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Open Source Advertising - Sidebar - 1H 2012

It's time once again to support your favorite open source project through our Free Vote-Based Advertising for Open Source Projects. We are clearing the leader boards to start the second half of 2011 anew.

Here is your chance to create a Free Vote-Based Advertisement for an Open Source Project. Create a graphical ad for an open source programming project and post it as an answer to this question (in the right format), and it will feed live remnant ads on Stack Overflow.

Ad Requirements

It must be an advertisement soliciting the participation and contribution of programmers writing actual source code. This is not intended as a general purpose ad for consumer products which just happen to be open source. It's for finding programmers who will help contribute code or other programmery things (documentation, code review, bug fixes, etc.).

Your ad should be an original creation which has not previously appeared on Stack Overflow. Please do not resubmit entries that have appeared as ads on Stack Overflow in previous periods.

In order to work, the answers you post to this question must conform to the following rules.

Answer Template

[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]
    
  [1]: http://image-url
  [2]: http://clickthrough-url

Please do not add anything else to the body of the post. If you want to add any commentary, keep it in the comments.

Image requirements

  • The image that you create must be 220 pixels by 250 pixels
  • Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)
  • Must be GIF or PNG
  • No animated GIFs
  • Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB

The output, which ultimately will be served in an ad slot on Stack Overflow, can be previewed by clicking through to this URL:

http://rads.stackoverflow.com/ossads/220x250

Score Threshold

There is a minimum score threshold an answer must meet (currently 6) before it will be served up by that URL and shown on Stack Overflow. You can see all the ads that currently make the threshold and meet our criteria on this page:

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ads/display/93312

Note: As with previous iterations of this program, entries that have appeared as ads in previous periods are not eligible; however, previous entries that did not meet the minimum score threshold can be resubmitted.

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    I wrote up what I think the ads should do differently here: Open Source ads need a more specific focus
    – Pekka
    Commented Jun 12, 2011 at 17:35
  • Hi, I am new to this Meta site of SO, therefore I have only 1 point for registration. For this reason I cannot add "an answer" below which constains an image. What should I do?
    – esengineer
    Commented Nov 9, 2011 at 8:07
  • @Eye: Earn +200 reputation on one of your associated sites and you will get a 100 reputation bonus here.
    – Robert Cartaino
    Commented Nov 9, 2011 at 14:13

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Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET!

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  • I get bennies from drawing narwhals.
    – user1228
    Commented May 31, 2011 at 17:41
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    @Won And you do it so splendidly!
    – Pollyanna
    Commented Jun 1, 2011 at 0:30
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    Doesn't say anything about the project, this ad would simply confuse me and I'd ignore it
    – TheLQ
    Commented Jun 5, 2011 at 3:46
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    Except you didn't ignore it--you had to comment on it. Advertising isn't always about informing the viewer, it sometimes is about grabbing their attention and sticking in their minds.
    – user1228
    Commented Jun 6, 2011 at 13:27
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    For the record, I just found out about this because narwhals are awesome, so the ad got my attention. Probably the first SO ad I've ever clicked on...
    – Jeff
    Commented Jun 17, 2011 at 4:09
  • Gnarly has a normal belly here. What has he been doing between this, and that recent picture?
    – Pekka
    Commented Jun 26, 2011 at 23:42
  • @Pekka'sseriousaccount: I cannot bring myself to answer this.
    – user1228
    Commented Jun 27, 2011 at 12:39
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    Cute narwhal -- and congrats on the first out-of-network advertisement I've clicked on. :)
    – sarnold
    Commented Jul 4, 2011 at 0:29
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    It got my attention. After that I noticed it was about ELMAH, so I clicked because I like ELMAH. If I didn't know what it is, I might have clicked on it either way...
    – BrunoLM
    Commented Sep 11, 2011 at 19:57
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An Open Source JavaScript IDE

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    JavaScript IDE and Java like cup of coffee seems a bit tongue in cheek. :)
    – George Profenza
    Commented Sep 4, 2011 at 14:35
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Help make tool assisted speedruns of videogames on Windows a reality!

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Roadkill .NET Wiki engine

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  • This ad isn't formatted as required: it is 220x200 instead of 220x250.
    – Grant Thomas
    Commented Sep 2, 2011 at 9:24
  • @Mr. Dissapointment thanks, I've fixed the size + re-uploaded.
    – Chris S
    Commented Sep 3, 2011 at 17:16
  • Good stuff; might get pulled through now. :)
    – Grant Thomas
    Commented Sep 3, 2011 at 20:57
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The easy-to-use Inversion of Control library for .NET and Silverlight

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    That's pretty terrible jpeg quality.. Can you make a png version?
    – Blorgbeard
    Commented Jul 14, 2011 at 11:58
  • @Blorgbeard: Done.
    – Steven
    Commented Jul 14, 2011 at 20:07
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    still terrible ...
    – dynamic
    Commented Jul 26, 2011 at 10:26
  • @yes123: Only the quality of the picture is the nurse is low, which I unfortunately can't improve. The image itself is png without loss of quality. Is that the reason for you to downvote?
    – Steven
    Commented Jul 29, 2011 at 16:11
  • I like the software concept and find the image amusing, so I +1'd it a while ago, but the text still looks stretched or contorted in some way. Can you edit this advert in its native 220x250 px format and type the text directly onto that for better readability? Looking at the text of other adverts and they don't seem to suffer the same degree of artifacts.
    – John K
    Commented Jul 30, 2011 at 0:43
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    I just tried my suggestion to see if it works, and the text seems more legible, even the small stuff at the bottom imageshack.us/photo/my-images/717/samp4lxfx.png I used Paint.NET
    – John K
    Commented Jul 30, 2011 at 0:52
  • @John: Thanks for your reply. I used Paint Shop Pro 7 (I'm a bit old fashion ;-). I think it is the antialiasing of PSP that's the problem. I will retry with Paint.NET. Thanks for the example.
    – Steven
    Commented Jul 30, 2011 at 9:26
  • @John: what do you think about the new image? Better?
    – Steven
    Commented Jul 31, 2011 at 13:42
  • "Addicted" is spelled as "addicted", not as "adicted".
    – AnT stands with Russia
    Commented Jul 31, 2011 at 20:19
  • @Andrey: D'oh! I know that ;-)
    – Steven
    Commented Jul 31, 2011 at 20:20
  • Please vote on the 2012 Advertising: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/114442/…
    – Steven
    Commented Mar 9, 2012 at 8:18
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Contribute To the Ronin Synthesizer Platform

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  • Thank you very much one and all, we really apreciate the help :)
    – Jim
    Commented Oct 31, 2011 at 17:50
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Zeta Resource Editor - edit .NET string resources in parallel

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    When you're done editing resource files, you can come over and paint my shed. :P (Yes, I'm aware that's the project's logo.)
    – ckittel
    Commented Aug 11, 2011 at 19:18
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    Hehe, thanks, I'll try to see whether I get some paint, too :-)
    – Uwe Keim
    Commented Aug 12, 2011 at 4:47

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