Advocacy

Linux Today: Emmett Plant - The Welcome Wagon Linux Today: Emmett Plant - The Welcome Wagon- Urges initiative and good manners to promote open source. CLUE CLUE- The Canadian Association for Open Source. The Halloween Document The Halloween Document- Microsoft are getting very worried indeed about competition from Open Source Software such as Linux. This leaked internal memo, courtesy of Eric Raymond, r… Open Source Advocacy with Revererend Ted Open Source Advocacy with Revererend Ted- Weblog about the world of Open Source by the guy responsible for building the Novell user community. Open Source Software Institute Open Source Software Institute- Non-profit organization created to promote the adoption of open source solutions within U.S. agencies and academic entities. Atviras Kodas Lietuvai Atviras Kodas Lietuvai- Non-profit public organization that works to promote the usage of Free and Open Source software in Lithuania. Open Source Community Node Open Source Community Node- Community portal providing a discussion forum, articles and blogs. Microsoft Boycott - The Alternative Microsoft Boycott - The Alternative- Index of replacements for Microsoft software, services and hardware. Includes reviews and outside links. The Cathedral and the Bazaar The Cathedral and the Bazaar- Eric S. Raymond's seminal paper analysing why open source works so well; followup papers "Homesteading the Noosphere", "The Magic Cauldron" and "The … Debian's social contract Debian's social contract- Contains the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which are regarded as compliance rules for free software by many others besides Debian package maintainers. WebReference Update: Scholars Discuss Open Code Benefits WebReference Update: Scholars Discuss Open Code Benefits- Fans of free software and music found some allies this weekend who said if lawmakers don't understand technology they sho… Development, Ethical Trading, and Free Software Development, Ethical Trading, and Free Software- Makes political and ethical case for adopting free software by Community Aid Abroad and other members of Oxfam International. Appl… Free Software Advocacy Free Software Advocacy- Focuses on connections between free software and community development and on free software in Australia. Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers! Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!- In-depth review and analysis of the many quantitative reasons to use open source software, with statistics… The OpenScience Project The OpenScience Project- The Open Science Project is an Organization devoted to providing open source scientific software. Berkman Center for Internet and Society Berkman Center for Internet and Society- A research program at Harvard Law School founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. User Friendly the Comic Strip User Friendly the Comic Strip- Amusing strip following the antics of Columbia Internet and its employees. Frequently touches on Open Source, Linux, hacker culture, and holy wars. Open Source Initiative Open Source Initiative- Dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source trademark for the good of the community. Includes a definition of 'Open Source', and a list of approved… Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Software in the Public Interest, Inc.- A non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. RFC 3758 - SCTP Partial Reliability Extension RFC 3758 - SCTP Partial Reliability Extension- Standard extension, to be used for applications where it is more efficient to send new data than to continue to continue to attempt … RFC 3286 - Introduction to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol RFC 3286 - Introduction to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol- Explanation of SCTP's features and possible applications. Ksetiwatch Ksetiwatch- A monitoring tool for the Seti@home distributed computing project. krunseti krunseti- A seti@home monitoring program for KDE. KLSeti KLSeti- look@seti is a program to observe multiple running instances of setiathome. BibTexMng BibTexMng- Windows program for manipulating BibTeX database files. News, screenshots and download. BibEdt BibEdt- Open source minimal BibTeX editor for Windows. News, screen shots and SourceForge project page. BibDB BibDB- A BibTeX database manager running on Windows (DOS and 16-bit) for creating, maintaining and updating literature reference libraries, in a format which is compatible with Bi… Pub2Bib Pub2Bib- Free Windows program that converts PubMed (Medline) database records into different file formats, e.g. BibTeX, HTML and CSV. An Effective and Inexpensive Translation Memory Tool An Effective and Inexpensive Translation Memory Tool- Article published in Translation Journal about TM in general and this macro in particular. Wordfast at Yahoogroups Wordfast at Yahoogroups- Unofficial mailing list for user based support of Wordfast. Generates between 600 and 1000 messages per month, with searchable archive.