The idea behind BeClan is very
simple. They gather all the experienced developers on the BeOS platform
and make their collective brains available to the entire community,
with a single point of contact for discussing their development
problems.
Some of the major projects in the community are either done by
BeClan or hosted by them. Examples are the BeOS
Instant Messenger Kit, the Mail
Replacement Daemon and Packager
(a new software distribution system). Other projects are The
News Sniffer, HandBrake
and Vision.
If you want to get your project hosted by BeClan you will have
to sign up as a member. To become an official project, you will
have to apply for a vote among the initial members. All code contributed
to BeClan must be available under an open licence, (ASF/BSD/MIT
style) and not encumbered by GPL or LPGL.
The Beclan Aggregator
is one of the best starting point when it comes to Zeta community
news. The aggregator is a cron job that collects RSS feeds from
some of news sites writing about Zeta (and BeOS in general) and
publishes the headlines with links to the articles. The cron job
set to a 10 minutes interval.
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