WinLibre has been selected this year again to be a mentoring organization.

We’re looking for students to join us in making 2009 the best Summer of Code yet!

Google will be offering successful student contributors a 4500 USD stipend, enabling them to focus on their coding projects for three months.

The Google Summer of Code program is designed to encourage student participation in open source development. Kicking off in 2005, the program has several goals:

• Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development
• Provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer
• Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g., distributed development, software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette, etc...)
• Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all
• Help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and committers Google will accept student applications from March 23th to April 3rd 2009.

Full details on requirements for participating, including how to apply and more on the all-important t-shirt at http://socghop.appspot.com/

Find WinLibre proposals for Google Summer of Code 2009.

Any question ? Contact us on IRC irc://irc.freenode.net/winlibre or on this Forum.

Follow us on our WinLibre's twitter account.

Following GSoC 2008 Mentor Summit Hacking Session, we'll focus this year on our package manager development.

You'll find the related informations :

• WinLibre's Idea List
• The actual Source code
• Winlibre's Twitter Account

This is the first Winlibre's Google SUmmer of Code 2008 interim report.

Our start page for this year is http://www.winlibre.com/wiki/doku.php?id=winlibre_soc_2008:start

Vincent Valton has begun his work on Easy Backup Tool

• Proposal
• Project : http://code.google.com/p/easybackuptool/

Konstantin Mikhaylov on WinLibre Package Manager

• Proposal
• Project : http://launchpad.net/winlibrepacman

Ezra Berch on MacLibre v3

• Proposal
• Project : http://code.google.com/p/maclibre/

Students, you can't post your application for the Google summer of Code 2008 anymore.

We are now in the process of reviewing and rating the submitted applications.

We have to wait until Monday, April 21, 2008 for the results...

In 2007 alone, Google Summer of Code(TM) brought together 900 students and nearly 1500 mentors across 90 countries to contribute to over 130 different open source software projects.

WinLibre has been selected this year again to be a mentoring organization.

We’re looking for students to join us in making 2008 the best Summer of Code yet!

Google will be offering successful student contributors a 4500 USD stipend, enabling them to focus on their coding projects for three months.

The Google Summer of Code program is designed to encourage student participation in open source development. Kicking off in 2005, the program has several goals:

• Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development
• Provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer
• Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g., distributed development, software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette, etc...)
• Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all
• Help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and committers Google will accept student applications from 24 to 31 March.

Full details on requirements for participating, including how to apply and more on the all-important t-shirt at http://code.google.com/soc/

Find WinLibre proposals for Google Summer of Code 2008 at http://tinyurl.com/2ze2ob

Any question ? Contact us on IRC irc://irc.freenode.net/winlibre or on the dedicated WinLibre Forum.

Follow us on our WinLibre's twitter account.

Here it is !

Google just announced the 2008 edition of its Summer of Code !

Winlibre would like to particpate this year again. Over the past three years, our participation has lead to great new projects as Infra Recorder or MacLibre...

So here is our 2008 proposal page. Feel free to interact with us to improve these proposal !

OpenTouch is a solution for multi-modal application development. The goal of this software project is to create an open source framework that will be able to handle and process input from multi-modal devices such as multitouch screens based on FTIR. It should allow for gestural, multiple point interfaces, and a non-programming approach to gesture prototyping. The OpenTouch platform aims to be a layer between the input device and the final GUI application. It's designed to be cross-platform with support for internal and external applications as simple application gateway, blob tracking, gesture recognition and much more.

Open Touch was first developped by Pawel during the Google Summer of Code 2007, mentored by WinLibre.

Enjoy his impressive latest video:

The GPL'ed source code is at http://code.google.com/p/opentouch/

A new Gimp, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, has been released.

New Features:

• Refreshed Look and Menus
• Scalable Brushes
• New Selection and Align Tools
• Color Management and Soft-proofing
• and a lot more !

Download it now.

A new version OpenOffice 2.3 is officially released.

• New chart wizard, with support for 3D Charts
• Revamped Toolbars
• Export documents as Wiki pages on OpenOffice 2.3 Writer
• Enhanced Autosum on OpenOffice 2.3 Calc
• Report Builder on OpenOffice 2.3 Base

Release Notes

Pwytter is a free Twitter client.

It's running on Windows, Mas OS X and Linux.

The 0.7 release now supports UTF-8 characters (asian languages, ...).

The user interface is available in English and in French.

• Download Pwytter

Good news : Winlibre has been selected to be a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code 2007 !!!!

Attention all students: you can now submit your applications to Google's Summer of Code program for 2007. Google pays each successful student $4,500 USD.

• WinLibre's list of proposed projects

Infra Recorder 0.42, the free CD/DVD burning solution for Windows has been released.

In this release:

• bugs corrections
• Windows Vista support
• 32-bit and 64-bit builds

Try this quality sofware, first developped during the Winlibre's participation in Google Summer of Code 2006.

Here are the two new releases for Inkscape and Blender :

• Inkscape 0.45, release notes
• Blender 2.43, release notes

What's New in Firefox 2

• Visual Refresh: Firefox 2's theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability without altering the familiarity of the browsing experience.
• Built-in phishing protection: Phishing Protection warns users when they encounter suspected Web forgeries, and offers to return the user to their home page. Phishing Protection is turned on by default, and works by checking sites against either a local or online list of known phishing sites. This list is automatically downloaded and regularly updated when the Phishing Protection feature is enabled.
• Enhanced search capabilities: Search term suggestions will now appear as users type in the integrated search box when using the Google, Yahoo! or Answers.com search engines. A new search engine manager makes it easier to add, remove and re-order search engines, and users will be alerted when Firefox encounters a website that offers new search engines that the user may wish to install.
• Improved tabbed browsing: By default, Firefox will open links in new tabs instead of new windows, and each tab will now have a close tab button. Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single window will see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that let them scroll back and forth between their tabs. The History menu will keep a list of recently closed tabs, and a shortcut lets users quickly re-open an accidentally closed tab.
• Resuming your browsing session: The Session Restore feature restores windows, tabs, text typed in forms, and in-progress downloads from the last user session. It will be activated automatically when installing an application update or extension, and users will be asked if they want to resume their previous session after a system crash.
• Previewing and subscribing to Web feeds: Users can decide how to handle Web feeds (like this one), either subscribing to them via a Web service or in a standalone RSS reader, or adding them as Live Bookmarks. My Yahoo!, Bloglines and Google Reader come pre-loaded as Web service options, but users can add any Web service that handles RSS feeds.
• Inline spell checking: A new built-in spell checker enables users to quickly check the spelling of text entered into Web forms (like this one) without having to use a separate application.
• Live Titles: When a website offers a microsummary (a regularly updated summary of the most important information on a Web page), users can create a bookmark with a "Live Title". Compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and are regularly updated with the latest information. There are several websites that can be bookmarked with Live Titles, and even more add-ons to generate Live Titles for other popular websites.
• Improved Add-ons manager: The new Add-ons manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, combining them both in a single tool.
• JavaScript 1.7: JavaScript 1.7 is a language update introducing several new features such as generators, iterators, array comprehensions, let expressions, and destructuring assignments. It also includes all the features of JavaScript 1.6.
• Extended search plugin format: The Firefox search engine format now supports search engine plugins written in Sherlock and OpenSearch formats and allows search engines to provide search term suggestions.
• Updates to the extension system: The extension system has been updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
• Client-side session and persistent storage: New support for storing structured data on the client side, to enable better handling of online transactions and improved performance when dealing with large amounts of data, such as documents and mailboxes. This is based on the WHATWG specification for client-side session and persistent storage.
• SVG text: Support for the svg:textpath specification enables SVG text to follow a curve or shape.
• New Windows installer: Based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, the new Windows installer resolves many long-standing issues.

Source: Mozilla Firefox 2 Release Notes

MacLibre 2 has been released.

MacLibre is a Mac OS X free software distribution.

MacLibre 2 has been developped by Pawel Solyga during the Google Summer of Code 2006, mentored by the WinLibre's team.

• MacLibre.com
• MacLibre's Screenshots

MacLibre 2 is a “Universal” application.

Included software

• Create : Audacity, Blender, Gimp, Inkscape
• Internet : Adium, Colloquy, Cyberduck, Fire, Firefox, Nvu, Thunderbird, Vienna
• Multimedia : HandBrake, MPlayer, VLC
• Office : AbiWord, NeoOffice
• Utilities : ClamXav, DesktopManager, iTerm, VirtueDesktops, X11

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