Interesting 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.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 Wikipedia3)

    Technology

    m:Geospatial reference
    m:spacetime_DTD
    m:ecoregion_DTD

    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

    • P2Pmap - insightful peer-to-peer mapping systems
    • 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://slipperycat.com - attempt to nail down ontology for game business - shows what a simple industry looks like from low level code up to production.

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