Open Source Background Bookmarks
This page contains links to useful background information on Open Source.
Please contribute!
I suggest however that no links to Open Source Projects are put here; I intend to start another page with useful Open Source Software. Otherwise this page would become a bit overloaded.
Portals
Overview
- 10 myths - O’Reilly’s Article on Open Sourcehttp://www.oreilly.de/opensource/os_artikel/myths_1199.html
- How to evaluate Open Source S/Whttp://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_eval.html
- Steffen Evers’ Diploma Thesis (2000)http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tron/opensource
- Volker Grassmuck: Free Software (a free book about Open Source, in German)http://freie-software.bpb.de
Philosophy
- Stallman about O.S. philosophy: “Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism”http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html
- GNU Manifesthttp://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
- Eric Raymond - Cathedral and Bazaar: How do large communities of O.S. developers produce software?
- Homesteading the Noosphere: Anthropological Model for Open Source movement
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/homesteading
- Linux - gut aussehende Tech. des Neoliberalismus (in German)http://www.xcult.org/texte/dany/linux.html
License
- GPLhttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
- Open Source Initiativehttp://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
Business and Macro-economics
- Barlow: Economy of ideas http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/EconomyOfIdeas.html
- Free S/W foundation patron programhttps://www.fsf.org/donate/patron
- Open Source Business modelhttp://www.stromian.com/bizmod.html
- OECD: Knowledge, Work Organisation & Economic Growth says that IT brings productivity growth only with work reorganisation
http://www.olis.oecd.org/OLIS/2001DOC.NSF/LINKTO/DEELSA-ELSA-WD(2001)3
- McKinsey: IT Productivityhttp://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/reports/pdfs/new_it/ITProd.pdf
- Redhat buys Cygnushttp://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5132
- Novell buys SuSEhttp://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39117592,00.htm
Politics
- Open Source Lobby (European Union)http://www.openforumeurope.org
- List of European OSS reportshttp://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/chapter/470
- UK Office of Govt. Commerce: Docs on Open Sourcehttp://www.ogc.gov.uk/index.asp?docid=2190#finalreport
- UK govtalk: Docs on Open Sourcehttp://www.govtalk.gov.uk/policydocs/policydocs_list.asp?topic=61&subjecttitle=Open+Source+Software
- Linux for the city council of Munichhttp://www.muenchen.de/linux
- OSS in ChinaOverview
http://www.kefk.net/Linux/World/Asien/CN/index.asp
Competition for the Chinese market
http://www.zdnet.de/itmanager/strategie/0,39023331,39117754,00.htm
Novell / Turbolinux in China
Open Source and Education
- Diploma Thesis (Christian):ICT Development and Education with Open Source in Zambia
- Report: Use of Skolelinux in 4 Norwegian schoolshttp://developer.skolelinux.no/rapporter/statskonsult_2003_24_eng.pdf
- Interwievs with Skolelinuxhttp://lwn.net/Articles/46850
- UK Specialist Schools to promote use of ICThttp://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/specialistschools
- Case Study: Linux at Orwell High School (UK)http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/linux_case_study_orwell_high_school.html
- Peter Bingel: Linux in Schools (in German)http://www.peter-bingel.de
Speech at Wizard of OS conference (in German)
- Linux in Education: 2 years later (report)http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/533/
- Casestudies of Linux in Schoolshttp://casestudy.seul.org
Open Source in NGOs
- Guide to use O.S. in NGOshttp://commons.ca/articles/fulltext.shtml?x=335
- Softwarelist by Inwent.orghttp://213.239.197.70/inwent
Open Source in Developing Countries
- Inwent (in German)http://www.gc21.de/ibt/alumni/ibt/de/news/opensource2.html
- UNESCOhttp://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=12034&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
- Article (in German): Open Source & 3rd worldhttp://www.heise.de/ct/01/10/104/
- ICT services for civil sector in Indiahttp://www.mahiti.org
- Ghosh 2003: License fees and GDP - OSS for developing countries http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ghosh/index.html
Open Source in Africa
- Wired: Africa - the linux continent? http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38749,00.html
- iicd: Open Source in Africa http://www.ftpiicd.org/files/research/briefs/Brief7.pdf
- Mac News: Africa Becoming Vast Frontier for Free and Open Software http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/38025.html
- Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africahttp://www.fossfa.net
- Panafrican Linux-projecthttp://linux-maroc.org/africa
- List of African LUGshttp://www.tectonic.co.za/default.php?action=ug
- http://www.africalinuxchix.org
- School Net Namibia - provides training, hardware & internet, runs linuxhttp://www.schoolnet.na
- Geek Corps Mali Teamhttp://mali.geekcorps.org/article.php3?id_article=4
- ConferencesLinux Africa Joburg 2001
http://lwn.net/2001/0308/a/sa-event.php3
http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,43238,00.html
http://www.undp.org.vn/mlist/ksdvn/032001/post18.htm
Novell’s brain share Joburg May 2005
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=447
http://www.brainshareafrica.co.za
Linux World Conference and Expo
http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.za
FLOSS Pretoria April 2005
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conference_reports/FLOSS%2C_South_Africa_2005
World Conference on Computers in Education, Cape Town July 2005
Idlelo
Africa Source
http://www.tacticaltech.org/africasource
Journal by Kwindla Kramer (allAfrica.com)
- South African Govt. OSS Strategyhttp://www.oss.gov.za/docs/OSS_Strategy_v3.pdf
http://www.oss.gov.za/OSSPolicyFrameworkV1.pdf - Initiative to translate software (South Africa)
http://www.translate.org.za
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