Monday, October 21, 2002

Mitch Kapor's Outlook-Killer Mitch Kapor's Outlook-Killer Posted by michael on Sunday October 20, @05:15PM from the ten-paces-turn-and-draw dept. Kent Brewster writes "In the San Jose Mercury this morning: 'For more than a year, [Mitch] Kapor and his small team have been working on what they're calling an open-source "Interpersonal Information Manager." The software is being designed to securely handle personal e-mail, calendars, contacts and other such data in new ways, and to make it simple to collaborate and share information with others without having to run powerful, expensive server computers.'" Kapor explains his intent in his own words.  [Slashdot] 11:16:33 AM

CourseForum 1.0 CourseForum lets you and your students host discussions and share knowledge, adding interaction to your courses. Create, share, and talk about ideas, Q&A, research, student portfolios, project work, and more. CourseForum delivers the ease of use, flexibility, and accountability needed for today's courses.  [freshmeat.net] Keep an eye on this. 11:15:37 AM

Rendering Software Used In LoTR Goes Open Source Posted by Roblimo on Sunday October 20, @09:45AM from the make-your-own-$50,000,000-animated-epic dept. donglekey writes "The software used by Weta to output scenes to be rendered on the LOTR trilogy has been made open source under the Mozilla license. Called Liquid, it outputs from Maya to any Renderman compliant renderer. This is extremely good news as it may quickly become a standard in high end 3D, as well as greasing the wheels for Aqsis, a GPLed Renderman renderer." 11:10:32 AM