OpenG.org: Home of the LabVIEW Open Source Community

OpenG.org is a community of LabVIEW developers that are committed to the development and use of open source tools for LabVIEW. They produce several libraries, such as an application build tool, package management tool, installer builder, and a plethora of reuse libraries that are collectively referred to as the OpenG Toolkit. You can find more information about OpenG, as well as download the tools, at http://openg.org (the OpenG.org web site is shown in Figure C.1).

Figure C.1. The OpenG.org web site

Installing the OpenG Tools is very easysimply download and install OpenG Commander (click on the "Get OpenG Commander" button on the OpenG.org home page) and choose which packages you wish to install. OpenG Commander will download them directly from the Internet and install them directly into your Functions palette!

Figure C.2 shows some of the OpenG tools installed in the Functions palette.

Figure C.2. Some of the OpenG libraries installed in the palettes

OpenG Commander will also let you know when there are new versions of packages available. Sounds great, doesn't it? And, the best part about OpenG.org is that all the tools are created by people just like you! They are sharing and collaborating to help make programming LabVIEW applications easy and fun, and isn't that the point? If you are interested in participating in OpenG.org, visit their web site (http://openg.org) and join in on the discussion forumsthey're all friendly and talented LabVIEW developers who enjoy working with others.

It's also worth mentioning that some features in LabVIEW are inspired by work done by OpenG. So, participation in LabVIEW is another way that you can help make LabVIEW a better programming language!