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

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.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.joomla.org- 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) Scholarly reference site.

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

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/ Equivalency: What Linux and
Open Source applications are the same as 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 integrated pop-up blockers, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, support for open standards, a skinnable interfaces
and extension mechanisms for adding functionality.

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

http://www.fossfa.net/ 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 and their source.

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

http://gimp.org/ The GIMP is a powerful 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.

The education community @ java.net Java.net, 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 an easy to understand 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.

Open Source and Linux from HP 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.

EdTech Live Interviews. Steve Hargadon's library of recordings that provide good, brief introductions to different educational technologies that can be implemented in the K-12 school environment. Future of Education has more recent talks.

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

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

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://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://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://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://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.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 manage-
ment 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://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/ State of Texas Open Source - Standards Review and Recommendation Publication (search).

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 Announce-
ment & 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://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?

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