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Roland Gesthuizen

Linux News: Community: LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice, Part Deux - 0 views

  • "If you are like me, you prefer LibreOffice over (Apache) OpenOffice because (1) It has a better open source license. (2) It has more community support. (3) It is more rapidly developing and releasing updates," the post innocently begins.
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    Indeed, with 325 active committers over the last 12 months, LibreOffice is now the third-largest free software project listed on Ohloh focused on the development of a desktop application, Behrens said, following only Firefox and Chrome.
Roland Gesthuizen

Zenoss Community - Open Source Network Monitoring and Systems Management - 0 views

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    "Zenoss Core is free and open source software for monitoring applications, networks, servers and much more."
Roland Gesthuizen

Run Windows Apps on Your Mac Free With Wine Bottler | Mac.AppStorm - 0 views

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    WineBottler, a free and easy way to wrap a Windows application into something that will run natively in OS X. Too good to be true you say? Read on!
Roland Gesthuizen

WineBottler - Run Windows Programs directly on OS X - 0 views

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    Run Windows Apps on OSX
Roland Gesthuizen

Software Freedom Day - Melbourne - 2 views

  • Software Freedom Day is an event held all over the world to celebrate and raise awareness of free software and open source software. “Our vision is to empower all people to freely connect, create and share in a digital world that is participatory, transparent, and sustainable.” — Software Freedom Day vision statement
  • Software Freedom Day is an event held all over the world to celebrate and raise awareness of free software and open source software. “Our vision is to empower all people to freely connect, create and share in a digital world that is participatory, transparent, and sustainable.” — Software Freedom Day vision statement The day will feature a wide selection of inspiring presentations and interactive workshops. We welcome participants of all ages or experience levels. Many software-related community groups will also be exhibiting their projects. This is a great way to meet others and learn a little more about these important issues.
  • The day will feature a wide selection of inspiring presentations and interactive workshops. We welcome participants of all ages or experience levels. Many software-related community groups will also be exhibiting their projects. This is a great way to meet others and learn a little more about these important issues.
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    Software Freedom Day is an event held all over the world to celebrate and raise awareness of free software and open source software. "Our vision is to empower all people to freely connect, create and share in a digital world that is participatory, transparent, and sustainable." - Software Freedom Day vision statement
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    Great Melbourne 2010 event worth noting in your diary and passing on.
Roland Gesthuizen

OSV Education FOSS Catalog | Creative Contingencies Pty. Ltd. - 0 views

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    "Free Software for Schools is a catalogue of open source computer programs for teaching and learning. The catalog is organised by the following categories, and contains an index that lists the name of each program listed."
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    Good catalgue of educational software, much of it free to download and share.
Roland Gesthuizen

Internationalization: Build Multilingual Sites | drupal.org - 0 views

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    This is a complete manual and step-by-step guide to building multilingual websites with Drupal and the internationalization package. It is a collection of modules that adds, besides the basic interface translation provided by the locale module, several features that allow for the creation of comprehensive multilingual sites with content and categories in multiple languages.
Roland Gesthuizen

Video: Face-Off-Moodle v. Blackboard - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    "Moodle, the open-source software for managing courses, is gaining ground on Blackboard, the best-selling commercial system. Leaders from both software projects discuss coming features, including better interfaces for smartphones and integration with other education software."
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    Good video comparing these two leading products for managing online courses.
Roland Gesthuizen

en:welcome [Sozi] - 2 views

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    "Sozi is a small program that can play animated presentations. Unlike in most presentation applications, a Sozi document is not organized as a slideshow, but rather as a poster where the content of your presentation can be freely laid out. Playing such a presentation consists in a series of translations, zooms and rotations that allow to focus on the elements you want to show. "
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    Powerful addon that can be plugged into Inkscape, good for creating interesting looking presentations.
Roland Gesthuizen

the Face of Tomorrow: the Human Face of Globalization, photographs by Mike Mike - 0 views

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    The Face of Tomorrow is a concept for a series of photographs that addresses the effects of globalization on identity. .. The Face of Tomorrow attempts to find this face by taking photographs of the current inhabitants and compositing their faces to create a typical face. What we get is a new person - a mix of all the people in that city. A face that doesn't exist right now, but a face, it seems, of someone quite real.
Roland Gesthuizen

Mozilla | Firefox web browser & Thunderbird email client - 0 views

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    The Firefox browser is created by Mozilla, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web.
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    Good, fast browser that works great with addons.
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