Living in An Open Source World

(But It's Far from Perfect)...March 2020, "Community Choice" Open Source Project of the Month  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌    Issue #73 - March 4, 2020 Sponsor Instantly detect suspicious activity on your PC with GlassWire.com FREE! Use the same tool information security and IT Pros use to find data wasters, privacy violators, bandwidth hogs, and malware. Try it now for free at GlassWire.com March 2020, "Community Choice" Project of the Month For our March "Community Choice" Project of the Month, the community elected CudaText, a cross-platform text and code editor. Cudatext offers a syntax highlight for 180+ languages, a lite interface with tabs and JSON config files instead of options-dialog. It also supports Python plugins. We caught up with the main author of CudaText, Alexey Torgashin as he shared some thoughts about the project's history, purpose, and direction. Vote For April's Project of the Month The vote for the April 2020 Community Choice SourceForge Project of the Month is now available, and will run until March 15, 2020 12:00 UTC. The candidates for SourceForge Project of the Month for April 2020 are: Hitachi Vantara End to end data integration and analytics platform WinCache Extension for PHP Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. Sardi Icon theme for Linux Operating Systems JSToolNpp A JavaScript tool for Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code Q4OS Ultra Fast, Classical UI, Cloud suitable, Operating System GPT fdisk GPT fdisk is a disk partitioning tool loosely modeled on Linux fdisk BlissRoms An Open Source OS, based on Android for legacy devices & GSI/Treble rEFInd An EFI boot manager utility Guzram's Ports World Collection of Android OEM ROM Public Ports by Guzram Sponsor Site24x7 Infrastructure Monitoring Irrespective of where your servers, VMs, network devices, and applications are hosted, correlate trends and identify performance issues before they affect your end-users. Sign up for a 30-day free trial Living in An Open Source World (But It's Far from Perfect) Once upon a time there was a war that waged between those who were for open source software and those who were against it. Now that war is long over, and according to a recent Red Hat survey open source has definitively won– however, that doesn't mean that everything is just perfect. Conferences and Events Southern California Linux Expo(SCALE) March 5-8, 2020 The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is an annual Linux, open source and free software conference held in Los Angeles, California OSCON July 13-16, 2020 OSCON covers everything shaping software development today—from AI and cloud technology to distributed computing. The call for speakers is open until January 14. BOSC 2020 July 19-21, 2020 BOSC is organized by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of open source software development and open science within the biological research community. Today in Tech On this day in 1956 Chinese-American computer engineer and inventor An Wang sold his patent for magnetic core memory to IBM. The core memory is considered one of the most important inventions in computer history. IBM had started using Ferrite cores in their systems, but the same core had already been patented by Wang. This led to an interesting legal battle, which ended in IBM purchasing the patent from Wang for $500,000. Wang later used this money to build up his own computer company, Wang Laboratories. Help Wanted Developers needed for help to develop a universal invoice system where invoices can be paid. If you are looking for an Open Source project to contribute your time to, or if you are someone who wants to advertise your skills, check out the Help Wanted page Final Thoughts If you know someone who is not getting this mailing, encourage them to sign up. If you want to change your newsletter frequency to monthly, go here. Thanks for being part of the SourceForge community! And, if you need to get in touch directly, feel free to send us an email at CommunityTeam@sourceforge.net.   Privacy Policy    Unsubscribe    Update Preferences   © 2020 Slashdot Media. All Rights Reserved.| 225 W Broadway Ste #1600 | San Diego, CA 92101