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TikiWiki est une solution de blog/wiki Open Source qui peut compter sur une communauté d'utilisateurs et de développeurs particulièrement étendue

I'm starting a serie of articles on extending 0xtob's XM module player on the nintendo DS with more effects. -- Une petite série d'articles où j'ajoute le support de différents effets (portamento, vibrato, tempo/speed, etc.) à la bibliothèque libntxm sur nintendo DS

Tobias Schlitt posted an interesting list of rules on how to get started in an open source project. This got me immediately thinking about an interesting trend I've observed since I dipped my finger in the open source well. Often, helpful tips on what to do when joining a project are provided by experienced open source developers for the newbies, in the effort to make things easier for all. However, even more important, in my view, is how an existing open source project reacts to an influx of new users. Do we chide them for lack of knowledge? Set up a mesh of obscure unspoken rules? How about yelling RTFM triumphantly? Marking a bug as bogus with a sarcastic joke? I am personally guilty of all of the above in my time. What surprises me in retrospect is that I didn't really recognize the point where I crossed the line from simply contributing to an open source project to when I started running it. The fact is, when you don't have the karma (to borrow Toby's definition), nobody cares if you make a little joke here or there. Once you are a representative of a project, what you say and do matters, and things can get blown all out of proportion. So, here are a few rules for people "with the karma" that I've learned. You might be thinking "I don't run an open source project" but in many cases, you become a representative (and therefore one of the people who run it) of the project the instant you achieve enough karma to commit code to CVS, so this post applies to just about all of us!

Gallina: just a GMail based blog :-) (Proof of concept)

Loudblog is a sleek and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for publishing media content on the web. It automatically generates a skinnable website and an RSS-Feed for Podcasting. Just upload your audio/video files, add some notes and links, and you’re done!

LifeType is an open-source blogging platform with support for multiple blogs and users in a single installation.

Toute l'information sur la visioconférence, la VoIP , les solutions de streaming, le Wifi, les softphones, skype et les nouvelles technologies.

OPAC sous Word Press : le WPOpac ça tue

SuiteTwo est tout simplement une suite de services 2.0. On y retrouve Six Apart (blogs), SocialText (wikis), NewsGator (Lecteur RSS), SimpleFeed (Liens), SpikeSource (solutions open source pour les entreprises), et surement d'autres d'ici peu... Un service qui va surement se démocratiser...

Dean Lee's life and Technology reviews