May 2020, “Community Choice” Project of the Month

What Keeps Developers Happy? Contributing to Open Source  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.   Issue #77 - May 6, 2020 Sponsor Join the DataOps.NEXT virtual conference on 14 May Solve your complex data management issues with fresh and practical insights from this one-day, no-cost virtual conference. Join Hitachi Vantara for the latest insights on how to unleash DataOps across your entire data lifecycle – onboarding and preparation, governance and agility, data fabric optimization, and analytics and machine learning. REGISTER NOW What Keeps Developers Happy? Contributing to Open Source This week long-time open source advocate Matt Asay warned employers that the best way to keep their developers happy was to let them contribute to open source projects: Read more on Slashdot.org May 2020, "Community Choice" Project of the Month – Clonezilla For our May "Community Choice" Project of the Month, the community elected Clonezilla, a partition and disk imaging/cloning program. Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program much like True Image® or Norton Ghost®. It helps with system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery. Vote For June's Project of the Month The vote for the June 2020 Community Choice SourceForge Project of the Month is now available, and will run until May 15, 2019 12:00 UTC. The candidates for SourceForge Project of the Month for June 2020 are: VcXsrv Windows X Server Windows X-server based on the xorg git sources but compiled with Visual C++ 2012 Express Edition gnuplot A portable, multi-platform, command-line driven graphing utility OfficeFloor Provides inversion of coupling control Sardi Icon theme for Linux Operating Systems LANC Remastered IP Resolver/puffer/sniffer butt (broadcast using this tool) Icecast and Shoutcast broadcasting client ArchGeoTux Repository of Geospatial packages for Arch Linux DxWnd Window hooker to run fullscreen programs in window and more Jamulus Internet Jam Session Software Sponsor HERE is the #1 Location Platform for Developers Add the power of location to your apps and web services with free access to over 20 market-leading APIs including Mapping, Geocoding, Routing, Traffic, Weather and more. Plus, when you sign up for HERE Freemium, you'll also gain access to the HERE Studio map builder which comes with 5 GB of free storage for all your geodata. Learn more about HERE Conferences and Events (Dates may be subject to change) Hitachi Vantara DataOps.NEXT Virtual Conference May 14, 2020 Solve your complex data management issues with fresh and practical insights from this one-day, no-cost virtual conference. RedisConf 2020 May 12-13, 2020 RedisConf is a learning conference for developers and cloud professionals for Redis. Today in Tech On this day in 1998 Apple unveiled their latest desktop computer, the original iMac. Apple Computer Inc.'s then Interim Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs introduced the iMac at the Flint Center Theater in Cupertino, California, the same place where the first Mac was unveiled in 1984. The new iMac was equipped with Apple's G3 233-MHz processor, a 15-inch display and a 33.6 kilobits-per-second modem. It also had a unique-looking, somewhat egg-shaped case with a signature blue color, which later led to it being nicknamed the "Bondi Blue". The iMac was a desktop computer directed towards the personal computer consumers, with Jobs dubbing it as "the internet-age computer for the rest of us." The actual release of the iMac was scheduled in August of that same year, but before its release Apple had already garnered a whopping 150,000 orders. This marked the beginning of Apple's Renaissance, as well as their affinity to adding the letter "i" on just about all of their products. Help Wanted Developers needed for help with the LenMus Project. LenMus is a free open source program (GPL v3) that I started in 2002 for learning music and practising aural training. 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