Open Source Software and Tools

This list was presented at two Tech Briefings

Join us for a brief overview of various free and open source tools, and how they are being used to facilitate teaching, learning, and research in higher education.

Tools discussed will range from Desktop Applications to Operating Systems. Learn about such open source tools as OpenOffice and GIMP. Learn about open source alternatives that deal with Video Conferencing, Web Publishing, etc.

March 18, 2011 Tech Briefing

- John Bickar, Stanford Libraries

- Irina Zaks, Law Communications

June 1st, 2012 Tech Briefing

Mark Branom, IT Services

Irina Zaks, Law Communications We intend to keep the list below updated with useful Open Source tools. Desktop Applications Operating System Linux in many flavors:

• Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com
• Mint: http://www.linuxmint.com
• Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org
• Debian: http://www.debian.org

Office Suite (word processor, slideshow, spreadsheet, database, drawing)

• OpenOffice: http://openoffice.org
• LibreOffice: http://www.libreoffice.org

PDFs OpenOffice can create PDFs of any type of file it can open or create Image Editing

• GIMP: http://www.gimp.org
• OpenOffice Draw

Instant Messaging

• Adium: http://adium.im
• Pidgin: http://pidgin.im

Video/Audio/Multimedia

• VideoLan Client: http://www.videolan.org
• VideoLan Movie Creator: http://www.videolan.org/vlmc/
• Download VLMC: http://trac.videolan.org/vlmc/
• Audacity (Audio): http://audacity.sourceforge.net

Video Conferencing

• Big Blue Button: http://bigbluebutton.org

Reference Discovery, Management, and Citation

• Zotero: http://www.zotero.org
• LibX: http://libx.org

Web Publishing and Collaboration Content Management Systems

• Drupal: http://www.drupal.org
• Wordpress: http://www.wordpress.org
• Joomla!: http://www.joomla.org
• Plone: http://plone.org
• Pluck: http://pluck-cms.org
• MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/

Learning Management Systems

• Sakai: http://sakaiproject.org
• Moodle: http://moodle.org

Document Management

• Alfresco: http://www.alfresco.com
• Feng Office: http://www.fengoffice.com

Publishing

• Open Journal Systems: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs

Surveys

• Lime Survey: http://www.limesurvey.org

Research

• Statistics and Data Analysis: http://www.r-project.org

Virtualization

• VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org