CDT Mission
From the site:
The Center for Democracy and Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media.
Category: Open Source
The bazaar of open source development
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
One of the great lines: Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.
RedHat’s next generation Linux Kernel project
Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule.
IIDC (IEEE 1394 or FireWire based Digital Cameras) for Linux
Coriander Home Page
From the site:
Coriander is a Linux graphical user interface (GUI) that let you control a Digital Camera through the IEEE1394 bus (aka FireWire, or iLink). By Digital Camera, I mean here a camera that complies with the IIDC v1.04 (or later) Digital Camera Specifications, published by the 1394 Trade Association.
A related project is: http://www.linux1394.org/
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Wired News: Speed Meets Feed in Download Tool
From the site:
A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger merges two of this season’s hottest tech fads — RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing — to create a cheap publishing system for what its author calls “big media objects.” The hybrid system is meant to eliminate both the publisher’s need for fat bandwidth, and the consumer’s need to wait through a grueling download.
P2P video archive and sharing system
NGV
From the site:
New Global Vision is a digital video archive project. The goal is to build up a network of dedicated ftp servers and a peer-to-peer file sharing system able to overcome the bandwidth problems related to the size of video files.
Friendster, Open Source Style
SourceForge.net: Project Info – Slashster
From the sf description:
Slashster: An Open Source PHP / Mysql Friend of a Friend implementation (e.g: Orkut, Friendster)
This should be interesting, one to keep an eye on.
Ah ha, that is what this site is, a reBlog!!!
reBlog.org
From reBlog.org:
What is a reBlog?
A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers subscribe to their favorite feeds, preview the content, and select their favorite posts. These posts are automatically published to a Moveable Type weblog.
Only I am not using RSS.. I will have to check into this.. (when I have time that is)
Here is Eyebeam’s reBlog, they are the group that developed the software in the first place.
Java wrapper for ffmpeg
SourceForge.net: Project Info – JMF wrapper for ffmpeg
Very nice, JMF needs a refresher (an understatement) and it is nice to open source implementations picking up on it (especially since Apple has no idea what they are doing to QuickTime for Java).
From the site:
This is a Java wrapper for ffmpeg compression library. It exports ffmpeg codecs functions as a JMF (Java Media Framework) codec. You can use this codec from JMStudio and then you’ll have a video player able to play mpeg1, h263, mpeg4 (divX), etc. streams.
A set of multimedia and 3d classes for Java
Jun for Java
Looks to be some open source and easy to use QuickTime and OpenGL wrappers for Java.. Interesting…