Hamza Mousa Looks at Six Free Software Projects
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Fractal Generator: an Open Source Cross-platform Fractal Art Generator
Fractal art is an amazing never-ending pattern. It is a beautiful loop of colors, structures, and shapes organized in a fancy pattern. Fractal art is a computer generated art that uses algorithms to calculate fractal objects then represent them in a digital image, animation, or video.
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This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3
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Setup a Bike Sharing Platform with the Open Source Bike Share Solution
Bike sharing is becoming more popular, for instance, there are several bike sharing startups, and gov sponsored bike and scooter apps and companies, in countries like France, Canada, Turkey, Italy, and Switzerland.
Building a bike sharing software from scratch is a challenge, yet it is possible with some effort and time. However, what if you need to setup a bike sharing system for your city, and you do not have enough resources. Then here is your answer: an Open-source bike sharing system.
The Open Source Bike Share is the world's first low-cost and open source bike sharing system. It is built on top of JavaScript, Laravel Framework (PHP), and Vue Framework.
The system has been used in shared stands in some universities, some cities around the world.
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RadioLogic is an Open Source Medical Imaging Learning Tool for Radiologists
RadioLogic is a case-based learning and self-assessment tool for the Orthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging.
Case-based learning (CBL) is an efficient method for radiologist education. RadioLogic is a system to create clinical-cases from real DICOM files and to provide a self-assessment tool to users to view the studies, submit a diagnosis and compare their performance with other peers. The main components are a progressive web application (RadioLogicTutor) optimized for iPAD's, an Orthanc PACS (RadioLogicArchive) to serve the teaching files and an Orthanc plugin (RadioLogicCreator) to create the clinical teaching cases.
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The Project is released under the GPL-3.0 License as an open-source project which can be modified, cloned, edited, and redistributed.
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GoldenCheetah is The Open-source App Every Serious Cyclist Needs
GoldenCheetah is a desktop performance tracker application for cyclists, runners, triathletes, and coaches. It is built to aid the user analyze, track, and optimize their out- and in-door training.
The program is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS, free of charge. It is an open-source project released under the GPL v2.
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Lavalite is a Laravel based Feature-rich CMS
Lavalite is a free open-source CMS that built on top of Laravel framework. It features a user-friendly admin dashboard that supports mobile small screens, informative dashboard, multilingual support, and a clutter-free interface.
Originally, Lavalite is built for Laravel developers to build custom CMS system on top of it. It can be used as a base CMS for Real-estate, eCommerce, Classified website, yellow pages, and job listing websites.
Developers and even users can easily define a new custom post types, or custom taxonomies without breaking a sweat.
Lavalite comes with a rich developer and user-friendly documentation, that guides the newcomers through the installation process, configuration, and server setup.
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Payload: an Open-source Headless CMS Framework for Enterprise
While Headless CMS solutions are trending, it is not easy to pick the right one for enterprise work. That's not the case with Payload Headless CMS as it is built for enterprise users.
Payload CMS comes with a full support for REST API and GraphQL. It also supports local file storage with a straightforward upload API.
With Payload CMS, developers can set custom post types, custom fields, manage the content history, drafts, and revision with ease, and use the block-based layout editor for building eye-catching rich pages.