safwan

Seems like they do not have any status page or backup channel!

f-string does not work with GNU/gettext! It is also a common mistake that people make!

I am building an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool which is going to be Open Source. It is very early stage now, just started yesterday so can not provide any link. I hope I can make a alpha release soon!

Odoo is good alternative

The reason of not having a open source alternative of CAD is not having proper domain knowledge. The people who have the domain knowledge are not taking that intiative that the early stage software engineers took.

> So you may need to refine your goals a little: Do you want to (a) fill a gap where no viable OSS exists, or (b) help OSS dethrone proprietary software in some category, e.g. Photoshop?

Filling a gap where not OSS exists. I was trying to understand the gap. Like, many people are saying there are huge gap in CAD technologies, but this can be only solved by the persons who have domain knowledge, like Civil Engineers. Unless the people having the domain knowledge does not agree to volunteer or take the inatiative, no one will see any progress in that field.

> I think there's some wisdom in the notion that the best OSS project idea is one that solves a problem you have

Yeah, it is true. Like I am facing about a problem with APM that there are no or open core alternative of proprietary. Untill this post, I did not know other people are also thinking about its need.

Your article is really interesting! I did not know about Aspera before reading it.

I did not have any idea that changing protocol will have this amount of benefit in data transmission. Also amused that no one have not solved it in Open Source world.

CAD software like AutoCad does not have any good Open Source alternative. As it is mostly used by Civil Engineers, I think when the Civil Engineers will motivated by the Open Source manifesto, they will approach making soemthing good alternative of CAD software!

What are the closed source softwares that are used for this purpose?

That is really True. The APM world does not have any good open source alternative, Elastic APM is ok, but I think it is open core, not open source. Sentry is trying to build one, but maybe that will not be also OSI approved license.

It is about existing open source projects. It would be better to have some idea about new open source projects that are not started yet but needed by the community.

Firefox will block all the tracking cookie! So can not apply to me! ;)