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Programming

Submission + - How to put out Open Source development ?

John Smith writes: "I recently won some serious money in a lottery, and am now considering to put it to use by privately buying the development of an open source application. Since I have no programming skills at all, my only option here is to hire a company or individuals to develop the program for me. The thing that I would most be interested in, is the development of additional OpenOffice applications, like the equivalents of Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, and Intuit Quicken. However, I have no idea how to approach this, how to specify requirements, do code reviews, what prices to expect, and how to make sure that the end result gets integrated into the openoffice codebase. I was hoping that the Slashdot community could point me into the right direction ?"
Books

Submission + - Comic Book Artis Michael Turner passes away

lbalbalba writes: After a long battle with cancer, comic book artist Micheal Turner passed away on Friday night in Santa Monica, California. The 37-year-old artist, who was discovered by Image founder Marc Silvestri in 1998, co-created Witchblade before leaving Top Cow to form his own publishing company, Aspen MLT. While still producing his creator-owned titles Fathom and Soulfire, Turner quickly became one of the most recognizable and in-demand cover artists, providing memorable work for DC Comics' Identity Crisis, Marvel's Civil War and numerous other landmark issues and titles, including next month's Uncanny X-Men #500.
Programming

Submission + - Outsourcing new MUD codebase

lbalbalba writes: "Ive just won the lottery, and would like to spend all my hard-earned cash on outsourcing the development of a new GPL licensed text-based MUD codebase with visual editor, something like Profantasy's Campaign Cartographer or Campaing Cartographer (http://www.profantasy.com). Also, I would like it to be able to import areas's from other MUD legacy (CicrcleMUD, Dikumud, TinyMUSH, etc) codebases without problems. Does anyone have any recommendations, comments, or considerations on taking on such a project ?"
Software

Submission + - Specialized software for Historians ?

lbalbalba writes: I was considering to make an attempt to document (some parts of) world history, and was wondering what kind of software would be the most suitable for such a task. I'm assuming it would need at least features like timeline's with the option to mark significant historical areas or occurrences, document some genealogy, and list biographies of important historian figures. But even issues like economics, sociology, politics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy and linguistics come into play when dealing with historiography, as does the ability to include or reference sources. So far, I have been unable to find any software (open source or otherwise) that would be suitable for such a task. Also, this got me wondering about the existence of any kind of specialized software that is used by actual historians ?
Books

Submission + - Comics artist Mike Wieringo deceased

lbalbalba writes: Mike Wieringo, a well known comic books artist who's career includes work for renowned publishers such as Marvel and DC Comics, providing the drawings for well-known comic book characters such as Spider-Man, Superman, and the Fantastic Four, suffered a fatal heart attack on Sunday August 12th, passing away at the age of 44 [1963-2007].

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