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==Not-for-profit Projects==
#REDIRECT [[Consumerium lists of lists#Interesting projects]]
 
If you are not sure if a new link belongs here, please check '''[[Links|Other Links]]''' for other alternatives.
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==Possible sources/gateways of [[Content]]==
 
*[[Wikipedia]] - The free encyclopedia, all content is under [[GFDL]].
 
*[[w:Wiktionary|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 [http://www.coopamerica.org 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 [[m:Wikipedia3|Wikipedia3]])
 
 
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==Technology==
* [[m:|http://meta.wikipedia.org]] - A Wiki where the Wikipedia Software and Syntax development is coordinated.
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'''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'''
 
* [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ Mapserver] - Free GIS system
 
* [http://p2pmap.org P2Pmap] - insightful peer-to-peer mapping systems
 
* [[JXTA]] - Java P2P service platform: secure bandwidth, processing power, storage and backup sharing
 
* [http://bluez.sourceforge.net/ Bluez] - The official [[w:Linux|Linux]] [[w:Bluetooth|Bluetooth]] protocol stack implementation
 
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/barcode.html 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 [[w:voting system|voting system options]] described in wikipedia (very comprehensive, with examples, tradeoffs of different systems).
 
* [[Sourceforge]]
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==Misc.==
* http://badcorp.org/ - they have very interesting search engine for figuring out who owns who!
 
* http://www.theyrule.net/ - Topic map style visual presentations of interrelations of [[Companies]] [[Executives]] and stuff in the US mostly. Static mapping so they have an advisory about propably being out-of-date.
 
* http://globalgreens.org - mailing lists automatically set up for any Green Party - or other groups obeying [http://globalgreens.info 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
 
* http://slipperycat.com - attempt to nail down ontology for game business - shows what a simple industry looks like from low level code up to production. - a '''stub''' at the moment
 
* http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/opensource/greenscan/ - [[GreenScan]], an [[Adbusters]] project to create a hand-held barcode scanner with a simple output system. Scan a product: if you get a green light, it is ok to buy. Red is bad. What they don't yet realize is that building a specific access device without a database and information infrastructure.
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===See also:===
* [[Interesting organisations]] - Institutions and organisations that provide [[reference]] or possibly [[content]]
* [[Interesting companies]] - Commercial links
* [[Strange projects]] for amusing, off topic sites
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