Resources

** http://k-12.pisd.edu/open/

Articles and background information:**
 * Open Up Your Software Options presentation (TIES 2008)
 * Open Technologies workshop handout (updated 12/2008)
 * Workshop files (.zip format)


 * CoSN's Open Technologies website


 * CoSN Primer on Open Technologies in K-12 Education
 * The Cape Town Open Education Declaration
 * Penguin Day (for non-profit organizations to explore the use of open technologies)


 * Open source conferences
 * O'Reilly sponsored conferences
 * The Center of Open Source & Government conferences


 * The Open Source Initiative
 * Sites providing best practices in actual use:
 * Seacoast Professional Development Center


 * Formatting for the Future (Government Technology)


 * Open Standards, Open Source and Open Innovation (Committee for Economic Development)


 * Open source quality and security (Coverity)


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Making Decisions About Open Source Software for K-12
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is Open Source by Dan Woods


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why Open Source Software? Look at the Numbers!
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open Source Paradigm Shift by Tim O'Reilly
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google supports open source initiatives


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open Source Support Models


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open Options - Open Source Considerations
 * CIO Insight survey<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> on open source adoption
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">K12OpenSource - a wiki devoted to Free (Libre) Open Source Software

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 * K12EdCom<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> - Educational Commons for OpenCourseWare
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The world's largest market turn to free software - China's bet on Linux
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open Source versus proprietary software - the debate is over
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open Source Academy in the U.K.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open source insurance policies (to protect against non-compliance license issues)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Microsoft "opens" its Office file formats
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open Source Software Lab @ Microsoft
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Licensing: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Open Source Definition
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Center for Social Justice Fair Use and Copyright resources
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creative Commons licensing (flexible copyright for our digital age)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is creativity being strangled by the law? (Lawrence Lessig talk)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An easy-to-understand conversation on Creative Commons
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">25+ sources for Creative Commons content
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cory Doctorow - author using Creative Commons licensing
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Pompous Octopus online comic using Creative Commons Licensing
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Web template offered under Creative Commons licensing
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7 Things You Should Know About Creative Commons (EDUCAUSE article)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creative Commons Find page (Google enabled)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yahoo's Creative Commons search engine
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The history of Creative Commons
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Remix Culture (Reticulum Rex)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">GNU General Public License
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First draft of version 3

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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Operating systems:**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Linux news - updated daily
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OpenLab - EduKar .::. educational software and content solution for Linux
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ubuntu Linux ("humanity to others")
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edubuntu - customized school environment
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who is using Ubuntu?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Xubuntu for the Asus Eee PC
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Novell Linux
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OpenSUSE - live DVD
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Linux curriculum for K-12 schools
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Novell and Microsoft announce partnership to support SUSE Linux
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Redhat Linux
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OpenBSD (Berkley Software Distribution UNIX)
 * FreeBSD<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (Berkley Software Distribution UNIX)

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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Applications:**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OpenDisc - open source software for Windows
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Macintosh OS X open source software library
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open source software directory - very comprehensive
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Top 100 of the best open source software applications
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">FOSSWIN - a collection of over 100 free and open source software applications
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SourceForge.net (open source repository)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SchoolForge.net - education specific
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open source applications (Windows) on DVD (Australia)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open source applications (Mac OS X)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open source web applications <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (BitNami) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">African Schoolnet Toolkit (open source)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sun releases Java as an open source project
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Portable applications - have the most popular open source applications available for use from a flash drive or CD **without** installing them (Windows only)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OS X Portable Applications (Macintosh)
 * **OpenOffice**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Documentation
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tutorials
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Samples and templates
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Label templates (Worldlabel.Com)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Comparison of OpenOffice Impress and Microsoft PowerPoint
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">French tax agency opts for OpenOffice
 * **Lotus Symphony** - IBM release based on OpenOffice
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Macintosh OS X users - unless you have X.11 windowing installed, you might want to try **NeoOffice** for the time being.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Moodle** - online course management system
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Article on Moodle in the December/January issue of Innovate
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The **GIMP**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tutorials
 * Tutorials for photographers<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * **Paint.net**
 * [|**Tuxpaint**]
 * Student Gallery
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**GCompris** (educational activities for young children)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**KompoZer** - web authoring system
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Nvu** - web authoring system (development ended in 2005)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tutorials
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Firefox** - web browser
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tutorials
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Toolbar tutorial
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For the serious researcher - Zotero research tool extension
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Semantic Web concept (Firefox extension)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Firefox Add-ons
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10 essential extensions (Information Week)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**CamStudio** - video recording of dekstop applications for training
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Flock** - the social web browser
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**eLGG** - open source social networking plaform
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IHMC **Cmap Tools**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Audacity** - audio editing and recording tool
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**VLC Media Player** - cross platform media player for most formats
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Prism** - video conversion software
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Miro** - open source Internet TV
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New Breed Software
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open Use Web 2.0 applications:  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Web 2.0.... the Machine is Us/ing Us (YouTube video)  **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">GoToWeb2.0 - the complete Web 2.0 directory
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">50 ways to tell a story using Web 2.0 tools (CogDogRoo)
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Zoho Virtual Office (word processing, spreadsheets, presentation and more)  **
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Google versus Zoho (a comparison with proprietary office suites)  **
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> gOffice (word processing, desktop publishing, spreadsheets and presentation)  **
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Google for Educators  **
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Docs & Spreadsheets  **
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Thinkfree online office  **
 * **AJAX <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Office  <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (Asynchronous Javascript and XML)   **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Online word processing - Writely
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Online spreadsheet - Num Sum
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Screencast-o-matic - video recording of desktop applications for training
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wetpaint - wikis made simple
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Programmable Web
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AP News and Google Maps
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Lt Trips
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WikiMapia
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Newzingo
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mibazaar
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">News Map
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Weather Bonk (The Weather Channel and Google Maps)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flickr Sodoku
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ask Vox (Know It All)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Amazon Prime search engine
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Web 2.0 - Ingredients for a Site Makeover (Information Week article)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Web 3.0 - the "common sense" web (New York Times article)

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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Content:**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The discussion around open source from Technology Review (June 2005)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The People Own Ideas (Lawrence Lessig)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Creators Own Ideas (Richard Epstein)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teen Content Creators and Consumers (Pew Internet & American Life report)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">State of the Blogosphere (Technorati)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Should Know (Information Week)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Texting" teenagers are proving more literate (UK study)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Convergence of Open Source and Open Content (First Monday article)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Flexbooks** - supported by the CK-12 Foundation as a collaborative textbook alternative
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wide Open - open source methods and their future potential
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Curriki - open source curriculum
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OER Commons - Open Education Resources
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wikimedia Foundation - source of eight great open content resources
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wikipedia tightens rules for posting
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wikipedia to Print (CNN article)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Can You Trust Wikipedia?" (experts review Wikipedia enteries in their areas of expertise)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And Wikipedia responds!
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science journal finds Wikipedia pretty accurate
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wikipedia - a "work in progress"
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wikibooks takes on textbook publishers (C-NET article)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wikibooks offers free e-texts for education (eSchool News article)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Citizendium - The Citizens' Compendium
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Encyclopedia of Life - wiki-style environment produced by scientific experts around the world
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digital Univerise - an alternative to Wikipedia?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Meaning of Everything - the story of the Oxford English dictionary (notice the parallels with todays' Wikipedia before you dismiss these efforts as not being "academic" enough)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open Education Community Resources (supported by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Free Me DVD - raise awareness of free culture
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Open Video Project - a shared digital video collection
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New York Public Library's Digital Gallery
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Gutenberg - eBooks
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Triplanetary - just released as a great online HTML book
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MIT OpenCourseWare
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internet Archive - Universal access to human knowledge
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open content music example (Tryad :: Public Domain)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Opsound - open source music
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">RSSRecords - creative commons licensed audio
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pandora - open music radio
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last.fm - open music radio
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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
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 * OLPC XO and Asus Eee PC comparison
 * Asus Eee PC
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Xubuntu for the Asus Eee PC
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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">M&A Companion PC (Intel)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">myPad from M&A Technology
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">iPod Linux Project
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nokia N800 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">,  <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and Nokia N810  <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internet Tablets
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Washington Post review (makes the case that it is not a laptop replacement - which it was never designed to be)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TuxPhone - an open source hardware/software project cell phone
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">iLiad - a portable reading device using Linux and electronic paper display from iRex
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IBM Linux watch
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Linux devices
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