Mahara is a fully featured open source electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online communities. An ePortfolio is a system in which students can record “evidence of lifelong learning” – such as essays,
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FET – scheduling the timetable of a school, high-school or university
FET is open source software for automatically generating the timetable of a school, high-school or university. It can also be used for other timetabling purposes. FET is able to automatically care about all groups (classes/courses/students), has a very large palette
Read moreBigBlueButton – web conferencing system designed for online learning
BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for online learning. BigBlueButton’s web conferencing platform enables educational institutions to deliver their courses online, with high quality slides, voice, and video collaboration at a fraction of the cost. BigBlueButton supports sharing
Read moreOpen Source Meets Education – Outstanding Linux Applications
Linux is blessed with a good range of open source education software. The purpose of this article is to identify top notch open source software targeted at instructors and educational institutions. Educational establishments are constantly examining ways to reduce their
Read moreRed Tree Reader **AWOL**
Red Tree Reader is a project to reproduce the now departed Google Reader. The service has been driven heavily by feedback from users. Most of the core features have been implemented, but there is more to come from the developers.
Read morePulse **AWOL**
Pulse is an award winning news reading application for web browsers, iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The application displays news from multiple RSS feeds in a single page using a tile based interface. Pulse has been praised by users for
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NewsBlur – personal news reader
NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world.
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The Old Reader – RSS reader
The Old Reader allows users to browse their daily dose of content with that very special bit shared by friends, with notes and comments.
Read moreSilverReader **AWOL**
SilverReader was a simple but powerful RSS news reader. It was a Google Reader alternative that follows most of the Google Reader layout and also has the same keyboard shortcuts. Return to Google Reader Replacements Home Page
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InoReader – RSS/Atom Reader
InoReader is a light and fast RSS/Atom Reader inspired by the now defunct Google Reader.
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Feedspot – social feed reader
Feedspot is a social feed reader. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources based on topic or websites.
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Wakeup – customizable and extensible talking alarm clock
Wakeup is an open source fully customizable and extensible talking alarm clock.
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Nitro Tasks – task management software
Nitro is software which makes tasks management extremely easy and slick.The application is fast, easy to use.
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Easystroke – gesture-recognition software
Easystroke is a free and open source gesture-recognition application which works with all of your applications.
Read moreIEP – Python IDE
Interactive Editor for Python (IEP) is a cross-platform Python IDE focused on interactivity and introspection, which makes it very suitable for scientific computing. Its practical design is aimed at simplicity and efficiency. IEP consists of two main components, the editor
Read moreScalr – cloud management suite
Scalr is an open source simple, powerful cloud management suite for applications deployed in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and other clouds. It provides both an automation framework and a web interface for managing infrastructure on the cloud, like EC2. Scalr
Read moreDeltacloud – **AWOL**
Apache Deltacloud has been retired. Deltacloud is an application programming interface (API) developed by Red Hat and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) that provides aggregated access to multiple cloud computing platforms in a single web service. It abstracts differences between
Read moreCloudForms – management tool for virtual and private cloud infrastructure
Red Hat CloudForms is an open hybrid Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud-management product. It delivers the flexibility and agility that businesses want with the control and governance that IT needs. It is a feature-rich product providing discovery, policy-management, web-service integration, and automation
Read moreNimbus – cloud computing for science
Nimbus is an open-source toolkit that, once installed on a cluster, provides an infrastructure as a service cloud to its client via WSRF-based or Amazon EC2 WSDL web service APIs. The mission of the software is to evolve the infrastructure
Read moreEucalyptus – build AWS-compatible private and hybrid cloud computing environments
Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems (Eucalyptus) is open source computer software for building Amazon Web Services (AWS)-compatible private and hybrid cloud computing environments. It pools together existing virtualized infrastructure to create cloud resources for
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