Monday, October 24, 2011

Some more open source projects

I keep running across open-source projects it would be nice to contribute to. Weird.
  • Qt has officially been spun off by Nokia. Along the same lines would of course be Tk and Wx, and I suppose native W32 by direct DLL access. All these share a lot of concepts that should be organized in parallel, and ultimately a feature in one should always migrate into the others so we're all working with the same set of concepts. They do eventually anyway, so it's kind of an obvious step to formalize that path.
  • MediaWiki is, of course, in PHP, and always has bugs outstanding. Hone the semantic understanding tools on that. Same goes for Drupal and WordPress, of course.
  • Which brings us to open-access science. This guy, a chemist at Cambridge, appears to be doing some actual data mining of open-access journals. I need to look a little closer at that. And remember: closed source kills.
  • And then there's WikiData.

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