Topic: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated - page 282. (Read 1058949 times)

I think people would rather see a simple HTML table that is dynamically updated everyday (draw people to the site) than parse some random csv file and try to extract statistics in their head. How do you know how much each share is worth, where is that written in the charity folder? How do you know how much time there is left to apply for shares for the next round?

Have you given it a while to connect to the network and download the blockchain? If so, is 'Devcoin' listed under 'Applications' in task manager - highlight it and select 'Switch to'. Otherwise check to see if it's in your tray - you can then change the default setting so it doesn't minimise to tray if you want.

Hello,

I'm a newly registered writer for devtome but I can't get a wallet set up properly. I have windows and I've tried the three Windows links here http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=how_to_get_setup_earning_devcoins_by_writing but no luck. When I download the wallet and run it, nothing happens. However, I can run task manager and it appears as a "background" program, but not as a running program.

Thoughts on how to correct this?

Thanks,

Aaron

I cannot quite catch what you need.... for the current round (paying out) info, you should refer to official https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity , and for the next round (that changing from time to time), you may find the infos from http://d.evco.in/charity , and I update the script every day at  about UTC+2.  Isn't that enough?

I still have over 7 hours left until 2014 in my neck of the woods.

The best part is I get to spend it at work.  

Great guys, Devcoin is looking good for 2014 (17 min left here).

Ok I created 1.0.9 and you can download the installer from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/devcoin/files/

The icons were updated.

I think 8 is fair given the fact that I have to redo it because I wasn't sure of which resources to use.. it is not really clear and getting that information is hard. I will keep the testnet ones as they are, they are different color anyway to be clear your not on the main net.

What do you think the bounty should be, having spent the time on it? In the context of what you outlined and what other bounties are 8 seems ok to me, if not others.

I know that it is just a simple download to check the receiver files on a daily basis but does anyone think a daily updated blog would be a good idea? It could be used to make the receiver file information a little less "tech" looking for newbies. I was just thinking this because the information in the file is freely available to the public anyways.

F.Y.I.
It has been my experience over the last week or so that the file is updated between 20:15 and 20:30 CST (GMT -6)

I didn't know what the official logo was so I used what was in the old source repo and then just used what I can find (a logo with transparency intact).

Now that I know the official logo, I will update in 1.0.9.

I posted that because their news section has guidance from their government that trading Bitcoin could be hazardous to their financial health. They then paused all trading a couple of days afterwards. It it not my experience that websites return from these types of things.

I could be very wrong though..

Bittzy78

And here's my investment plan, based on holding Cryptostocks : here.

Ok so you've already done it, seems a bit of work involved.
Someone's going to say this so may as well be me - the problem is you haven't used the devcoin logo.

For all the images, you have to use a tool that supports the 8 bit transparency layer of png images. MSPaint does not work as you will get a white block for your image that looks pretty ugly if used. You have to have a little bit of knowledge on how to manipulate images... some photoshopping experience is probably required to do this.

1)  Created 256x256, 128x128, 64x64, 32x32,16x16 versions of the devcoin logo used as in the qt wallet  https://github.com/sidhujag/devcoin/blob/master/src/qt/res/icons/Devcoin256_X256.png

2) Find the devcoin logo online and convert to icon format. Icon used in taskbar and titlebar of qt. https://github.com/sidhujag/devcoin/blob/master/src/qt/res/icons/devcoinico.ico

3) Testnet version of the devcoin logo by changing the color of the logo internally to orange. https://github.com/sidhujag/devcoin/blob/master/src/qt/res/icons/devcoin_testnet.png

4) Create icon from this png file aswell like step 2.

5) Added qt logo used in about qt of wallet, was using an online url but I put it the icon folder and referred to it from there. It wasn't showing any icon before version 1.0.8 https://github.com/sidhujag/devcoin/blob/master/src/qt/res/icons/devcoin_testnet.png

6) Use devcoin logo to create splashscreen banner when qt starts  up. https://github.com/sidhujag/devcoin/blob/master/src/qt/res/images/splash_Devcoin.png

7) Use devcoin testnet logo to create splashscreen banner when qt starts up in testnet mode. https://github.com/sidhujag/devcoin/blob/master/src/qt/res/images/splash_testnet.png

Overall I believe 11 images were created/modified/handled to complete the task aswell as the changes in the code to support them.

A program is basically a drama, play or screenplay, or maybe choreography: a set of instructions directing actions / movements / activities, albeit the instructions themselves often can be in static form.

-MarkM-

One would have to contact a lawyer experienced with copyright to know how much of a change one would have to make to a piece of literature to call it their own. My guess is that it could be challenged after a certain percentage of it had been changed. This is not the case with Open Source source code.

It is also not the case with music. If you released a piece of music under Open Source I could go through it changing every 8th note (mean the one after 7 not the actual eighth notes) and then copyright it as my own. Granted it would not be exactly like the original piece but it would be darn close. You could not do this with an Open Source program.


The original author as well as many of the audience may feel so; yet that is totally subjective and has nothing to do with Open Source. There is no such value judgement in the license.


That is certainly getting closer yet because of the unique laws surrounding music copyrights tampering can mean you end up owning it and take the finished tampered piece out of Open Source.


Yes, because it would fall under the copyright laws surrounding literature. Yet a modified version of the piece may well not be free and may become proprietary at a certain percentage of change. A lawyer would have to be consulted to confirm that theory.


Software without question. Literature at least in it's original form. Yet releasing to public domain would have the same affect.


Therein is the rub. That is probably why the Creative Commons licensing came into existence. It seems to me a more common sense copyright for pieces of art, be they musical or literary.

- Nova

The logo is marticps one:
http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin_gallery#marticps3
http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin_gallery#marticps2

Bounty: I don't know what's involved so not in a position to guesstimate effort. When I noted the objections it was just to point them out, not to say whether 8 or 4 or whatever is right. What is involved? Do existing files just need resizing or is there a fundamental difference in the art style of new client vs those images?

Here's my investment plan, based on arbitrage. http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=my_crypto_investment_plan_-_arbitrage

All I know that is one of the most amazing poems I have ever read!!!  (my poem)    lol