As promised...

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

I told people that if they sent in their "Hot, New OSS projects just to
me, I would tally them up and send them out again.

I thank you all for your recommendations.  Here they are below.  I tried
to take out duplicates, and those answers that were sent to the entire
mailing list I have left out, since you already saw them.



I submitted a blog entry using some (but not all) of your "Hot New"
ideas, and as soon as I get a URL for it, I will pass that past you
also.

In the meantime, you can enjoy looking up the "Hot New" items you are
not familiar with.

md
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>RepRap.  It's definition of 'new' is up for debate, but it really took
>off in 2009.

> handbrake - convert DVDs to just about any media format
> xbmc - once you have your DVDs ripped, you need something to play them
> on.  XBMC and a $199 nettop makes a very useful set top box
> virtualbox - for when you absolutely, positively, need access to
> Windows (or want to test the next Ubuntu release)
> 


> Personally I'm most interested in OLSR and adding wifi to everything 
> right now with OpenWRT (which is an *old* project, but getting things 
> more and more right now).  pfSense, and ZFS are selling hardware for
> me. Again, leading indicators vs. production-ready, I think.
> 
> I installed a distro called Jolicloud on my wife's netbook on Friday. 
> Lots of geeks are talking about it.
> 

>replicatorg  (which drives the MakerBot) is both somewhat new, and
>seems pretty hot to me.


>   I think OpenStreetMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org/) has the
> potential to be "the next Wikipedia".  The project itself is not "new"
> per se, but it's only recently been getting US press attention.  In
> all the talk of Free Software, I think the concept of "Free Content"
> sometimes gets lost, but the information we process is at least as
> important as the software which processes it.  So I think OSM deserves
> honorable mention, if nothing else.   Plus OSM does have some really
> cool software associated with it.  :)

>Far from New, but seriously HOT: WordPress.org

>Not really new, but showing serious HOTness:
>http://www.sahana.lk/

>Did you know that Facebook was Open Source?
>http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php

>This project could never gets enough press, IMHO. =)
>http://www.arduino.cc/


>ARM based netbooks, tablets, servers, etc.
>Because Windows and its apps cannot go there. 

>Look into the WebGL related projects and the
>implications for OpenGL in browsers vs Flash
>vs Silverlight, etc.

>Newest perl web frameworks in public bakeoff
>http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/40292


>Databases aren't just for sql/relational anymore.
>(Or rather for us graybeards, again. Once more around the great wheel
>of progress.)
>http://blogs.the451group.com/information_management/2010/03/15/categorizing-the-foo-fighters-making-sense-of-nosql/
>lots of options there.

>http://www.scribblethink.org/Work/VisualIDs

>    http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/VisualIDs

>    http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/chronicle/VisualIDs


> StatusNet <http://status.net/>,
> 
> OneSocialWeb <http://onesocialweb.org/>
> <http://ralphm.net/publications/berlin_2007/>
> Actually OpenSocialWeb is built on top of Jabber.
> 
> 
> * Lemote's Yeeloong & Lynloong <http://lemote.com/en/> are low-priced
> >     laptop and desktop computers (respectively) that ship running
> only FOSS--all the way down to the boot PROMs.
> 
>   * Qi Hardware's Nanonote <http://www.sharism.cc/>, which is looking
>     more and more like the thing to replace my last-generation ("last"
>     as in "terminal", not "most recent") `open iPod'.
> 
>   * The Pandora <http://www.openpandora.org/>, dispelling the myth
>     that Linux and FOSS don't make for good gaming. Open hardware,
> too!
> 
>   * The Touchbook <http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/>:
>     an entirely-FOSS (and open hardware, too) tablet computing
>     device (`like the iPad', but better...), with an optional
>     module that turns it into a netbook.
> 
>   * Sugar on a Stick: as Caroline Meeks explained at Durham,
>     contrary to popular belief, Sugar/OLPC deployments that
>     actually approached or attained the intended "one per" have
>     been extremely successful, with some prime examples
>     throughout South America (Uraguay & Peru topping the list)
>     and a few in the USA (e.g.: Birmingham, AL). and
>     SoaS is... everything that we talked about at that meeting :)
> 
> > * The WikiReader <http://thewikireader.com/>
> >       (& http://github.com/wikireader)
> 
> >   http://linuxagainstpoverty.org/
> >   http://www.heliosinitiative.org/
> 
> 
>