With some thought I decided to give CalcForge.org a complete makeover in addition to the project management system being added in the near future.

Here is what we thought out:
-Use a modified version of PHP-Fusion for Home Page, news, Articles, Project Listing, File Archives, etc.
-Use a modified version of phpBB3 for the forum, as it seems to have some features now
-Use Trac for project management that will include an SVN repository for each project.
-Possibly have a mailman server for project mailing lists.
-Write a custom control panel to manage to manage CalcForge.org User accounts so the same username and password works for the Main Website, forum, and all projects for bug reporting, etc.

I am pleased to announce that the long awaited project management system for CalcForge.org will soon be launched. While a colleauge and I had planned the Project Management system for CalcForge.org back in January I will finally have time to implement it hopefully by the end of the month. The system will consist of a trac environment for each project that will have: a wiki, time release schedule, file management system, front page blog, forum, bug tracker and a svn repository.

CalcForge.org is now back up after an improvement to the captcha system during registration and the removal of all links to pornographic content. Sorry for the down time and inconvenience.

Thanks to Romain Liévin the CalcForge.org Software Repository for Linux users now provides all LPG Software available to Debian users in the form of a repository which will allow Debian users to easily install and upgrade any LPG Software. Instructions on setting up the repository are available at http://repo.calcforge.org/debian/.

With about 6 weeks of downtime, and lots of headaches setting up DNS, FTP and the Mail Server, CalcForge.org is finally back online.

We have also made a few changes:

1. The Contact Us page now gives information on how to connect to the TIGCC IRC Channel.
2. We now have an RPM Repository for Fedora Core 6 developers. This repository is home of many development tools such as TiLP-II, TiEmu3, TIGCC, KTIGCC, their libraries, etc. These are located at http://repo.calcforge.org.

I have posted a poll that I would like all members to vote in determining hopefully CalcForges successful future.

Also I have added some new themes to CalcForge and made appropiate header images for the themes. If you are a member you can change the current theme in your profile.

TI-Freakware is happy to annouce their first ever programming contest. Registration will be open until the end of July and the programs are due in November. This contest features some pretty good prizes: TI-89T Calculator (1st Place), TI-83+ Blue (2nd Place) and a TI Keyboard. For more information on this contest check out their website: http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/

The TiLP Team has recently TiLP-II 0.13 beta which now incorporates new features. This version of TiLP-II includes the bug fix for that 83+ ROM Dumper, Flash Archive and RAM Space Used and thing everyone has been waiting for, DirectUSB Cable Support for the 84+ and 89T. You can get the latest version of TiLP-II here.

I have recompiled Windows Binaries for SkinEdit 20060518 and TiEmu3 20060518 and uploaded them to the website. There will probably be no updates in the near future because official Snapshots may be compiled in the near future. Hope these up-to-date binaries help you out :).

I have uploaded the Windows TiEmu 3/Skin Edit 20060507 Binary onto CalcForge! It was built with and requires GTK+ 2.6.10-rc1 runtime and all you have download it and run the installer by clicking here.

I have also updated all the source code except for Tilem to be up to date as off May 18, 2006. I also got rid of the .svn directories in those source files. I will get to TiEmu3 20060518 Binary later on.