I told people that if they sent in their "Hot, New OSS projects just to me, I would tally them up and send them out again.
I thank you all for your recommendations. Here they are below. I tried to take out duplicates, and those answers that were sent to the entire mailing list I have left out, since you already saw them. I submitted a blog entry using some (but not all) of your "Hot New" ideas, and as soon as I get a URL for it, I will pass that past you also. In the meantime, you can enjoy looking up the "Hot New" items you are not familiar with. md ======================================================================================== >RepRap. It's definition of 'new' is up for debate, but it really took >off in 2009. > handbrake - convert DVDs to just about any media format > xbmc - once you have your DVDs ripped, you need something to play them > on. XBMC and a $199 nettop makes a very useful set top box > virtualbox - for when you absolutely, positively, need access to > Windows (or want to test the next Ubuntu release) > > Personally I'm most interested in OLSR and adding wifi to everything > right now with OpenWRT (which is an *old* project, but getting things > more and more right now). pfSense, and ZFS are selling hardware for > me. Again, leading indicators vs. production-ready, I think. > > I installed a distro called Jolicloud on my wife's netbook on Friday. > Lots of geeks are talking about it. > >replicatorg (which drives the MakerBot) is both somewhat new, and >seems pretty hot to me. > I think OpenStreetMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org/) has the > potential to be "the next Wikipedia". The project itself is not "new" > per se, but it's only recently been getting US press attention. In > all the talk of Free Software, I think the concept of "Free Content" > sometimes gets lost, but the information we process is at least as > important as the software which processes it. So I think OSM deserves > honorable mention, if nothing else. Plus OSM does have some really > cool software associated with it. :) >Far from New, but seriously HOT: WordPress.org >Not really new, but showing serious HOTness: >http://www.sahana.lk/ >Did you know that Facebook was Open Source? >http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php >This project could never gets enough press, IMHO. =) >http://www.arduino.cc/ >ARM based netbooks, tablets, servers, etc. >Because Windows and its apps cannot go there. >Look into the WebGL related projects and the >implications for OpenGL in browsers vs Flash >vs Silverlight, etc. >Newest perl web frameworks in public bakeoff >http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/40292 >Databases aren't just for sql/relational anymore. >(Or rather for us graybeards, again. Once more around the great wheel >of progress.) >http://blogs.the451group.com/information_management/2010/03/15/categorizing-the-foo-fighters-making-sense-of-nosql/ >lots of options there. >http://www.scribblethink.org/Work/VisualIDs > http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/VisualIDs > http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/chronicle/VisualIDs > StatusNet <http://status.net/>, > > OneSocialWeb <http://onesocialweb.org/> > <http://ralphm.net/publications/berlin_2007/> > Actually OpenSocialWeb is built on top of Jabber. > > > * Lemote's Yeeloong & Lynloong <http://lemote.com/en/> are low-priced > > laptop and desktop computers (respectively) that ship running > only FOSS--all the way down to the boot PROMs. > > * Qi Hardware's Nanonote <http://www.sharism.cc/>, which is looking > more and more like the thing to replace my last-generation ("last" > as in "terminal", not "most recent") `open iPod'. > > * The Pandora <http://www.openpandora.org/>, dispelling the myth > that Linux and FOSS don't make for good gaming. Open hardware, > too! > > * The Touchbook <http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/>: > an entirely-FOSS (and open hardware, too) tablet computing > device (`like the iPad', but better...), with an optional > module that turns it into a netbook. > > * Sugar on a Stick: as Caroline Meeks explained at Durham, > contrary to popular belief, Sugar/OLPC deployments that > actually approached or attained the intended "one per" have > been extremely successful, with some prime examples > throughout South America (Uraguay & Peru topping the list) > and a few in the USA (e.g.: Birmingham, AL). and > SoaS is... everything that we talked about at that meeting :) > > > * The WikiReader <http://thewikireader.com/> > > (& http://github.com/wikireader) > > > http://linuxagainstpoverty.org/ > > http://www.heliosinitiative.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
