architecture like Swing and Smalltalk. Definitely, need to check it out. Looks like a nice one. Based on PyGTK and can use Glade for building the UI. Definitely, in my list of possible options.