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About Linux developers

Published by jgb on

The Linux Foundation is publishing reports on who and how is developing the Linux kernel. How it is growing, an analysis of corporate contribution, etc. It seems that about 1,000 developer are working for each release, some of which are hired by about 200 companies. The average contribution is about 10 patches per developer per release (although the distribution vary a lot, as expected).

Immediate tag mode developed

Published by rroman on

There is a new tagging mode in the augmented reality section of LibreGeoSocialApp: the "Immediate" mode. It assigns the user's position to the resource we want to tag.

 

How to

 

An user only have to do the following steps for tagging an object in this mode:

Real View

  1. Select "Tag resource" menu entry in Real view activity.
  2. Choose "Immediate" option.
  3. Touch the screen.

 

Valuation

 

Positive aspects:

LibreSoft meets twitter

Published by lcanas on

My code skills are becoming rusty, I'll have to have a look again to those huge programming books next to the TFT. In the meanwhile here you have a silly script to update a twitter account each hour (with a cron job) from Plone XML feeds.

 

Privacy in LibreGeoSocial

Published by jcaden on

LibreGeoSocial now supports applications

Published by jcaden on

If you like LGS and you are thinking about use it but you miss some functionality, there is no problem, now is much simple to use and customize it.

I have been working on a new system that autodiscovers applications placed in the apps directory and automatically includes them in the system. Also external libraries are supported and, of course, automatically added to the path, so if you want to develop an application for LGS you only have to be aware of your application issues forgetting every configuration or path problems.

Map tag mode developed

Published by rroman on

Users have a new way to tag their reality objects for LGS: the "Map mode". They can select it from "Tag resource" mode in real view activity. These are some features:

  • Map rotated to fit the user's orientation.
  • Explicit range of vision overlay.
  • Tap mode to select the reality object.
  • Zoom bar showed when long screen pressing.
  • Satellite and map mode toggle menu option.

 

How to

 

An user only have to do the following steps for tagging an object in this mode:

Investigadores de la URJC desarrollan un software libre para móviles que permite ‘etiquetar’ virtualmente el mundo real

Published by rocapal on

Los usuarios pueden vincular contenidos multimedia a un objeto apuntando con el teléfono

Fast tag mode improved

Published by rroman on

Today the mode "Fast", which I explained yesterday, has been improved, giving the users a chance to decide the distance of the target they want to tag. By default, for faster tagging, the distance is 1 meter, but using a seek bar showed over the screen, users can modify this parameter in a range from 1 meter to 500 meters, making this mode more useful.

 

Improvements:

  • Variable distance tagging.