Open Source Background Bookmarks

This page contains links to useful background information on Open Source.

Please contribute!

I suggest however that no links to Open Source Projects are put here; I intend to start another page with useful Open Source Software. Otherwise this page would become a bit overloaded.

Portals

• http://www.oreilly.de/opensource
• http://opensource.mit.edu
• http://wizards-of-os.org

Overview

• 10 myths – O’Reilly’s Article on Open Sourcehttp://www.oreilly.de/opensource/os_artikel/myths_1199.html
• How to evaluate Open Source S/Whttp://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_eval.html
• Steffen Evers’ Diploma Thesis (2000)http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tron/opensource
• Volker Grassmuck: Free Software (a free book about Open Source, in German)http://freie-software.bpb.de

Philosophy

• Stallman about O.S. philosophy: “Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism”http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html
• GNU Manifesthttp://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
• Eric Raymond – Cathedral and Bazaar: How do large communities of O.S. developers produce software?

  http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar

• Homesteading the Noosphere: Anthropological Model for Open Source movement

  http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/homesteading

• Linux – gut aussehende Tech. des Neoliberalismus (in German)http://www.xcult.org/texte/dany/linux.html

License

• GPLhttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
• Open Source Initiativehttp://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php

Business and Macro-economics

• Barlow: Economy of ideas http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/EconomyOfIdeas.html
• Free S/W foundation patron programhttps://www.fsf.org/donate/patron
• Open Source Business modelhttp://www.stromian.com/bizmod.html
• OECD: Knowledge, Work Organisation & Economic Growth says that IT brings productivity growth only with work reorganisation

  http://www.olis.oecd.org/OLIS/2001DOC.NSF/LINKTO/DEELSA-ELSA-WD(2001)3

• McKinsey: IT Productivityhttp://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/reports/pdfs/new_it/ITProd.pdf
• Redhat buys Cygnushttp://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5132
• Novell buys SuSEhttp://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39117592,00.htm

Politics

• Open Source Lobby (European Union)http://www.openforumeurope.org
• List of European OSS reportshttp://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/chapter/470
• UK Office of Govt. Commerce: Docs on Open Sourcehttp://www.ogc.gov.uk/index.asp?docid=2190#finalreport
• UK govtalk: Docs on Open Sourcehttp://www.govtalk.gov.uk/policydocs/policydocs_list.asp?topic=61&subjecttitle=Open+Source+Software
• Linux for the city council of Munichhttp://www.muenchen.de/linux

  http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/3223

• OSS in ChinaOverview

  http://www.kefk.net/Linux/World/Asien/CN/index.asp

  Competition for the Chinese market

  http://www.zdnet.de/itmanager/strategie/0,39023331,39117754,00.htm

  Novell / Turbolinux in China

  http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3393861

Open Source and Education

• Diploma Thesis (Christian):ICT Development and Education with Open Source in Zambia

  http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~misterp/thesis.html

• Report: Use of Skolelinux in 4 Norwegian schoolshttp://developer.skolelinux.no/rapporter/statskonsult_2003_24_eng.pdf
• Interwievs with Skolelinuxhttp://lwn.net/Articles/46850

  http://edu.kde.org/interviews/skolelinux.php

• UK Specialist Schools to promote use of ICThttp://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/specialistschools
• Case Study: Linux at Orwell High School (UK)http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/linux_case_study_orwell_high_school.html
• Peter Bingel: Linux in Schools (in German)http://www.peter-bingel.de

  Speech at Wizard of OS conference (in German)

  http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=486

• Linux in Education: 2 years later (report)http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/533/

  http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/152/

• Casestudies of Linux in Schoolshttp://casestudy.seul.org

Open Source in NGOs

• Guide to use O.S. in NGOshttp://commons.ca/articles/fulltext.shtml?x=335
• Softwarelist by Inwent.orghttp://213.239.197.70/inwent

Open Source in Developing Countries

• Inwent (in German)http://www.gc21.de/ibt/alumni/ibt/de/news/opensource2.html
• UNESCOhttp://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=12034&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
• Article (in German): Open Source & 3rd worldhttp://www.heise.de/ct/01/10/104/
• ICT services for civil sector in Indiahttp://www.mahiti.org
• Ghosh 2003: License fees and GDP – OSS for developing countries http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ghosh/index.html

Open Source in Africa

• Wired: Africa – the linux continent? http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38749,00.html
• iicd: Open Source in Africa http://www.ftpiicd.org/files/research/briefs/Brief7.pdf
• Mac News: Africa Becoming Vast Frontier for Free and Open Software http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/38025.html
• Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africahttp://www.fossfa.net
• Panafrican Linux-projecthttp://linux-maroc.org/africa
• List of African LUGshttp://www.tectonic.co.za/default.php?action=ug
• http://www.africalinuxchix.org
• School Net Namibia – provides training, hardware & internet, runs linuxhttp://www.schoolnet.na
• Geek Corps Mali Teamhttp://mali.geekcorps.org/article.php3?id_article=4
• ConferencesLinux Africa Joburg 2001

  http://lwn.net/2001/0308/a/sa-event.php3

  http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,43238,00.html

  http://www.undp.org.vn/mlist/ksdvn/032001/post18.htm

  Novell’s brain share Joburg May 2005

  http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=447

  http://www.brainshareafrica.co.za

  Linux World Conference and Expo

  http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.za

  FLOSS Pretoria April 2005

  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conference_reports/FLOSS%2C_South_Africa_2005

  World Conference on Computers in Education, Cape Town July 2005

  http://www.sbs.co.za/wcce2005

  Idlelo

  http://www.fossfa.net/idlelo2

  Africa Source

  http://www.tacticaltech.org/africasource

  Journal by Kwindla Kramer (allAfrica.com)

  http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4818

• South African Govt. OSS Strategyhttp://www.oss.gov.za/docs/OSS_Strategy_v3.pdf
  http://www.oss.gov.za/OSSPolicyFrameworkV1.pdf
• Initiative to translate software (South Africa)
  http://www.translate.org.za