In 2002, a major survey was performed to free/open source software developers. With over 2500 respondants, it had a major impact in community, academia and even politics. Since then, many things have changed, among others, the ecosystem that has fluorished around open source mobile operative systems. In 2013, we want to recreate the survey with the goal of seeing how the community is nowadays and how it has changed.
If you are a contributor of any type (not only a developer!) to an open source project, we encourage you to participate in the survey. It takes around 10-15 minutes:
Visit the website: floss2013.libresoft.es
We would also be grateful if you disseminate this announcement among your community and peers. In our website you can find more information about the survey, including privacy, results, authors and publications.
Thanks!
Laura Arjona Reina, on behalf of the FLOSS2013 team
floss2013 at libresoft.es
@FlossSurvey2013
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Dear fellow Android users,
Soon, we'll be launching "Our History of the World", and we’d like you to take part - we are looking for early beta testers.
OHOW is a new community project that allows everyone to contribute to world history. Our world, our experiences, our history. OHOW uses geo-location to capture and search history, and is brought to you by the team behind Loccit.com - so we will hopefully be integrating Loccit's cross-social-platform technology into OHOW.
For too long, history has been written by politicians and academics, now, the rest of us, the 99% that actually create the history, can start democratically reporting what is really happening. We want a truthful and accurate record of regular folks passed on to future generations.
OHOW is a community-driven project, and as a member of this community you can expect a real say in the features and design of the app as it continues to evolve. We are planning to make OHOW open-source before too long.
=== COMPETITION: For those of you who get stuck in, we're running a competition whereby you win a free Photobook of your memories if you capture 100 moments (using photos from your computer or Facebook). ====
To download the app directly from: www (dot) ourhistoryoftheworld (dot) com (slash) beta
OHOW runs on Android 2.1+.
For bugs, feedback, queries email me at feedback (at) ourhistoryoftheworld (dot) com
Ben Blamey,
Lead Developer, The OHOW Team
Hi xda community.
this it my first post showing an interesant campaign.
We are four young developers trying to raise money so we can spend all our time building Ares4droid; an open source p2p client for Android that will get access to p2p ares galaxy network.
The Ares Galaxy source code is free so, we only have to code it on Android Platform. What we need is the time it takes to create a elegant mobile version of this software. We are all ready to work for six months totally focused on building Ares4droid. We want to spend all our time writing code to give you a great piece of software. We are going to release our code as free software so everyone can make Ares4droid even better.
Now, we give us any donation in money or promulgate the project idea with the facebook and twitter buttons placed into the project page, for more information about the project visit us.
w.w.w.indiegogo.com/Ares4droid
thank you for read this post, and you can support us in the cause :highfive:
Automatic news summary from many sources on smartphones!
How would it seem to you having automatically on your smartphone a single summary of the news from multiple sources? Unbelievable? Yet, now it seems that not only can it go into practice, but it is also offered freely to all so as to become a part of our everyday life! Its name: NewSum!
Who does it?
SciFY, a not-for-profit organisation which develops cutting-edge information technology to solve real life problems and offers it freely to all, including all design, implementation details and support needed.
What is NewSum?
A really innovative application, NewSum that automatically summarizes information from many sources and combines them in a single text! It is an intelligent summary of all the different information that you would get if you read all the articles from all the sources you visit (or that you would like to have time to visit...). With the use of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology, news are summarised and all repeated information is not duplicated. All these in a user friendly, tested and effective application.
Why do they do it?
As SciFY puts it: "The goal of this project is to reinforce pluralism in news coverage. Think about it: How can you get the whole picture in your areas of interest, fast? Up to now, in order to be well-informed about what you really want to, you were obliged to visit at least 2-3 different sites/blogs and spend valuable time reading news that are by 80% the same… Newsfeeds, news aggregators are not real solutions: They just group articles, but you still have to do the rest of the job, since you have to visit all the different sources in order to get the information you need (when / if you have the time!). NewSum is on the way to change all this..."
Why is it important to help NewSum?
Indicatively:
it is offered freely to all using open source code and all the support needed.
it promotes pluralism in news coverage by using cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology.
it is developed by an not-for-profit organisation by young volunteers - entrepreneurs.
How you can help in this phase?
The first version is soon to be released and needs testing. SciFY creates now a small group of beta testers, who are going to be the first to have access to the application. Anyone interested to see it in practice can contact SciFY soon by contcting me by PM!
Thank you!
CaesarIA is an open source remake Caesar III game released by Impressions Games in 1998, it aims to expand the possibilities of the classical city-building simulators and to add new features showing the city life. Now the game work with some OS: Windows, Linux, Mac, Haiku and Android.
I invite you to participate in my project, the game source code you can find on the main page as well as you can download ready builds for different OS. On the following page I estimated the prospective expenses of different people based on a reasonable hourly rate. Also I know that it’s impossible to put some strict deadlines in such creative projects because requirements can be changed, the terms can be shifted or broken as a result the final quality will be worse than you planned before. I’m not a high-qualified game developer, this is bad. But there is good news that I have many successful projects in my portfolio. There are no much differences between developing software or games. For more than 5 years I have been developing the system of divers detect with strict deadlines, with changing requirements, using computer graphics and many other conditionals.
I believe I will success.
But i'm newby, i cann't post links for indiegogo campaign and images
so you can see this here igg .me/at/caesaria-game
video youtube. com/watch?v=FAWDq2_DNkI
project page bitbucket. org/dalerank/caesaria
Thanks all.
Dear users of xda developers
Within the context of a research project by the Institute of Technology and Innovation Management at the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, we are investigating the potential of online communities as an instrument for the prediction of future developments and trends. We are planning to execute an “idea contest” which separates in four phases. We have no financial interests in the ideas. We are only interested how online communities discuss about the future.
THE PROCEDURE
First phase
How will open source software and operating systems look like in the year 2030?
This phase is a brainstorming of the future development open source software and operating systems.
The ideas and concepts should be posted within this thread and be discussed with other users. It doesn’t matter how detailed the concepts or ideas are. There is no right or wrong. Every idea and concept, regardless how farfetched or ‘exaggerated’ will be considered.
Time period for this round: 14 days.
We are looking forward to your discussions!
If you have any questions, just write here in the thread or contact us. We will guide you through the contest!
And now let’s start with phase 1!
@Zeng1987 & @Gideon92
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@svetius approved
Hey folks, we,
@Zeng1987 and myself, are very eager to hear your ideas and concepts how open soruce software and operating systems look like in 2030!
Best regards,
@Gideon92
Cloud Computing
Hey Guys,
This sounds quite interesting.
I think cloud computing will play an important role for the future and will replace external storages.
In my company everthing is saved and stored in a cloud.
What do you guys think?
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