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Submission + - Pitivi Video Editor surpasses 50% crowdfunding goal, releases version 0.94

Submitted by kxra on Monday November 10, 2014 @02:10PM

kxra writes: With the latest developments, Pitivi is proving to truly be a promising libre video editor for GNU distributions as well as a serious contender for bringing libre video production up to par with its proprietary counterparts. Since launching a beautifully well-organized crowdfunding campaign (as covered here previously), the team has raised over half of their 35,000 € goal to pay for full-time development and has entered "beta" status for version 1.0. They've released two versions, 0.94 (release notes) being the most recent, which have brought full MPEG-TS/AVCHD support, porting to Python 3, lots of UX improvements, and—of course—lots and lots of bug fixes. The next release (0.95) will run on top of Non Linear Engine, a refined and incredibly more robust backend Pitivi developers have produced to replace GNonLin and bring Pitivi closer to the rock-solid stability needed for the final 1.0 release.

Submission + - MediaGoblin and FSF successfully raise funds for federation, privacy features

Submitted by paroneayea on Friday April 18, 2014 @10:44AM

paroneayea writes: GNU MediaGoblin and the Free Software Foundation have jointly run a campaign for privacy and federation on the web. The campaign is in its last day but has already passed the first two funding milestones, and is hoping to raise more with the possibility of bringing in multiple dedicated resources to the project. The project has also released a full financial transparency report so donors can know how they can expect their money to be used!

Submission + - FLOSS 2013: The survey for Open Source contributors 10 years later (libresoft.es)

Submitted by grex on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @05:53PM

grex writes: In 2002, the first FLOSS survey was launched. With over 2500 participants, it was the first large survey of Open Source developers around the world and had major impact in the community, academia and politics. 10 years later a group of researchers is replicating this survey in order to see how the community has changed. This time not only developers, but all kind of contributors to Open Source projects are asked to participate. How has the community changed in this last 10 years? Are the views the same? Is its composition and focus similar? These type of questions, among others, are the ones this survey is looking for (so far with over 1,000 respondents).

Submission + - How to block the NSA from your friends list (slate.com)

Submitted by Atticus Rex on Monday June 17, 2013 @12:26PM

Atticus Rex writes: The fact that our social networking services are so centralized is a big part of why they fall so easily to government surveillance. It only takes a handful of amoral Zuckerbergs to hand over hundreds of millions of people's data to PRISM.

That's why this Slate article makes the case for a mass migration to decentralized, free software social networks, which are much more robust to spying and interference. On top of that, these systems respect your freedom as a software user (or developer), and they're less likely to pepper you with obnoxious advertisements.

Comment Code, Issue tracker, mailing lists analysis (Score 1) 110

by Laura Arjona on Saturday April 27, 2013 @10:21AM (#43567049) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Assess the Status of an Open Source Project?

You can perform an analysis using the information of activity in the source code, issue tracker and mailing lists, so you get an idea of the history of the project and how is doing in the last term (who are the most active developers, which parts remain unmaintained, how is the activity of the user/developer mailing lists...). Some companies/consultants offer this kind of service. For example Bitergia license their tools as open source (the MetricsGrimoire toolset, among others) so you can extract the metrics yourself, or contract them for a more comprenhensive report.

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