My sub-project, Gotmail, released version 0.8.6. We added windows support, localization support and many other lovely additions to all those who are needing to get their hotmail from hotmail without going through their web interface (aka, to get it like you would any other email address using pop3).
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Dance_party_broken_up_by_police_in_US_state_of_Utah
Just hit download on the music video category of torrentspy. You know its the best ever.
I’m completely hooked on Rockstar INXS.
Ted has created a lovely graphic to encourage folks to submit lots of clips this week and next weekend to get the Open Clip Art library to 5000 pieces of clip art! Contribute your clip art now!!! (Cool and great idea TED!)
Ultrasonic Audio is here: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/article/0,16106,388134,00.html
SF Mayor plans for all of metropolitan area of SF to get wiki: http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3528086
http://wiki.whatthehack.org/index.php/Who’s_at_what_the_hack_(and_what_seems_to_be_the_main_interest)
Whoa: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/19/online_mugging/
http://www.gamersinfo.net//index.php?art/id:506
http://www.mygodsandheroes.com/
http://www.godsandheroes.com/
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050701/hong_01.shtml
http://www.perpetual.com/pages/employment.html
Kiss viewers: I did not know this world existed…did you?
I’m totally thinking about my conversation with Bryce about time management. Kees and Bryce, you guys got me thinking about this…I’m totally getting super organized and into hyper-time management and even time of the day management! I need more info…I must extract the most time out of this body 
A must read is Kurt Cagle’s SVGOPEN keynote: http://www.understandingxml.com/archives/2005/08/the_future_of_s.html
Fox likes: http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/v3/index.html
Cool to see that Sydney is doing well in Oakland so close to where I use to live! Her group has classes at their space on Telegraph…cool!
Awesome! An article about Inkscape from redhat magazine.
NOTE: This is a second stab (updated) at an overall presentation of the concepts of the Create Project.
Creative Free and Open Source projects such as Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, Audacity, Open Clip Art Library and others are highly successful projects which produce much video, audio, illustrations, photos, and other content. However, much code, media, and infrastructure are produced by each project somewhat independently which could be shared inter-project. For example, several of the aforementioned applications have their own brush types, color preferences, preferred media storage ocations, keyboard shortcuts and file format converters. Sharing these resources saves developer time, increases productivity, and contributes to an overall improved user experience. Because of this overlap and the similarity of media, there is need to work together on standards, promotions, and inter-community plans.
This paper is about the Create Project and how it catalyzes communication and sharing between Free and Open Source “creative software” communities by providing a third-party space for shared infrastructure. This talk outlines the rationale for this project, its current state, who is participating, and future plans.
Particular emphasis is placed upon the strategy of improving communication through ambient sharing. This is typified by combining developers’ blogs from the different development communities into a planet-type [2] blog aggregation available at Create’s project space at Freedesktop.org [3]. In the commercial world, affiliations and alliances are brokered through contracts and funding. In Free and Open Source Software alternate approaches for encouraging collaboration and sharing are necessary which do not rely upon forced meetings, ultimatums, and explicit timetables that decrease the fun in development. Rather, the emphasis on ambient sharing is about providing a service for sharing, lowering social barriers for participation, and making collaboration casual.
[1] This list is not exhaustive but used as an example of the type of project that is considered a Creative Software. See http://www.blender.org, http://www.gimp.org, http://www.inkscape.org, http://www.scribus.net, and http://audacity.sourceforge.net, and http://www.openclipart.org.
[2] See http://www.planetplanet.org/
[3] See http://create.freedesktop.org/
