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H FOSS Project Candidates
fulfordk edited this page Sep 8, 2015
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1.) Open Trip Planner
- Description from website: “OpenTripPlanner provides a range of passenger information and transportation network analysis features using our infrastructure for finding itineraries combining transit, pedestrian, bike, and car segments.”
- Language: Java / runs on Linux
- Reason for Choosing: This software has been updated recently and contains plenty of good documentation along with a developer's guide. The source code is on GitHub.
2.) FreeNet
- Description from website: “Share files, chat on forums, browse and publish, anonymously and without fear of blocking or censorship!”
- Language: Java / runs on Linux
- Reason for Choosing: This software is interesting and a current concern of privacy and security in technology. It has excellent documentation to make it easy to understand along with tutorials on its website. The source code is on GitHub.
3.) Beets
- Description from website: Beets is “the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks. The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database. Then it provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.”
- Language: Python / runs on Linux/ Ubuntu
- Reason for Choosing: Beets seems interesting and helpful when trying to manage music for the music enthusiast. There is a wealth of documentation included on the website to provide the necessary understanding of the software. The code is found on GitHub.
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4.) Fuzzy Wuzzy
- Description from the website: “[FuzzyWuzzy’s] mission is to pull in event tickets from every corner of the internet, showing you them all on the same screen so you can compare them and get to your game/concert/show as quickly as possible.”
- Language: Python /runs on Linux
- Reason for Choosing: Fuzzywuzzy seems testable because the string comparisons are simple to test using a formula. It is interesting because FuzzyWuzzy was created by seatgeek.com to locate the best ticket deals for events. The code is on GitHub.