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http://moodle.org/ Moodle is the world's most popular Open Source Course Management System designed to help educators create and manage effective online learning communities, with rich interaction opportunities. Visit the SOS of Texas Moodle, Cornell's Moodle Documentation or Moodle's demo for more information.

http://cnx.org/ Connexions is a rapidly growing collection of
free scholarly materials and a powerful set of free software
tools to help authors publish and collaborate, instructors rapidly
build and share custom courses and learners explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines.

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ Apple's open source
projects allow developers to customize and enhance key Apple software. Through the open source model, Apple engineers
and the open source community collaborate to create better,
faster and more reliable products for our users.

http://www.apache.org/ The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source
software projects.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/ BBC's Open Source page is
a repository of projects they have developed and made public
by open source licensing.

http://www.cetis.ac.uk/ CETIS: centre for educational
technology interoperability standards.

http://www.codeweavers.com/ CodeWeavers' mission is to transform Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems. By doing so, they provide a bridge to help users migrate from the Windows software world to these other environments. They do this primarily by making it possible to
use Windows software on Mac OS X and Linux.

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html What is CopyLeft?

http://www.opensourcetext.org/ COSTP - California Open
Source Textbook Project has been created to address the
high cost, content range, and consistent shortages of K-12 textbooks. See their 10th grade Social Studies prototype.

http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons is a licensing
site enabling the legal sharing and reuse of cultural, educa-
tional and scientific works.

http://www.debian.org/ Debian is a free operating system (OS)
for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic
programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian
uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but
most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence
the name GNU/Linux.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/newto/
DeveloperWorks (IBM) places all the basics of open source in context to help you get started in the most wide-ranging,
growing, and dynamic field of software development today.
The developerWorks Open source zone is your source for how-
to information, tools, and project updates.

http://dmoz.org/ The Open Directory Project - information.

http://www.opensourcematters.org/ Open Source Matters - Joomla, is a free, award-winning content management
system written in PHP which is allows users to easily publish
their content on the world wide web and intranets. Joomla is created as an open-source project where individuals and
teams contribute their skills to its development as well as its supporting systems.

http://code.google.com/projects.html Open Source Projects
@ GOOGLE - Google is now hosting Open Source projects...

http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_refs.html Open Source
Software /Free Software (OSS/FS) References.

http://www.edu-nix.org/ EDU-Nix Open Source Schoolware
aims to provide U.S. Public Schools with Open-Source alterna-
tives to expensive proprietary software products. The project
will consist initially of a redistributable CD that has both a
live CD environment, as well as Windows versions of the office
and productivity programs.

http://bumpontheblog.etowns.net/ and Open Sourcing in West
Texas are educational BLOG samples.

http://www.egovos.org/Resources The Center for Open Source and Government.

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/ Equivalency: Linux and Windows software

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Firefox empowers PC,
Mac and Linux users to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser. Award-winning Firefox includes an integrated pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, support for open standards, a skinnable interface
and an extension mechanism for adding functionality.

http://www.fossevaluation.com/ Research solutions supporting Free and open source software (FOSS).

http://shedreamsindigital.pbwiki.com/ FossWiki - Freeware and
Open Source Software ( Grouped by category in alphabetical
order)

http://www.fossfa.net/fossfa The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) is an organization
that was formed to promote the use of Open Source software
in Africa.

http://www.freedomtoaster.org/ The Freedom Toaster is a
project designed to provide CDs to areas where internet access
might be difficult

http://freshmeat.net/ Freshmeat maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software, themes and related "eye-candy", and Palm OS software.

http://www.fsf.org/ The Free Software Foundation (FSF), established in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs.

http://directory.fsf.org/ FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory.

http://gimp.org/ The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such
tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

https://edu-gelc.dev.java.net/nonav/index.html GELC - Global Education and Learning Community, an effort to improve
global education by empowering teachers, students and
parents with self-paced, web based, free and open content (curriculum resources, assessment) combined with best
practices for advancing student achievement world wide.

http://www.gnome.org/ GNOME is a Unix and Linux desktop
suite and development platform.

http://www.gnu.org/ The GNU Project was launched in 1984
to develop a complete UNIX style operating system which is
free software: the GNU system.

http://opensource.hp.com/ HP has over 200 products that ship with open source software. From client to server to data center, they are developing, improving and perfecting hundreds of
open source applications every day.

http://www.k12opensource.com/Interviews. Weekly podcasts
a library of recordings that provide good, brief introductions to different educational technologies that can be implemented in
the K-12 school environment.

http://java-source.net/ Open Source Software in Java(tm).

http://k12edcom.org/ K12EdCom promotes and publishes OpenCourseWare for K12 schools.

http://k12ltsp.org/ K12 Linux is a repository of several pro-
jects using Linux as their main operating system. Once
installed K12LTSP lets you boot diskless workstations from
an applications server. You can use old PC's as diskless clients
or buy low-power new ones for considerable energy savings.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/K12opensourcesmp3 K12OpenSources Feed is a PODCAST feeding K12 content.

http://www.kde.org/ KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations. It
combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority
of the Unix operating system.

http://kiaoracd.org.nz The kiaora project is an effort to provide
Open Source applications for PC users from a bootable CD. It
complements similar efforts like http://theopencd.org/ and
others.

http://www.koha.org/ Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is
steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals.

http://www.knoppix.net/ Knoppix is a GNU/Linux distribution
that boots and runs completely from cd. It includes recent
linux software and desktop environments, with programs such
as OpenOffice.org, Abiword, The Gimp, Konqueror, Mozilla, Apache, PHP, MySQL and hundreds of other quality open
source programs.

http://konqueror.org/ Konqueror is the file manager for the
K Desktop Environment. It supports basic file management
on local UNIX filesystems, from simple cut/copy and paste operations to advanced remote and local network file browsing.

http://www.linux.org/ The linux.org domain was registered to fulfill a need for information about the growing Linux move-
ment. This web site is designed to act as a central source of
Linux information and as a voice for the promotion and
advocacy of the Linux operating system.

http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/ Loads of Linux Links.

http://www.opensourcemac.org/ Free, open-source software for Mac OS X.

http://source.mambo-foundation.org/ Mambo is an Open
Source Content Management System (CMS) with a reputation
as a stable, supported and scalable application.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki is a free
software package originally written for Wikipedia. It provides
the popular Wiki web page environ.

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm MERLOT - Multi-
media Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
puts educational innovation into practice by making available
peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials.

http://www.metadot.com/ Metadot is an open source portal software (GPL) used to create websites, intranets, extranets, project and community portals anyone can use.

http://mozilla.org The mission of the Mozilla project is to
preserve choice and innovation on the Internet, developing the next generation of web browsers, e-mail software, web page editors and more.

http://www.mysql.com/ MySQL is an attractive alternative to higher-cost, more complex database technology. Its award- winning speed, scalability and reliability make it the right choice for corporate IT departments, Web developers and packaged software vendors.

http://www.nanotitan.com/ nanoTITAN offers open source Java libraries free of charge to anyone who would like to use them.

http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/ NASA Open Source
Agreement distributes software in order to increase NASA's software quality via community peer review, accelerate software development via community contributions, maximize the awareness and impact of NASA research and increase dissemination of NASA software in support of NASA's education mission.

http://newsvac.newsforge.com/ The Online Newspaper for
linux and Open Source.

http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice.org is the leading international office suite that runs on all major platforms and provides access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and XML-based file formats.

http://www.netc.org/openoptions/index.html Open Options is
a place to visit when it is time to make decisions about Open
Source Software.

http://www.opensourceacademy.gov.uk/ OpenSourceAcademy
is a UK government effort to encourage the use of Open Source Software by local authorities through knowledge sharing and practical advice.

http://links.episd.org/Peru_MS.html Open Source advocacy in
Peru - a must read article containing a rebuttal to Microsoft's fallacious arguments used against open source software in the
past.

http://www.opensourcecms.com/ OpenSourceCMS gives you
the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world.

http://osdir.com/ (Stable Open Source apps) Open Source and Linux News & Software.

http://osflash.org/ Open Source FLASH is a watering hole for
open source Flash developers and users to meet, talk about
and contribute to new and existing open source projects for
the flash platform.

http://osswin.sourceforge.net/ Open Source for Windows is
an extensive site providing Windows-compatible software by categories: Audio Editing Tools, Business Software, CAD...

http://www.opensourcefreecd.org Open Source Free CD for
Windows.

http://www.osportfolio.org/ Open Source Portfolio Initiative
(OSPI) is a community of individuals and organizations colla-
borating on the development of the leading non-proprietary,
open source electronic portfolio software available.

http://www.oscom.org/projects/ OSCOM - The international association for Open Source Content Management, connecting
users and developers of Open Source Content Management solutions.

http://www.oswd.org/ OSWD - Open Source Web Design is a
site to download free web designs and share yours with others.
Their motto: "We help make the internet a prettier place".

http://www.devshed.com/ Dev Shed is an Open Source Web Development site with a comprehensive set of pertinent
articles and forums.

http://www.oss-institute.org/ The Open Source Software
Institute (OSSI) is a non-profit organization comprised of
corporate, government and academic representatives whose
mission is to promote the development and implementation
of open-source software solutions within U.S. federal, state
and municipal government agencies and academic entities.

http://www.perl.org/ Perl is a stable, cross platform program-
ming language. It is used for mission critical projects in the
public and private sectors and is widely used to program web applications of all needs.

http://www.php.net/ PHP is a widely-used general-purpose
scripting language that is especially suited for Web development
and can be embedded into HTML.

http://plone.org/ PLONE is a popular Content Managment
System web application that is designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and, well, manage a website.
Plone is the backbone of Connexions.

http://www.postgresql.org/ PostgreSQL is a highly-scalable,
SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system.

http://us1.samba.org/samba/ Samba is an Open Source /Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available under the GNU
General Public License.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ SeaMonkey is a Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor made simple -- all your Internet needs
in one application.

http://oss.sgi.com/ The Developer Central portal to all SGI
Open Source material. Wanderers, seekers, and developers
are offered this gateway to Open Source technical content and
advice, libraries of downloadable software, contribution points,
email lists, and links to the Open Source community.

http://softwarefor.org/ Software for Starving Students provides
Windows and Mac desktops with free, high quality software that
installs via a user-friendly interface.

http://www.sosoftexas.org/joomla/ SOS - Strategic Open
Source of Texas' mission is to build and activate a community
of educators who promote and support opportunities for technological advancement and a broader educational
foundation that Open Source software solutions bring to K-16 education.

http://paulhami.edublogs.org/productivity/ Special Education -
Free Resources from the Net.

http://www.dir.state.tx.us/standards/srrpub09.htm State of Texas Open Source - Standards Review and Recommendation Publication.

http://www.tigris.org/ The Tigris Mission: Promoting Open
Source Software Engineering.

http://sourceforge.net/ SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development website, with the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on
the Internet.

http://sourcewell.berlios.de/ Open Source Software Announcement & Retrieval.

http://www.fsfeurope.org/ Free Software Foundation Europe.

http://www.spi-inc.org/ SPI is a non-profit organization which
was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software.

http://www.netraverse.com/ If the one thing stopping you
from making the transition to Linux is the need to run
"essential" Windows-based applications then you do not need
to wait any longer Win4Lin has just solved your problem.

http://www.winehq.com/ Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs
to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.

http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/ TheOpenCD is a collection of
high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs
run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as
word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web
design, and image manipulation.

http://www.xfree86.org/ The XFree86 Project, Inc is a global volunteer organisation which produces XFree86, a freely redistributable open-source implementation of the X Window
System . XFree86 runs primarily on UNIX® and UNIX-like
operating systems like Linux, all of the BSD variants, Sun
Solaris both native 32 and 64 bit support, Solaris x86, Mac OSX
(via Darwin), SGI's Irix as well as other platforms like OS/2
and Cygwin.

http://www.w3.org/Status The natural complement to W3C specifications is running code. Implementation and testing is
an essential part of specification development and releasing
the code promotes exchange of ideas in the developer
community. Browse all W3C software -it's Open Source/
Free Software, and GPL compatible.

http://www.plainblack.com/webgui WebGUI is an Open
Source content management platform built to give average
business users the ability to build and maintain complex web
sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It is designed to keep the management of content in the hands of
those who create content.

http://www.videolan.org/ VLC Media Player is a free cross
platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, more) that supports
a large number of multimedia formats and can even be used
as a streaming server.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source Open source or open-source software (OSS) is any computer software
distributed under a license which allows users to change
and/or share the software freely. Many programs use a
specific license agreement satisfying the Open Source
Definition.

http://www.opensource.org/ Open Source Initiative (OSI).

Wikipedia's List of Open Source Software

http://www.opensourcewindows.org/ Free and open-source
software for Windows.

http://edge-op.org/grouch/schools.html Why should open
source software be used in schools?

Listen to Podcasts about Open Source:
Interview with John MadDog Hall
Interview with Alan Hodson
Interview with Paul Nelson

Sites with Open Source resources, information or applications. A BLOG with the same type of content

Sites with Open Source resources, information or applications.
A BLOG with the same type of content