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WordPress 2.5 – where art thou?

Pål Heick — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:15:46 +0000

WordPress release Roadmap Update: The suspense finally drove me to westi on wordpress, where Peter Westwood, one of the Lead Developers of WordPress, reports on the status of WordPress development....

Open source goes open source

Pål Heick — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:22:02 +0000

I guess 2008 is turning out to be year of the open source:

Ohloh, the prominent community site for open source developers, is making itself open source, including its full suite of tools and even the Web site itself.

The Ohloh site collates information from public open source version control systems, to create a database of the productivity of open source projects, and the developers working on them. A new “labs” section of the Ohloh site makes source code available, under the GPL version 2. This includes tools such as Ohcount, which counts lines of source code and can be used by companies to audit their software-development teams.

Read it all:
Open source community site goes open source – or go see Ohloh.

Is it just me paying more attention to open source initiatives – or is an new open source trend emerging? Google is doing it’s very best to giving open source initiatives momentum – lately by offering $10 million in awards in the Android Developer Challenge:

Cool apps that surprise and delight mobile users, built by developers like you, will be a huge part of the Android vision. To support you in your efforts, Google has launched the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million in awards — no strings attached — for great mobile apps built on the Android platform.

SimCity goes Open Source

Pål Heick — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:54:20 +0000

…and will henceforth be known under the name Micropolis and is apparently going to be included in the OLPC project. Cool.

Read more here: SimCity Source Code Released.
Also, visit Don Hopkins, one of the main forces in this project.

Strangely enough, it only a few days since I encountered the open source / old school project FreeCol - that is based on Sid Meiers classical Colonization. This spurred me to search for more open source games and came upon this list: Free and Open Source Games on the Internet.

Are we going to see a rise in open source computer games based on abandoned gems from the 90ties?
Here’s a vote for Ghosts’n'Goblins and Elite!
Update – there is actually an open source project dedicated to deep space trading, privateering and bounty hunting: Vega Strike. I haven’t tried it (yet), but I’m downloading as I write this. Update follows

What old games do you miss?