inetWord

“You can edit documents and Web pages. It has all the capabilities you need and can replace expensive and troublesome desktop editors.”

This seems interesting, have a look. It doesn’t look that pretty, but it seems to work ok.

http://www.inetword.com/

Opensource software sources

Some sites to find opensource software:

OSX only
http://www.opensourcemac.org/
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/
http://www.nothickmanuals.info/doku.php/opensourcemac

Windows only
http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
http://www.myopensource.org/

Cross platform
http://freshmeat.net/
http://sourceforge.net/
http://www.webi.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages

OpenOffice.org

 

About
To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. OpenOffice.org is a free Office suite like Microsoft Office which has features to create documents such as: Text documents, spreadsheets, slide shows etc… Allowing users to be able to create those type of documents without having to pay for software.

Source Code
A page on the OpenOffice.org site allows the user to download the source code, as well as an add-on to OpenOffice.org it’s self for users to create add-ons. Click here for the page to get the files for the most stable version of OpenOffice.org.

Price
OpenOffice.org is a free download.

License
OpenOffice.org uses the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License).

The product has the affect of rapid development to help create more of a community to help compete with the more dominate product i.e. Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org is attempting to be an alternative to the expensive applications.

OSCar – The first open source car

The idea of the worlds first open source car was thought up by Markus Merz, he wanted a way to apply the Internet to the automobile industry in a really new and creative way. His idea was to get car designers to collaborate via the net, sharing and creating ideas to create an all new car. Connecting the creative input of millions of car enthusiasts to one global development web could lead to a superior product, the car for the new millennium, the vehicle the established car manufacturers had never managed to develop.

Markus launched the OSCar project by writing a manifesto that attempted to structure and define the basic goals and principles of the project. This vision described the OSCar project as a development process without boundaries and limitations. In a recent speech to shareholders, a high-level manager at DaimlerChrysler made a standing offer to support the OSCar project. Without mentioning OSCar or its founder directly, this DaimlerChrysler executive pointed out that his company would “support an open source car project in any way possible” (full article at http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~sjournal/articles_02/os_car_project.pdf)

Ideas could be posted in forums and discussed in chat rooms on a site set up specifically for OSCar. Contribution to this project is free, allowing everyone to access the site and share their ideas. 

 

The Game

Although adopted and modified by many as a business proposition. The game as it is known, has been developed through advances in web capabilities to form forums and share and develop information and ‘tactics’ to attract members of the oppoursit sex. Lending itself to an open source society of shared information between community members.

 

www.mysterymethod.com

Open Source DJ

http://ccmixter.org/

ccMixter community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

Remixers If you’re into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, for others to enjoy and re-sample. All legal.

Podcasters, directors and music lovers If you’re into music, browse this site to hear some of the great remixes people have built from sampling music on this site, all licensed for use under Creative Commons license.

Elephant’s Dream

Elephant’s Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender.

The film’s content was released under the Creative Commons Attribution license [3], so that viewers may learn from it and use it however they please (provided attribution is given).

The film was released for download directly and via BitTorrent on the Official Orange Project website on May 18, 2006, along with all production files.

Open source with Myspace

Myspace is open source. You can take someone’s code that they have made for changing the aesthetics of your page. You can change iot how you want, add a different background image, change the colour of the texts etc.

Its free to use, you simply use html to create the page design you want and add it to the “about me” section of your profile.

There doesnt seem to be any form of copy left license, as all you use to change the page is standard html.. The only form of recognising where you got the orginal code from would be an image in the corner linking to the webpage that you got it from eg “pimp-my-profile.com”

Goldeneye Source

GoldenEye: Source is a total conversion mod in development using the Source engine developed by Valve Corperation for the computer game, Half-Life 2. GoldenEye: Source is based on the award winning Nintendo 64 video game, GoldenEye 007,  featuring Ian Fleming’s secret agent, James Bond. The original game was developed by Rare and published by Nintendo in 1997. An alpha release was distributed on December 25, 2005 receiving more than 65,000 downloads in 2 weeks. A Beta release of GoldenEye: Source was scheduled for December 25, 2006, but was released on December 26, 2006.

The GoldenEye HL2 Modification is a completely non-profit project.

Open source

Todays year 3 theory class will talk about open source among other things:

Interview with Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer, Greg Papadopoulos – Part 1

Interview with Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer, Greg Papadopoulos – Part 2

The open source movement