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Open Source Links for December 31, 2011

  • Open Source Help Desk List
    A complete list of open source help desk software packages
  • OneOrZero AIMS
    OneOrZero AIMS is a powerful enterprise ready suite that includes a help desk, knowledge base, time manager and reporting system supported by a highly configurable and extensible Action & Information Management System that allows you to ‘build your own system’ on the fly.
  • Mantis Bug Tracker
    Mantis is a very easy to use bug tracker system. With a very neat interface, Mantis is very usable, and can be installed in a minute on a classical (L)AMP stack. Mantis can be used as a bug tracker as well as an helpdesk solution.

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Open Source Links for December 3, 2011

  • Mantis Bug Tracker
    Mantis is a very easy to use bug tracker system. With a very neat interface, Mantis is very usable, and can be installed in a minute on a classical (L)AMP stack. Mantis can be used as a bug tracker as well as an helpdesk solution.
  • OneOrZero AIMS
    OneOrZero AIMS is a powerful enterprise ready suite that includes a help desk, knowledge base, time manager and reporting system supported by a highly configurable and extensible Action & Information Management System that allows you to ‘build your own system’ on the fly.
  • Open Source Help Desk List
    A complete list of open source help desk software packages

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Open Source Links for October 12, 2011

  • DoceboLMS
    Open source E-learning platform, Scorm LMS and LCMS

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Zotero Open Source Articles Since 2011-08-05

Not much bookmarked this last month, but I’ve been a bit busy with recovery. Here’s what we have for September:

Chawner, Brenda. “F/OSS in the library world: an exploration.” ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 30, no. 4 (July 2005). http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1082983.1083262.
Farkas, Meredith. “Open Source, Open Mind.” American Libraries. Technology in Practice (September 27, 2011). http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns/practice/open-source-open-mind.
Rapp, David. “Open Source Reality Check: Implementation experience reveals pros and cons.” Library Journal (August 15, 2011). http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891350-264/open_source_reality_check.html.csp.
Schlumpf, Peter. “Open source library systems.” Library Computing: Internet & Software Applications for Information Professionals 18, no. 4 (1999): 323.
Vaughan-Nichols, Steven. “Linus Torvalds’s Lessons on Software Development Mamagement.” Input Output, September 26, 2011. http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440.

Open Source Links for October 4, 2011

  • MenuMeters
    A set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for Mac OS X

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Open Source Links for September 26, 2011

  • Cofundos
    Cofundos helps to realize open-source software ideas, by providing a platform for their discussion & enrichment and by establishing a process for organizing the contributions and interests of different stakeholders in the idea

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Open Source Links for September 24, 2011

  • Cofundos
    Cofundos helps to realize open-source software ideas, by providing a platform for their discussion & enrichment and by establishing a process for organizing the contributions and interests of different stakeholders in the idea

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Open Source Links for September 22, 2011

  • Unity Books Lens in Launchpad
    This lens provides a unified search engine for books stored in ~/Documents, Calibre database, Google Books and several online libraries.

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Open Source Links for September 14, 2011

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Open Source Links for September 8, 2011

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Open Source Links for August 19, 2011

  • Alfresco
    Open Source Enterprise Content Management System (CMS)
  • Scuttle
    Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.

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Open Source Links for August 11, 2011

  • Collabtive
    Collabtive is a web-based project management software that is being published as Open Source software.
  • Codendi
    Codendi is an open-source collaborative development platform offered by Xerox. From only one interface, it gathers, all the needed tools for software development teams: management and versioning of code, bugs, requirements, documents, reporting, tests etc. It is mainly used for managing software project processes.
  • eHour
    eHour is an open source webbased time tracking tool for companies and organizations who need accurate information on how much time is spend on projects by their people.
  • Baralga
    Baralga keeps track of the time you spent working on different projects. You can record the time spent on a project or you can manually enter and edit activities. This way you can easily memorize when and how long you have been working on each single project.
  • Anuko Time Tracker
    Anuko Time Tracker is a simple, easy to use, open source, web-based time tracking system. Anuko Time Tracker allows you to track the time that employees, colleagues, or teammates spend working on any project or activity that you need to keep tabs on, and is suitable for teams and companies both large and small with any number of users.
  • Rachota Timetracker
    Rachota is a portable application for timetracking different projects. It runs everywhere. It displays time data in diagram form, creates customized reports and invoices or analyses measured data and suggests hints to improve user's time usage. The totally portable yet personal timetracker.
  • Kimai
    Kimai is a free open source timetracker. It tracks work time and prints out a summary of your activities on demand. Yearly, monthly, daily, by customer, by project, by action …

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Open Source Links for August 8, 2011

  • Tweet Nest
    A browsable, searchable and easily customizable archive and backup for your tweets
  • Nuxeo
    Nuxeo provides an Open Source Platform for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) enabling architects and developers to easily build, deploy, and run the best applications, period.
  • OpenCart
    Open Source Shopping Cart Solution
  • Pentaho BI
    Pentaho BI provides a full spectrum of data integration and business intelligence (BI) capabilities including data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL), interactive reporting, ad hoc analysis, rich visualizations, data mining, and predictive analysis.
  • ProcessMaker
    Open Source Workflow & Business Process Management (BPM) Software
  • SugarCRM
    Open source customer relationship manager
  • NavalPlan
    NavalPlan is a free software web application for project management.
  • SparkWeb IM Client
    SparkWeb is an Open Source, web-based IM client optimized for businesses and organizations. It features built-in support for group chat and strong security. It also offers a great end-user experience with features like group chat room bookmarks, and tabbed conversations.
  • Openfire Server
    Openfire is a real time collaboration (RTC) server licensed under the Open Source GPL. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.
  • Jitsi
    Jitsi is an audio/video Internet phone and instant messenger that supports some of the most popular VoIP and instant messaging protocols such as SIP, Jabber, AIM/ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Bonjour and a whole lot of other useful features. Jitsi is completely Open Source / Free Software, and is freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
  • The OpenNMS Project
    Enterprise grade network management application
  • Webmin
    Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.
  • phpLDAPadmin
    Web-based LDAP browser to manage your LDAP server
  • OpenLDAP
    OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
    The suite includes:
  • Zarafa
    Zarafa offers Open Source email server software & mobility

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Zotero Open Source Articles Since 2011-06-07

As always, I have been adding open source articles to my Zotero library since my last post in June. Here are the articles I found since then:

Chawner, Brenda. “Factors Influencing Participant Satisfaction with Free/Libre and Open Source Software Projects”. Doctor of Philosophy in Information Systems, Wellington, NZ: Victoria University of Wellington, 2011. http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1710.
Dorman, David. “The case for open source software in the library market.” Ubiquity, January 2004. http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=985601.
Katz, Demian, Ralph LeVan, and Ya’aqov Ziso. “Using Authority Data in VuFind.” Code4Lib Journal, no. 14 (July 25, 2011). http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5354.
Molyneux, Robert E. “An Open Source ILS Glossary: Version 2.” Public Library Quarterly 30, no. 2 (June 2011): 165-176.
Puckett, Jason. Zotero : a guide for librarians, researchers, and educators. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2011.
Rochkind, J. “Looking back at Blacklight selection and implementation.” Bibliographic Wilderness, July 25, 2011. http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/looking-back-at-blacklight-selection-and-implementation/.
Suranofsky, Michelle. “Joining an Open Source Community: Creating a Symphony Connector for the XC NCIP Toolkit.” Code4Lib Journal, no. 14 (July 25, 2011). http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5608.

Open Source Links for August 3, 2011

  • Digital Library Initiatives Projects: NCSU Libraries
    Includes links to open source projects written by the NCSU Libraries and other tools for libraries.
  • Archivists’ Toolkit
    The Archivists’ Toolkit™, or the AT, is the first open source archival data management system to provide broad, integrated support for the management of archives. It is intended for a wide range of archival repositories.
  • ATReference
    An extension of the source core code of the Archivists’ Toolkit™ that supports the management of reference related activities in an archival setting, including registering patrons, recording visits and topics of research, and tracking researcher statistics and research products.
  • Suma: A Mobile Space Assessment Toolkit
    Suma comprises a set of tools, including a mobile tablet-based (i.e. Apple iPad) data collection application, that will allow library staff to collect, aggregate, and interactively analyze real-time data about the usage of physical space and services. This tool will support the collection of more fine-grained data about physical space usage patterns by supporting the annotation of users with "activities."
  • MDID Community
    The Madison Digital Image Database is a freely distributed, open source web application developed at James Madison University. MDID is a digital media management system with sophisticated tools for discovering, aggregating, and presenting digital media in a wide variety of learning spaces.

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