Jan 23, 2017 

Projects of the Week, January 23, 2017

Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net:

Universal Media Server
Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server Universal Media Server supports all major operating systems, with versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The program streams or transcodes many different media formats with little or no configuration. UMS is powered by MEncoder, FFmpeg, tsMuxeR, AviSynth, MediaInfo and more, which combine to offer support for a wide range of media formats Check out the list of media renderers here: http://www.universalmediaserver.com/about/
[ Download Universal Media Server ]


GnuCash
GnuCash is a personal and small-business finance manager with a check-book like register GUI to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. GnuCash is designed to be simple and easy to use but still based on formal accounting principles.
[ Download GnuCash ]


Free Manga Downloader
The Free Manga Downloader (FMD) is an open source application written in Object-Pascal for managing and downloading manga from various websites. This is a mirror of main repository on GitHub. For feedback/bug report visit https://github.com/riderkick/FMD
[ Download Free Manga Downloader ]


Limbo PC Emulator
Limbo is a PC Emulator (x86) based on QEMU. You can now run Debian or DSL Linux on your Android device without root. * Warning! Limbo works only with a few Desktop OSes. Windows XP and newer, Ubuntu, and all other large OS are NOT supported due to their heavy usage of the SD card and CPU. * ‘Hacker’s Keyboard’ app (available in Play Store) is recommended for use with Limbo. * Emulation speeds depend on your device and OS. I recommend using a device with at least a dual core CPU. *USB devices do work, but are very complicated to set-up Users are free to download the source, and modify it. You may send me a message to have your version added to this project. Copyright � 2012 Max Kastanas, Uploaded by Vynncent Murphy
[ Download Limbo PC Emulator ]


wox-logoWox
WoX or Windows omni-eXecutor is a free and effective full-featured launcher that allows you to be more productive. With WoX you can access programs and web content as you type, and choose from dozens of plugins and a selection of themes. You can also use pinyin to search for programs.
[ Download Wox ]


K-Meleon
K-Meleon is a fast and customizable web browser that can be used instead of Internet Explorer on Windows. Powered by the same Gecko engine as the Firefox and Mozilla browsers, K-Meleon provides users with a secure browsing experience.
[ Download K-Meleon ]


MediathekView
Das Programm MediathekView durchsucht die Mediatheken verschiedener öffentlich-rechtlicher Sender (3Sat, ARD, ARTE, KiKa, MDR, ORF, SRF, ZDF etc.), lädt Beiträge daraus herunter oder spielt diese ab (mit VLC Media Player oder mit einem Programm eigener Wahl). Es können auch Sendereihen/Serien abonniert werden. Ein Dankeschön an den Projektgründer wird gerne entgegengenommen: https://mediathekview.de/spenden/ Die Quelltexte gibt es hier: https://github.com/mediathekview/MediathekView
[ Download MediathekView ]


Elastix
Elastix is an appliance software that integrates the best tools available for Asterisk-based PBXs into a easy-to-use interface. It also adds its own set of utilities to make it the best software package available for open source telephony.
[ Download Elastix ]


NSIS: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being a user’s first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software. NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.
[ Download NSIS: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System ]

Jan 20, 2017 

“Community Choice” Project of the Month Vote – March 2017

The vote for March 2017 Community Choice SourceForge Project of the Month is now available, and will run until February 15, 2017 12:00 UTC.


NAS4Free
The NAS4Free operating system can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share computer data storage over a computer network. ‘NAS’ as in “Network-Attached Storage” and ‘4Free’ as in ‘Free and open source’, NAS4Free is the simplest and fastest way to create an centralized and easily-accessible server for all kinds of data! NAS4Free supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. It includes ZFS, Software RAID (0,1,5), disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T / email reports etc. with following protocols/services: CIFS/SMB (samba), Samba AD, FTP, NFS v4, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI, UPnP, Bittorent, Syncthing, VirtualBox and noVNC, Bridge, CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) and HAST (Highly Available Storage). This all can easy be managed by a configurale webinterface.
[ Download NAS4Free ]


NSIS: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being a user’s first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software. NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.
[ Download NSIS: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System ]


Universal Media Server
Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server Universal Media Server supports all major operating systems, with versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The program streams or transcodes many different media formats with little or no configuration. UMS is powered by MEncoder, FFmpeg, tsMuxeR, AviSynth, MediaInfo and more, which combine to offer support for a wide range of media formats Check out the list of media renderers here: http://www.universalmediaserver.com/about/
[ Download Universal Media Server ]


MediathekView
Das Programm MediathekView durchsucht die Mediatheken verschiedener öffentlich-rechtlicher Sender (3Sat, ARD, ARTE, KiKa, MDR, ORF, SRF, ZDF etc.), lädt Beiträge daraus herunter oder spielt diese ab (mit VLC Media Player oder mit einem Programm eigener Wahl). Es können auch Sendereihen/Serien abonniert werden. Ein Dankeschön an den Projektgründer wird gerne entgegengenommen: https://mediathekview.de/spenden/ Die Quelltexte gibt es hier: https://github.com/mediathekview/MediathekView
[ Download MediathekView ]


manjarolinux-community

[ Download manjarolinux-community ]


K-Meleon
K-Meleon is a fast and customizable web browser that can be used instead of Internet Explorer on Windows. Powered by the same Gecko engine as the Firefox and Mozilla browsers, K-Meleon provides users with a secure browsing experience.
[ Download K-Meleon ]


Outlook CalDav Synchronizer
Free Outlook Plugin, which synchronizes events, tasks and contacts between Outlook and Google, SOGo, Horde or any other CalDAV or CardDAV server. Supported Outlook versions are 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007. This project was initially developed as a master thesis project at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Software Engineering Degree program. Outlook CalDav Synchronizer is Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS), still you can support the project by donating on Sourceforge or directly within the About dialog of our Plugin. ### New collaboration with Nextcloud, see https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-offers-caldav-synchronizer-for-outlook-users/ For possible enterprise support contact us here! ### Backport for WinXP available see below! ### German reviews in C’t and PC-Welt http://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2015-27-Kurztest-Outlook-Add-in-3035256.html http://www.pcwelt.de/tipps/Google-Kalender-mit-Outlook-abgleichen-per-CalDAV-Synchronizer-9916911.html ###
[ Download Outlook CalDav Synchronizer ]


Limbo PC Emulator
Limbo is a PC Emulator (x86) based on QEMU. You can now run Debian or DSL Linux on your Android device without root. * Warning! Limbo works only with a few Desktop OSes. Windows XP and newer, Ubuntu, and all other large OS are NOT supported due to their heavy usage of the SD card and CPU. * ‘Hacker’s Keyboard’ app (available in Play Store) is recommended for use with Limbo. * Emulation speeds depend on your device and OS. I recommend using a device with at least a dual core CPU. *USB devices do work, but are very complicated to set-up Users are free to download the source, and modify it. You may send me a message to have your version added to this project. Copyright � 2012 Max Kastanas, Uploaded by Vynncent Murphy
[ Download Limbo PC Emulator ]


PDF Split and Merge
Split and merge PDF files with PDFsam, an easy-to-use desktop tool with graphical, command line and web interface.
[ Download PDF Split and Merge ]

Jan 16, 2017 

Projects of the Week, January 16, 2017

Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net:

NAS4Free
The NAS4Free operating system can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share computer data storage over a computer network. ‘NAS’ as in “Network-Attached Storage” and ‘4Free’ as in ‘Free and open source’, NAS4Free is the simplest and fastest way to create an centralized and easily-accessible server for all kinds of data! NAS4Free supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. It includes ZFS, Software RAID (0,1,5), disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T / email reports etc. with following protocols/services: CIFS/SMB (samba), Samba AD, FTP, NFS v4, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI, UPnP, Bittorent, Syncthing, VirtualBox and noVNC, Bridge, CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) and HAST (Highly Available Storage). This all can easy be managed by a configurale webinterface.
[ Download NAS4Free ]


KaOSx
An independent small, rolling distribution, fully focused on KDE/Qt. Using pacman as package-manager.
[ Download KaOSx ]


PDF Split and Merge
Split and merge PDF files with PDFsam, an easy-to-use desktop tool with graphical, command line and web interface.
[ Download PDF Split and Merge ]


terasology-logoTerasology
Terasology is a free and open-source survival and discovery game set in a voxel world. Influenced by Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper, it offers a unique and enjoyable building and playing experience.

Terasology requires Java 8 and an updated graphics card driver.
[ Download Terasology ]


manjarolinux-community

[ Download manjarolinux-community ]


Peace Equalizer, UI for Equalizer APO
Peace Equalizer is a user interface for Equalizer APO http://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo by Jonas Thedering (version 0.9.1 or higher). Your equalizer configuration (audio preset) can be saved and activated by 1 click, hotkey, tray or desktop shotcut. Note: Your virus scanner can detect a virus in Peace.exe. This is a false positive, more info on the forum. Install by running downloaded PeaceSetup.exe. Almost all suggested features in the reviews are implemented! Thanks shak3800, Giorgio, makzmakz, rcn29, ptou, stelam, creyc, abberration and other Peace fans. For issues on virus scanners and their false positives go to the Wiki.
[ Download Peace Equalizer, UI for Equalizer APO ]


Skim
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Skim requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher.
[ Download Skim ]


WinPython
WinPython is a free open-source portable distribution of the Python programming language for Windows XP/7/8, designed for scientists, supporting both 32bit and 64bit versions of Python 2 and Python 3. Since September 2014, Developpement has moved to https://winpython.github.io/
[ Download WinPython ]


DC++
This is a project aimed at producing a file-sharing and chatting client using the ADC protocol. It also supports connecting to the Direct Connect network.
[ Download DC++ ]

Jan 13, 2017 

Don’ts When Dealing with New Contributors

Open source projects are amazing in that practically anyone can come in and make a difference. But it can also be a burden for the exact same reason. Just ask project developers and maintainers.

If you have been or currently are a project developer or maintainer, this scenario may be familiar to you: you’re juggling a million things with your project and out of nowhere an external contribution comes in. You’re grateful of course, but you’re also sighing inside and thinking, great. More work for you. And you wouldn’t be wrong.

New contributions can come with a lot of work: reviewing patches and reworking code among others. But thinking of them in this negative way can lead to some bad decisions– decisions that can make open source projects a little less open and a lot more unwelcoming, sometimes even hostile. This is the one big mistake you do not want to be making.

New contributions help keep open source projects going. Developers should really avoid thinking negatively of them as this can lead to actions that keep new contributors away.

Purposefully Discouraging New Contributions

Unfortunately for some, this negativity and the bad practices that result from it can come instinctively or unknowingly simply to avoid “added” work. They’ll say they don’t want contributions; make it difficult for newcomers to make contributions; or purposefully make new contributors feel unwelcome.

The first thing that developers have to realize here is that doing these discouraging things will only hurt instead of help their project. They’re missing out on additional support that can only be beneficial to their project. They could be preventing the entry of a future maintainer. The second thing they need to realize is that these contributions are not really “added” work but work that is essentially part of every open source project. It may not always be the most important part, but it is still part of the project and of the open source process in general, so it should not be discouraged.

Blind to Bad Habits

Even if you don’t do things to purposefully discourage new contributors, there may be other things you’ve gotten used to doing that you didn’t know or notice are actually discouraging. For example: handing new contributors grunt work. It’s often instinctual for maintainers to hand these jobs off to newbies, and in many cases, it’s fine. However, this is not true for all. Some contributors have different motivations and expectations; others are more skilled than they let on. By simply handing them grunt work without consulting them, slowly but surely they will be discouraged to continue with the project.

Conversely, some maintainers expect newcomers to already know the ins and outs of the project, and ask too much of them too soon. This results in the newcomer feeling incompetent.

In these cases, it’s important for project developers and maintainers to properly assess the ability and expectations of newcomers and assign tasks appropriately. You can start by asking them to send in some patches, and review these patches. Simply communicating with them could even be enough to gauge where a new contributor would prove to be most useful within a project. By doing these things, newcomers will feel more fulfilled and be more likely to stick around and help, and the project will be able to benefit from maximizing the newcomer’s skills.

Jan 9, 2017 

Projects of the Week, January 9, 2017

Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net:

Pandora FMS: Flexible Monitoring System
Pandora FMS is an enterprise-ready monitoring solution that provides unparalleled flexibility for IT to address both immediate and unforeseen operational issues, including infrastructure and IT processes. It uniquely enables business and IT to adapt to changing needs through a flexible and rapid approach to IT and business deployment. Pandora FMS consolidates all the needs of modern monitoring (ITOM, APM, BAM) and provides status and performance metrics from different operating systems, virtual infrastructure (VMware, Hyper-V, XEN), Docker containers, applications, storage and hardware devices such as firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers or routers. It’s highly scalable (up to 2000 nodes with one single server), 100% web and with multi-tenant capabilities. It has a very flexible ACL system and several different graphical reports and user-defined control screens.
[ Download Pandora FMS: Flexible Monitoring System ]

atom-logo Atom
Atom is a text editor that’s modern, approachable and full-featured. It’s also easily customizable- you can customize it to do anything and be able to use it productively without ever touching a config file.
Atom is free to download and runs on Linux, OS X and Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js and embedded Git Control. It is based on Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell),a framework for building cross-platform apps using Chromium and Node.js.
[ Download Atom ]


ShanaEncoder
ShanaEncoder is audio/video encoding program based on FFmpeg. Main Features – Both beginners and professionals can easily use the ShanaEncoder. – Fast encoding speed and quality of professional. – Closed caption, subtitle overlay, logo, crop, segment, etc… ShanaEncoder provides many features. – Support for H.264(High 10) decoding/encoding. – Support for unicode Source: https://shana.pe.kr/ffmpeg
[ Download ShanaEncoder ]


Netrunner OS
Welcome to Netrunner OS page on Sourceforge. Netrunner is a Debian based OS featuring KDE Plasma Desktop. Here you will find the latest releases for download as X86 ISOs and ARM IMGs.
[ Download Netrunner OS ]


Outlook CalDav Synchronizer
Free Outlook Plugin, which synchronizes events, tasks and contacts between Outlook and Google, SOGo, Horde or any other CalDAV or CardDAV server. Supported Outlook versions are 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007. This project was initially developed as a master thesis project at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Software Engineering Degree program. Outlook CalDav Synchronizer is Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS), still you can support the project by donating on Sourceforge or directly within the About dialog of our Plugin. ### New collaboration with Nextcloud, see https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-offers-caldav-synchronizer-for-outlook-users/ For possible enterprise support contact us here! ### Backport for WinXP available see below! ### German reviews in C’t and PC-Welt http://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2015-27-Kurztest-Outlook-Add-in-3035256.html http://www.pcwelt.de/tipps/Google-Kalender-mit-Outlook-abgleichen-per-CalDAV-Synchronizer-9916911.html ###
[ Download Outlook CalDav Synchronizer ]


VeraCrypt
VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX (https://www.idrix.fr) and based on TrueCrypt 7.1a. It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. It also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt. This enhanced security adds some delay ONLY to the opening of encrypted partitions without any performance impact to the application use phase. This is acceptable to the legitimate owner but it makes it much harder for an attacker to gain access to the encrypted data. All released files are PGP signed with key ID=0x54DDD393, available on key servers and downloadable at https://www.idrix.fr/VeraCrypt/VeraCrypt_PGP_public_key.asc VeraCrypt can mount TrueCrypt volumes. It also can convert them to VeraCrypt format. Documentation: https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/documentation FAQ : https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=FAQ
[ Download VeraCrypt ]


Parrot Security OS
Parrot Security OS is a cloud friendly operating system designed for Pentesting, Computer Forensic, Reverse engineering, Hacking, Cloud pentesting, privacy/anonimity and cryptography. Based on Debian and developed by Frozenbox network.
[ Download Parrot Security OS ]


SynWrite add-ons
Collection of add-ons for SynWrite editor.
[ Download SynWrite add-ons ]


DisplayCAL
DisplayCAL (formerly known as dispcalGUI) is a graphical user interface for the display calibration and profiling tools of Argyll CMS, an open source color management system. Calibrate and characterize your display devices using one of the many supported measurement instruments, with support for multi-display setups and a variety of available settings like customizable whitepoint, luminance, tone response curve as well as the option to create accurate look-up-table ICC profiles as well as some proprietary 3D LUT formats. Check the accuracy of profiles and 3D LUTs via measurements.
[ Download DisplayCAL ]

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