Tag: open source

When a Side Project Ends Up in a Scientific Paper

A few years ago I built js8-cli, a small Node.js command line wrapper for JS8Call – the amateur radio digital mode software that lets you send free-form text messages over HF radio using a variant of the FT8 protocol. It sits on top of another project of mine, lib-js8call, and the whole point was simple: pipe text into JS8Call from the command line, so you can script it, automate it, and bolt it onto whatever else you’re building. Weather stations, telemetry, “on air” lights – that sort of thing.

It’s the kind of project that gets a handful of downloads a year, quietly does its job, and doesn’t expect much attention. So it was a genuinely nice surprise to find it cited in a peer-reviewed academic paper.

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BootstrASP – Our first open source project

Trippnology logoWe are very excited to announce our first open source project that we’re calling BootstrASP. It’s a simple framework for building websites with ASP and twitter’s Bootstrap with some added CSS3 candy thrown in for good measure!

You’ll find all the info on the project’s github page. If you spot something wrong, you have an idea for a new feature or you have a better way of doing something, please submit a pull request and we’ll review your code. It’s an ever evolving project and new features are being regularly added.

BootstrASP is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 which means you are free to copy, distribute, hack, slice, make derivatives and even to make commercial use of it provided that you both credit Trippnology and release your work under an identical license. We’re big fans of open source software (and hardware for that matter) so we’re really pleased to be giving a tiny something back to the community.

Let us know what you think in the comments here or on twitter and remember to share this post with your networks.