wftk again?

So here's a neat little checklist management system that sure looks a lot like the original goals for the wftk back in 2000: Checklistomania. [github][hnn]

As usual, I have the inchoate feeling that none of this would be a tenth as challenging in Decl. I should work on Decl.

Spitbol

Spitbol is the fast version of SNOBOL, and it's being maintained by Dave Shields. Single-handedly. This came up on HNN a couple of weeks ago, and now Vice seems to have picked up on the story for a personal angle [hnn].

I've considered using Spitbol for some kind of NLP stuff, but after all the work I've already put into some pretty sophisticated tokenization I'm not sure it's worth the effort for my main language-handling tasks. We'll see. It's certainly tempting.

Impulse Tracker open-sourced

Impulse Tracker was an influential piece of software in the 90's electronic music scene (and is doubtless still influential today, but isn't used as much, naturally). Its author just open-sourced the whole thing. It would be an interesting code understanding/exegesis target.

Scanners

Scanning is one of those places where confusion reigns and there is essentially no good open-source software to be found. XSane is the closest the open-source world has come, and it's not very Windows-compatible.

So it might be a reasonable idea to investigate this as a possible relatively simple target UI application.

Anyway, SANE is the Linux project for scanner drivers. There is no Windows support.

GlobalSight

GlobalSight is a translation management system that was closed-source until 2008 (I believe). After its acquisition it was open-sourced by replacing a few dependencies with open-source equivalents, which is pretty excellent.

At any rate, this is an open-source target I'd like to put a little effort into, given my actual income structure.

Source open news

Remember Source, the open news tool consortium/group/whatever? They've got a code directory. Good target.

Loomio

A collaborative proposal creation site and the open-source software that powers it.

WinFF - open source video manipulation

Open-source video conversion project.

Numenta.org

Some kind of open-source machine learning project.

Structure of a good open-source project

Yeah, yeah. I can't resist structure descriptions.

2014-04-19: Darn. This is clearly not the right link. I wonder what I did intend to link to?

Open-source quant platform

Now here's something you don't see every day.

PSPP

PSPP is an open source alternative to SPSS, IBM's statistical analysis package.

Raven Software open-sources code for Star Wars games

This is always cool stuff: a couple of games got open-sourced after Disney's acquisition of Lucas.

I'm posting this under "open source target", but my understanding of what that means seems to have drifted a little. Originally I considered open source targets to be interesting things that could be done for programming using declarative styles and semantic programming. Now I find myself also including things that could be used as existing code for the purpose of exegesis and code understanding.

This is kinda both.

Note 2013-10-10: I just now noticed I didn't link to the post in question, but it doesn't matter. Raven apparently undecided to release, and all trace of their code is gone from SourceForge. That irks me, but there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it.

Open-source game clones

A whole long list of open-source game clones of all description.

What can I do for Mozilla?

Wow, this leads lots and lots of interesting places...  Here are the places I found interesting.

• Network Security Services: C-language tools for working with security
• PHP client for Marketplace
• Build and automation tools in Python
• Mozilla's own sites, in Django, and some Wordpress plug-ins
• DXR source code searching and indexing, also Python
• General Mozilla development in a raft of languages
• Rust

Man.  I wish there were three or four of me.

Here's an idea

Open-source music.

No, no, hear me out.  I'm a sucker for electronica, you see (currently I get most of my music input from RauteMusik in Germany; their "HardeR" channel is normally a decent stimulus for productive work).  Since electronica is already computer-generated, it would be simple (hhahahaha) to write source code for it, plus maybe some samples, I said more distortion, and compile the thing into a finished piece.

With me so far?

OK, so the "source" to such a piece would be the various melody definitions, waveform samples, processing rules, and "orchestration" (the overall architecture of the piece) - and you could put that on Github to let people fork it, you see.

Wouldn't that be neat?  Of course it would.  It would be like the Toon-o-Matic except for sound.

Videos of open-source project activity

Neat for an artist's impression of how activity on a project is structured.

Open source contribution

14 ways.

Also, a way to organize and compare Git repositories, apparently.  Interesting, if I understand correctly.

OpenERP

Whoa.  Open-source SAP replacement - and we all know what a profitable ecosystem SAP is!  This is open-source!

So ... gotta look at this in much more detail.

Update: And here is its slightly more scammy-seeming cousin VIENNA Advantage.  Apparently this one is built by a single company with what sure looks like a remote-control office (I am not free of this guilt myself, of course) who has reportedly opened their source.  If it's open access source, color me unimpressed, natch - and there are some textual weirdnesses on their cluttered front page as well that make me kind of wonder how serious they are.

But they exist.  And as such, they're data.

Update #2: dear Lord, their user interface is in Silverlight.

Doom is open source

Open-source target: Doom.