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posted by toby, Mon 29 Jun 2009 01:03:12 AM UTC - 1 reply
For many years we've had an entry on the games tasklist item for "A realistic train-driving simulator." I've found two projects that might satisfy this requirement: http://www.openttd.org/ (which is GPL licensed) and http://openbve.trainsimcentral.co.uk/ which is public domain. Both take different approaches to the idea of simulating train traffic, and both look pretty interesting in their own ways.
posted by toby, Wed 27 May 2009 11:36:33 AM UTC - 0 replies
We used to have a job posting for volunteers to make a Free Software replacement for Google Earth. This is now an FSF High Priority project (see http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html#gereplacment) so there's no longer a need to duplicate it on this task list.
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posted by toby, Tue 02 Sep 2008 12:43:15 AM UTC - 0 replies
For a very long time, the task list has had an item "If you're up for a "grand challenge" you can tackle a problem that's frustrated computer scientists and linguists for almost 40 years: translating one natural language into another." We recently learned about Apertium (http://www.apertium.org/) which appears to be making good progress on this task. If you're interested in natural language translation then we'd recommend that you take a look at Apertium.
posted by toby, Wed 25 Oct 2006 03:40:13 PM UTC - 0 replies
I added a new task to the tasklist to improve the Free documentation for MySQL. The MySQL relational database is Free Software, but the documentation provided by MySQL AB is non-Free. There's a project to document MySQL at WikiBooks (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MySQL) and we encourage anyone that's interested in MySQL (or SQL in general) to contribute.
posted by toby, Mon 03 Jul 2006 02:27:27 PM UTC - 3 replies
At rms' request I added a tasklist item asking for volunteers to work on a Free alternative to the proprietary "Google Earth" client. If you're interested in this project please let -unavailable- know.
posted by toby, Fri 31 Mar 2006 04:37:29 PM UTC - 0 replies
Both Harbour (http://www.harbour-project.org/) and Clip (http://www.itk.ru/english/index.shtml) seem to be humming along nicely, so people who need to run xBase/Clipper programs and want to use Free Software should be able to do so. I'm closing the Task List entry for xBase, if someone wants to work on it they could work on either of those projects.
posted by toby, Fri 31 Mar 2006 04:25:29 PM UTC - 1 reply
Based on a volunteer query I looked into current support for the proprietary "Real Audio" format in Free Software. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealAudio) at least one GPL program (MPlayer) is capable of playing many "Real Audio" files, so I'm going to close this item and recommend that if volunteers are interested in helping GNU with media they should help with the GNASH project (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/) instead.
posted by toby, Fri 20 May 2005 01:45:54 PM UTC - 5 replies
GNU is looking for volunteers to help manage (and contribute to) the "Hardware Devices that Support Free Software" pages. You can contribute simply by reporting your experience with various hardware components to hardware@fsf.org. If you'd like to contribute further you can join the team that manages the pages. The FSF website uses Plone so HTML skills aren't a necessity.
posted by toby, Wed 04 May 2005 10:23:21 PM UTC - 0 replies
We've found a maintainer for the idutils package.
posted by toby, Sat 16 Apr 2005 05:05:01 PM UTC - 0 replies
Mark Wielaard, the GNU Classpath maintainer writes:
I saw an interview with Richard Stallman were he said:
The GNU Project is working on development of free Java
libraries, and a lot of work is being done. But there's a lot
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