Open Source Software

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Many schools are actively engaged in promoting and teaching using open source software. Here are some resources on this collected on our listserv.

Screen reader alternatives. Josh suggested...

For Windows there is: http://www.nvda-project.org/
For Linux there is: http://live.gnome.org/Orca

Dreamweaver alternatives. There was lively discussion about these. Here is a summary.

KompoZer (formerly nvu) at http://www.kompozer.net/
Amaya at http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html

There was an article on Amaya that was mentioned. http://maketecheasier.com/html-editor-created-by-w3c/2009/11/06

Mike Etheridge compiled a list. There was some discussion on NZACDITT maintaining a list, but this seems like a duplication as there are great websites out there that do this already.

Open source Program Commercial eqiv Type of app Location
Kompozer Dreamweaver/frontpage wysiwyg web design kompozer.net
Gimp photoshop bitmap image manipulation gimp.org
Komodo edit   programmers editor www.activestate.com/komodo_edit
Notepad++   programmers editor notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
inkscape illustrator vector graphics inkscape.org
firefox internet explorer web browser mozilla.com
audacity logic pro audio editor audacity.sourceforge.net/
Open office Microsoft office "Office suite, s/s wp, dB,etc" openoffice.org
ubuntu Windows Operating system ubuntu.com
blender maya 3d image creation blender.org
Scribus indesign / publisher DTP scribus.net

also check out: http://www.digitaldarknet.net/thelist/

From Josh.

"Thanks to those of you who were kind enough to sit in on my presentation about open source software and it's use the classroom at the NZACDITT conference on the 6th. Higher levels of thanks for asking clever questions and not throwing things.

As promised the presentation and related PDF are now available at:
http://egressive.com/tutorial/open-source-software-in-the-classroom

The presentation uses the snazzy web based S5 approach (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/) which may of interest to those getting a little tired of desktop presentation tools. The PDF was made with Inkscape, Gimp and Scribus :-)"

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