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Revision as of 22:48, 15 June 2003
Not-for-profit Projects
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Possible sources of Content
- Wiktionary - A spin off from wikipedia. The free dictionary and thesaurus in every language if it gets done someday. GFDL also. Not much happening there now.
- http://www.responsibleshopper.org/ A project run by Co-op America that has very convergent goal with us and they actually have a DB online with 350 big companies investigated. Truely worth a visit.
- http://www.disinfopedia.org/ - a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. And yes, it's in the GFDL part of the world (Running Wikipedia Phase III)
Technology
- http://meta.wikipedia.org - A Wiki where the Wikipedia Software and Syntax development is coordinated.
Important: Above efforts, if completed, would greatly advance the development of Consumerium and create greater w:synergy and information interusability between Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Consumerium and other future Wiki/GFDL resources
- Mapserver - Free GIS system
- JXTA - Java P2P service platform: secure bandwidth, processing power, storage and backup sharing
- GNU Barcode program Generates postscript files of UPC, EAN, ISBN, CODE39 and other encoding standards
- http://www.free-project.org/ The GNU.Free e-democracy software development has been discontinued, but the software is still available. It's in Java and could be useful in governing campaigns. See also voting system options described in wikipedia (very comprehensive, with examples, tradeoffs of different systems).
Misc.
- http://globalgreens.org - mailing lists automatically set up for any Green Party - or other groups obeying Global Greens Charter
- http://crit.org - annotation software to 'mark up' any site on the web
- http://smartmobs.com - discussion of mobile technologies for politics
See also:
- Interesting organisations - Institutions and organisations that provide reference or possibly content
- Interesting companies - Commercial links
- Strange projects for amusing, off topic sites