On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 21:00, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote: > That's absolutely amazing. :-) Really nice work. > > Is there an open source QR code generator that could be used, rather than > using Google or Kaywa? If there is, then that makes it a lot easier to > persuade the community to adopt this as standard. >
Yes, there are plenty. I was going to suggest that instead of using Google we could have one put up on Toolserver.org, but it looks like you can't hotlink images from wikipedia to toolserver. We could still put it up on Toolserver so Wikimedia projects can use it. Programming libraries: C++ (LGPL) http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/index.en.html Has bindings for Python, Ruby, Haskell and PHP. Java (Apache License) http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ I've updated my user page to have a QR code: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tom_Morris If you want to test your QR code on your computer, there's an AIR app which uses the webcam on your laptop: http://www.dansl.net/blog/?p=256 (Beware Mac users: AIR == Flash, it completely eats your CPU.) -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> Please don't print this e-mail out unless you want a hard copy of it. If you do, go ahead. I won't stop you. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
