The Android project has released an early-look software developer kit for Android 1.5. Developers can use the SDK to try out the new version of Android and also start creating mobile applications for the final Android 1.5 SDK release that is expected around the end of this month.

For several years, SourceForge has been the standard for open source projects. There wasn’t any competition as fulfilling the needs of a demanding open source community is anything but simple. SourceForge has done exceptionally well for so long, but now there’s an alternative.

Ted Leung has been working in the IT industry for more than two decades. He is the author of the book “XML Development with Apache Tools” also he has been actively involved with Apache Software Foundation and Open Source Applications Foundation. In this interview, he tells us about his projects, his views on Open Source and Python-XML combination.

Coverity, makers of a source code analysis solution, today announced preliminary findings showing that open source developers fixed a software defect every six minutes in the week following Coverity’s analysis that established a baseline metric for software quality.

ZAPP (Zope Amendment Production Platform) is built on the Zope open source application server. It will be released as an open source project,Hosted on Linux and AMD Opteron systems. The application is Made up of Python, Zope, Kupu, rsync, and other open source software. It will be Used by over 800 planners and administrators across Victoria. They can load Over 24GB of initial data and 500 amendments per year, Thousands of pages of content.