Why Open Source? Why Open Source Software?

Open Source Promoters

• Open Source Initiative (OSI) encourages and promotes Open source definition. We can find a list of Open Source companies and products here.
• FOSSCON 2003. Its a free and open source software conference.
• Open Source Developer's Conference 2006.
• Open Source Software Institute
• BerliOS goal is to provide support for different interest groups in the area of Open Source Software (OSS).
• Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) plays a major role in open source community.
• Free Standard Group
• Open Source Application Foundation
• Open Source CMS Award

Open Source Resources

• Resource list from Wikipedia
  • Open Source Article is a good attempt to provide information on Open Source.
  • Open Source Software Article is dedicated to software community. We can find a list of organizations and products here.
  • List of Open Source Software Packages Article gives an exhaustive list of software products.
• 400+ Open Source Free Softwares list
• Extension to the list of Software packages
  • Tripware
  • Osflash
  • WebKit
  • Plone
  • Xara Open Source Graphics Software
  • Vorbis Audio encoding and streaming
  • OSCOM - The international association for Open Source Content Management
  • Open Source systems for libraries (OSS4lib)
  • The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) is a community of individuals and organizations collaborating on the development of the leading non-proprietary, open source electronic portfolio software available
  • Open web design
  • Open Workbench is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality
  • Open Source Windows
  • Open source Software Testing Tools, news and discussion
  • Integrated Library System
  • The CMU Sphinx Group Open Source Speech Recognition Engines
  • Open Source Streaming Server
  • Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing
  • Drupal Open Source Content Management Platform
  • Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players
  • FreeDesktop Direct Rendering Open Source Project
  • MIMOS The Open Source business model
  • Socialtext Open Source Wiki
  • Open Source Software for windows
  • PalmOS Open Source Portal
  • Genesis3D is an Open Source real-time 3D rendering environment
• GIS Open Sourcean attempt to build a complete index of Open Source / Free GIS related software projects.
• Free and Open Source Software wiki
• Online Newspaper for Linux and Open Source
• The OpenCD project aims to introduce users of MS-Windows to the benefits of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software.
• An open Source resource directory
• Google open source directory
• Yahoo open source directory
• MIT FOSS Community
• UNESCO Open Source Portal
• OSU Open Source lab
• Major Organization and Institutions dedicated to Open Source
  • SourceForge has evolved as the biggest contributor to open source
  • Apache Software Foundation
  • JBoss
  • GNU
  • Eclipse Foundation
  • Debian
  • Mozilla Foundation
  • Python
  • PHP
  • Open-Xchange
  • Blender
  • Open Source Geospatial Foundation
  • Linux Community
• Proprietory Companies and Organizations participation in Open Source Movement
  • IBM Open Source Zone and Open Source Portal. IBM is well known for donating Eclipse to open source society.
  • Sun MicroSystems OpenOffice, OpenSolaris Project, glassfish project for J2EE 5 open source implementation and open source implementation of Java SE are its major contributions.
  • OracleOpen Source projects and directory
  • Apple Open Source projects
  • Google Open Source projects. Google is supposed to emerge as the biggest contributor to open source.
  • CodePlex Microsoft project site. It has contributed Windows Installer XML, Windows Template Library and flexwiki projects to open source community.
  • BBC Open Source projects
  • Creative Open source codes
  • NASA Open Source projects
  • Adobe Open Source projects
  • SGI Open Source projects
  • HP Open Source effort
  • Nokia Open Source project

Free Software Promoter The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is dedicated to promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs.

Free Software Resources

• Resource list from Wikipedia
  • Free Software Article provides information on free software movement