The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
In this exclusive interview with Chris Aniszczyk, the Head of Open Source at Twitter explains how company engineers are working on open source technologies internally and contributing to a range of community projects.
Source: An inside look at open source at Twitter – opensource.com
Twitter is built on open source software and this article provides insight into the contributions engineers at Twitter are making to a number of open source projects.
4 open source chat applications for team collaboration | Opensource.com http://opensource.com/business/15/9/alternatives-slack-team-chat?sc_cid=70160000000x3w9AAA
Open source webmail clients for browser-based email | Opensource.com http://opensource.com/life/15/9/open-source-alternatives-gmail?sc_cid=70160000000x3vzAAA
MeowCAD is an online free and open source electronic design application tool. Its focus is on schematic and PCB design for electronic circuits.
MeowCAD is the first completely free and open source, software-as-a-service, electronic design tool and provides a free and open source alternative where there wasn’t one before. Ultimately, the value of an online electronics design community comes from its members. People are encouraged to fork the project, stand up their own servers, or just use MeowCAD directly to create their own electronics projects and share with the community.
Source: Design electronic circuits with MeowCAD
Some fun stuff for the maker crowd.
Exploring the use of digital badges for crediting contributors to scholarly papers for their work
Source: Paper Badger: Contributorship Badges
This seems a lot more fun than a mention in a footnote. I could collect these on my CV as a highly visible means of showing my work. This initial work is being done in the sciences but it is open source so some enterprising soul could make it work for legal scholarship.
Not sure which tools belong in your open source server toolkit? Here are 10 solid go-to tools to get you started.
Source: 10 outstanding open source server tools – TechRepublic
5 open source collaborative text editors | Opensource.com http://opensource.com/business/15/7/five-open-source-alternatives-google-docs
In the 155 releases since launch, the editor has improved immensely in performance, stability, feature-set, and modularity. The editor is faster inscrolling, typing, and start-up time. Atom now has a Windows installer, Linux packages, and several heavily requested features have been added like pane resizing and multi-folder projects.
Atom has become more modular through stabilizing the API, built-in ES6 support using babel, services for inter-package communication, decorationsfor extending the core editor, and new themes that automatically adapt the UI to the syntax colors. We’ve even removed some of our core packages in favor of community-built packages like autocomplete-plus.
http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/25/atom-1-0.html
This is a solid text editor, worth a look.
The open-source LaunchRock alternative. Build beautiful splash pages to collect emails & more – primarily focused on performance and rapid development.
Gulp AWS Splash https://github.com/niftylettuce/gulp-aws-splash
You’ve seen those spiffy one page announcement sites for the web’s next big thing. This is an open source system that helps you build them quickly and easily. The idea is to acquire customers quickly and these pages are designed to do that.
Requires node.js and npm. Makes use of Google Analytics, Mailchimp, and various AWS services.
Seldon is made up of many components that work together to deliver the best recommendations. Roughly, all user actions are captured via the REST API and streamed to logs. Those logs are processed in batch and new user models are delivered to the API Server. Then recommendations are delivered via the REST API.
http://docs.seldon.io/tech.html
The code for Seldom is on Github at https://github.com/SeldonIO/seldon-server.
