Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. It works as: a mailing list, a discussion forum and a long-form chat room. Why break conversations into awkward and arbitrary pages, where you have to constantly find the Next Page button? They’ve replaced all that with the power of just-in-time loading. Want to read more? Keep scrolling down.
When someone quotes your post, they’ll notify you. When someone mentions your @name, they’ll notify you. When someone replies to your post… well, you get the idea. And if you’re not around, they’ll email you, too. Reply from anywhere. Discourse is a simple, flat forum, where replies flow down the page in a line. Expand context at the bottom and top of each post to discover the full conversation – without breaking your flow. You can even expand quotes.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.discourse.org/
License: GPL License
Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms. You can own an open source Slack-like chat. Note that Rocket.Chat is distributed under the MIT License.
Requirements: Meteor Framework
Demo: http://rocket.chat/
License: MIT License
Codrops has shared a fun little color extraction experiment with us. The idea is to create a color palette from an image with a subtle effect on the image itself and some fanciness on the palette.
They are using Vibrant.js by Jari Zwarts to extract the colors from the images, and CSS Filters to transition the image to a black and white version. They also implemented a simple slider with a special “curtain†effect. Please note that this experiment uses some CSS properties that might not work in older browsers (CSS Animations, CSS Filters) though.
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Demo: http://tympanus.net/Development/ColorExtraction/
License: License Free
Tabio is a Chrome extension designed to make managing lots of browser tabs significantly easier. The search feature allows you to quickly and easily find the tab you’re looking for. Tabio makes it easy to organize your tabs. Simply drag and drop to reorder. You can also use the enter, delete and arrow keys to navigate your tabs without leaving the keyboard. Best of all, Tabio is open source.
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Demo: http://colebemis.github.io/tabio/
License: MIT License
The DO UI kit is now available for free for Photoshop & Sketch! It’s got over 130 stunning screens, 10 complete themes, and 250+ components to mix and match to create stunning apps. They are all remixable and retina ready. Best of all, they look very clean and colorful, which makes it perfect fit for today’s flat aesthetic.
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Demo: http://www.invisionapp.com/do
License: License Free
Fonts present us with imagery that enhances the theme or distracts from it, utilizing the Big Font Bundle, enables online licensing that offers options with real time visual cues to the style you want. The visual balance within the media presentation has everything to do with the Font. A complete feeling can be transmitted at first glance.
This Big 50 Font Bundle is accessible on all programs, some fonts offer dingbats and/or ornaments, many of them include extra design features and some of them include open type features.
An amazing value for both the beginner and experienced project designer, this font package allows the art to be expressed by the imagery of the words, enhancing the emotional style with each statement. Increase production with the ease of selection and delivery. This amazing The Big 50 Font Bundle is available for just $29. Hurry, as this offer of 96% off the $850 retail price is only available for the month of June.
Sassline sets text on the web to a baseline grid with Sass & rems using a responsive modular-scale. Sassline aims to spread better typography across the web. It can be used for prototyping, blogs or full website builds. It has recommended base typography styles and Sass mixins to work proportionally from the baseline grid using rems.
Due to the way CSS handles text setting a baseline grid on the web is tricky. Sassline does all the heavy lifting and gives you near print level typographic control. Easily align text across columns and use a precise vertical rhythm based on the baseline grid. Sassline lets you set a modular-scale for each of your breakpoints and easily work from these values to size your type. This combined with the baseline grid allows you to have harmonious proportions across all aspects of your website.
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Demo: https://sassline.com/
License: MIT License
Google introduced the Roboto font nearly four years ago as part of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Since then, it’s grown to be the default for Android and Chrome OS, and it’s a big part of Google’s overall Material Design language that we’re seeing spread across many of its web services as well. Google has announced that their signature font “Roboto†is now officially free to use by any e-reader company.
The font family supports all Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek characters in Unicode 7.0, as well as the currency symbol for the Georgian lari, to be published in Unicode 8.0. The fonts are currently available in eighteen different styles.
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Demo: https://github.com/google/roboto
License: License Free
Let’s Chat is like #Slack, but opensource and self-hosted. It is a persistent messaging application that runs on Node.js and MongoDB. It’s designed to be easily deployable and fits well with small, intimate teams. It’s free (MIT licensed) and ships with killer features such as LDAP/Kerberos authentication, a REST-like API and XMPP support.
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Demo: https://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/
License: MIT License
Business has evolved! No longer are entrepreneurs, business owners, project managers and freelancers chained to their desks! Savvy business people around the globe have discovered the freedom of working from anywhere and everywhere!
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The Enterprise Plan Package encompasses all the standard and premium features available. With the Enterprise Plan Package, you can have unlimited users. You can have unlimited clients. You have full Enterprise support. This is in addition to the unlimited projects, invoicing and tracking already offered to all customers. The value of each of these prize packages is $359.70. ($59.95 per month X 6 months) And for three lucky clients these will be provided zero cost to them! For six months, maximize profits. For half a year, discover where profits are leaking. For six months, run your business with the freedom you have always wanted. Take full advantage of technology made available by the best professionals in the industry. It just doesn’t get any better!
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Winners (Updated: 6th June 2015)
1. Bara Alexandru
2. deeftah
3. Diogo Costa
