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Hardware/physical objects c,mm,n http://www.autoindetoekomst.nl/website/ An open source car design. “The
vehicle's technical drawings and blueprints are freely available
online, and everyone is invited to add their own ideas and
modifications, provided of course that these are shared again with the
community. Environmental sustainability was a key factor in the
development of the c,mm,n: the vehicle is therefore a zero-emission,
hydrogen-powered 2+2 family car. c,mm,n drivers can also easily share
information on traffic conditions, route planning and parking
availability.” Fab@Home http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page “Fab@Home
is a website dedicated to making and using fabbers - machines that can
make almost anything, right on your desktop. This website provides an
open source kit that lets you make your own simple fabber, and use it
to print three dimensional objects. You can download and print various
items, try out new materials, or upload and share your own projects.
Advanced users can modify and improve the fabber itself.”
Free Beer http://www.freebeer.org/blog/ “FREE
BEER is a beer which is free in the sense of freedom, not in the sense
of free beer. The project, originally conceived by Copenhagen-based
artist collective Superflex and students at the Copenhagen IT
University, applies modern free software / open source methods to a
traditional real-world product - namely the alcoholic beverage loved
and enjoyed globally, and commonly known as beer.”
Free Model Foundry http://www.freemodelfoundry.com/ “The
Free Model Foundry (FMF) advances the development and free distribution
of open source models of electronic components for system and IC design
around the world. Our Open Source Model Warehouse promotes widespread
sharing of functional and timing simulation models to help solve one of
the biggest problems in chip and system design: finding accurate,
usable component models. The
availabilty of these models allows system designers to design and
verify new digital electronic products more quickly and at lower cost
than the previous methodology of build, test, debug, and build again.
The result is faster time to market and more revenue for the systems
house. It also means earlier component sales for the IC manufacturers.”
HDPSR http://hpsdr.org/ “The
HPSDR is an open source (GNU type) hardware and software project
intended as a "next generation" Software Defined Radio (SDR) for use by
Radio Amateurs ("hams") and Short Wave Listeners (SWLs). It is being
designed and developed by a group of SDR enthusiasts with
representation from interested experimenters worldwide.”
MakeZine
http://www.makezine.com/ A magazine devoted to user-submitted object plan and designs in many activity areas.
Open Architecture Network
http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/ A wiki and sharing site for architectural design and knowledge. “The
Open Architecture Network is an online, open source community dedicated
to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable
design.”
OpenCores http://www.opencores.org/ “OpenCores
is a loose collection of people who are interested in developing
hardware, with a similar ethos to the free software movement. Currently
the emphasis is on digital modules called 'cores', since FPGAs have
reduced the incremental cost of a core to approximately zero.”
OpenPCD http://www.openpcd.org/ “OpenPCD
is a free hardware design for Proximity Coupling Devices (PCD) based on
13,56MHz communication. This device is able to screen informations from
Proximity Integrated Circuit Cards (PICC) conforming to
vendor-independent standards such as ISO 14443, ISO 15693 as well as
proprietary protocols such as Mifare Classic. Contactless cards like
these are for example used in the new electronic passports.”
OpenProsthetics http://openprosthetics.org/ “The
Open Prosthetics Project is producing useful innovations in the field
of prosthetics and giving the designs away for free. By substituting
public good for profits we believe that we can generate far more
societal benefit than if we commercialized and sold our ideas. This
project is an open source collaboration between users, designers and
funders with the goal of making our creations freely available for
anyone to use and build upon.”
Open source cola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola “OpenCola
is a brand of cola unique in that the instructions for making it are
freely available and modifiable. Anybody can make the drink, and anyone
can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too, license
their recipe under the GNU General Public License. Although
originally intended as a promotional tool to explain open source
software, the drink has taken on a life of its own. The Toronto-based
OpenCola company has become better known for the drink than the
software it was supposed to promote. “ OpenSparc T1 http://opensparc-t1.sunsource.net/ “OpenSPARC
T1 is the open source version of the UltraSPARC T1 processor. By making
the source for this design available for a larger community to review
and learn from, we expect that ideas around the multi-thread concepts
can be explored more freely and openly, and that truly beneficial
innovations can be achieved.”
OSCar http://www.theoscarproject.org/ “It
is the goal of the OScar Project to develop a car according to Open
Source principles. In our opinion, a car is not a vehicle full of
high-tech gadgets. Instead, we are looking for a simple and functional
concept to spread mobility. Apart from that, OScar is not just a car.
It is about new ways of mobility and the spreading of the Open Source
idea in the real (physical) world. On this website, you will find a
great community of developers and drivers who want to invent mobility
anew and together.”
RepRap http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome An
open source design for a self-replicating 3D object printer, capable of
creating complex objects. Both the design and the software are open
source.
RFIDguardian http://www.rfidguardian.org/ The
RFID Guardian Project is a collaborative project focused upon providing
security and privacy in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems.
The goals of our project are to: Investigate the security and privacy
threats faced by RFID systems, Design and implement real solutions
against these threats,Investigate the associated technological and
legal issues.
ThinkCycle http://www.thinkcycle.org/ “ThinkCycle
is an academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed
collaboration towards design challenges facing underserved communities
and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture of open
source design innovation, with ongoing collaboration among individuals,
communities and organizations around the world. ThinkCycle provides a
shared online space for designers, engineers, domain experts and
stakeholders to discuss, exchange and construct ideas towards
sustainable design solutions in critical problem domains.”
Financial
Open source credit union http://www.opensourcecu.com/ “Created
as an idea exchange, Open Source CU is an outlet and resource for
credit union leaders toward the goals of opening communications between
members and management, using technology that fits the movement’s
inherent cooperative nature, and converting marketing sales-speak into
legitimate conversation.”
Security/testing
ClamAV virus database http://www.clamav.net/ Collaboratively submitted software virus signatures
OSSTMM http://www.isecom.org/osstmm/ “The
Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM) is a
peer-reviewed methodology for performing security tests and metrics.”
SNORT signatures http://www.bleedingsnort.com/ http://www.snort.org/rules/ Snort (an open source intrusion detection system) rules developed in a collaborative way by security researachers.
Ontologies/classifications/meta-knowledge OpenCYC http://www.opencyc.org/ “OpenCyc
is the open source version of the Cyc technology, the world's largest
and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning
engine. OpenCyc contains the full set of (non-proprietary) Cyc terms as
well as millions of assertions about them. Cycorp offers this ontology
at no cost and encourages you to make use of it as you see fit. “
Graphics/Multimedia/Design/Games A swarm of angels http://aswarmofangels.com/ A collaboratively funded and scripted feature film.
BurdaStyle http://www.burdastyle.com/ Open Source sewing patterns
CineTma http://www.cinetma.org/ A collaboratively funded and scripted feature film.
FreeSound http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ “The
Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio
snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative
Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and
interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to browse
the sounds in new ways using keywords, a "sounds-like" type of browsing
and more; up and download sounds to and from the database, under the
same creative commons license and interact with fellow sound-artists.
We also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used
for scientific research. Many audio research institutions have trouble
finding correctly licensed audio to test their algorithms. Many have
voiced this problem, but so far there hasn't been a solution. “
Kits for Fun and Profit http://www.ladyada.net/library/kitmakers.html A wiki site hosting many user-submitted, open source electronic hardware designs
Libertine Font http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net “We work on a TrueType font family. It is designed to give you an alternative for fonts like T*mes New Roman. We're creating free software and publish our fonts under terms of the General Public License, GPL.” Nissan Retools http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2007/04/nissan_retools.html A set of open source objects for the Second Life virtual world environment.
OpenClipArt http://www.openclipart.org/ “This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use.”
Open Font Library http://openfontlibrary.org/ “The
Open Font Library is a sister project of the Open Clip Art Library. The
goal of this project is to collect public domain fonts so that they may
be used freely.”
OpenQuartz http://openquartz.sourceforge.net/ “We
are developing GPL-compatible content - including models, maps, sounds
and textures - which are required for a fully GPL game using the GPL
Quake source. We are also developing GPL tools to support Quake engine
content developers.”
Open Source Web Designs http://www.oswd.org/ “Open Source Web Design is a site to download free web design templates and share yours with others.”
OSMOSA https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/OSMOSA “OSMOSA
is an acronym for Open Source Museum of Open Source Art. By "open
source," we mean that the museum is entirely in the public domain.
Anyone can add, modify, or remove art from OSMOSA. Likewise, anyone can
add, modify, or remove elements of the OSMOSA building. Our goal is to
reimagine definitions of art, artist, curator, museum, culture, and
open source. This project is underway in a virtual reality called
Second Life.”
ThreadLess http://www.threadless.com/ A
companion site of a t-shirt sewing company, the site hosts user
submitted designs and encourage idea replication and improvement.
Politics/law/Journalism NewAssignment http://www.newassignment.net/blog/jay_rosen/welcome_to_newassignment_net “New
Assignment.Net is a non-profit site that tries to spark innovation in
journalism by showing that open collaboration over the Internet among
reporters, editors and large groups of users can produce high-quality
work that serves the public interest, holds up under scrutiny, and
builds trust. A second aim is to figure out how to fund this work
through a combination of online donations, micro-payments, traditional
fundraising, syndication rights, sponsorships, advertising and any
other method that does not compromise the site’s independence or
reputation.”
Politicopia http://www.politicopia.com/ “Politicopia
gives people a solid handle on the Utah Legislature. Users create
summaries of bills, pro and con arguments, comments, links, and more.”
Books/documentation/reference and training material Amapedia http://amapedia.amazon.com/ “Amapedia is a community for sharing information about the products you like the most.”
Citizendum http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page “The
Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of
everything," is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started
by a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding
"gentle expert oversight" and requiring contributors
GuitarWeek http://www.guitarweek.com/ “Guitarweek is
a organization dedicated to teaching guitar online, We have been
building a large archive of free online guitar lessons since the year
2000”
Iterating http://www.iterating.com/ A wiki-based user-generated directory of software reviews and commentary
Marvel Database Project http://www.marveldatabase.com/Main_Page A wiki with more than 22000 articles on Marvel Comics series.
Open directory project http://www.dmoz.org/ “The
Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited
directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast,
global community of volunteer editors.”
OpenEcoSource http://www.openecosource.org/ “Our
mission is to create a web base tool, which will help speed up the
distribution of available knowledge and connect efforts that aim to
create a sustainable environment.”
OpenShakespeare http://www.openshakespeare.org/ “The
Open Shakespeare project has two main objectives: Provides the complete
works of shakespeare, along with textual apparatus (introduction,
notes) and tools (concordance, search etc) all in an open form; and delivers this material as a knowledge package
that allows for easy deployment, redistribution and reuse. Specifically
we provide a full open set of shakespeare’s works along with ancillary
material, a variety of tools and a python API. In addition to the works
themselves (often in multiple versions) there is an introduction, a
chronology, explanatory notes, a concordance and search facilities. All
material is open source/open knowledge so that anyone can use,
redistribute and reuse these materials freely. “
OSAA http://osaa.wikispaces.com/ “This
is a group project to create a guide to working with a new category of
ICT industry analyst -- those using an "open source" business model.
While these analysts may cover any one or more segments within the
overall ICT industry -- including but not limited to hardware,
software, services, semiconductor, telecommunications, media,
industry-specific -- they share several common elements in their
business model and in their output (the content they produce). Some
defining characteristics would be: IP licensing: publish at least some of their intellectual property under a creative commons or other re-use license. Size: operate as small businesses with one to perhaps a half dozen employees and contractors total. Collaborates openly with other analyst firms, leading to joint and/or derivative deliverables Is
both a consumer and producer of content that is shared (i.e. genuinely
participates in a two way manner), and has a culture of clear
attribution. Makes
a substantial contribution of insight and/or intelligence to the vendor
and end-user communities on a free of charge basis. Has
clear mechanisms for gathering/inviting feedback from those that
matter, i.e. IT and business professionals in buying community (e.g.
via blogs and/or primary research) Transparency of funding “
RichDex http://www.richdex.com A collaboratively constructed open directory
SourceCamps replication materials http://replication.tacticaltech.org/ “This
wiki is an online resource for anyone interested in the organisation of
free/open source software training workshops aligned with the Source
Camp methodology that was developed by Tactical Technology Collective.”
TripAdvisor http://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelHome A travel suggestion and trip advice site create by fellow travellers Uncyclopedia http://uncyclopedia.info/wiki/Main_Page A humorous version of wikipedia.
We>Me http://wearesmarter.org/default.aspx “The central premise of We Are Smarter Than Me
is that large groups of people ("We") can, and should, take
responsibility for traditional business functions that are currently
performed by companies, industries and experts ("Me").
Since the beginning of publishing, books have been written by
individuals or by small groups of people (experts). This has even
applied to recent books that describe the power of community
intelligence. We Are Smarter Than Me
will test this paradox, and determine whether a community of authors
can write a compelling book better than individual experts. To write
this "network book," we are using wiki technology. This allows all
registered members of the community to edit, add and delete content at
will*, and allows the book to benefit from the collective wisdom of the
community.”
WikiA http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia A collection of wikis on many different arguments
WikiAnswers http://wiki.answers.com/ A collaborative answers site
WikiBooks http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page “Welcome
to Wikibooks, a Wikimedia project that was started on July 10, 2003
with the mission to create a free collection of open-content textbooks
that anyone can edit. Since our founding, volunteers have written about
25,639 modules in a multitude of textbooks.”
WikiMapia http://www.wikimapia.org “WikiMapia
is a Web 2.0 project to describe the whole planet Earth. It was created
by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, inspired by Google maps
and Wikipedia. “
WikiNomics http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikinomics/index.cgi Companion collaborative writing project of the book “Wikinomics”
WikiPedia http://www.wikipedia.org “Wikipedia
is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers; its articles can be
edited by anyone with access to the Internet. Wikipedia's name is a
portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and
encyclopedia.” WikiTravel http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page “wikitravel
is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable
world-wide travel guide. It is built in collaboration by Wikitravellers
from around the globe. Wikitravel is built with the spirit of sharing
knowledge that makes travel so enjoyable. Whenever travellers meet each
other on the road, they swap info about the places they came from and
ask questions about places they're going. We want to make it easy to
share that knowledge and let others share it; our copyleft license
means that the facts you know can spread far and wide. “ WoWWiki http://www.wowwiki.com/Main_Page A collaborative wiki devoted to the computer game World of Warcraft, with more than 33000 articles. WWL http://worldwidelexicon.wordpress.com/ “The
Worldwide Lexicon is an experimental project to make translating
websites, blogs and real-time IM conversations easy and accurate, using
a combination of human and machine translation. The service
monitors a website for new documents. When it sees new documents, WWL
translates them to several languages, and creates a wiki page for each
translation. (A wiki is a page that anyone can edit). The website’s
readers can edit and improve these translations, or start new
translations to any other language. A document can be translated to
many languages. WWL re-publishes the translations in the popular RSS
(syndication) and HTML (web) formats.”
Scientific research Collaborative Communities http://thesynapticleap.org/?q=userguide/communnities “The
Synaptic Leap communities are generally disease specific. Our goal is
to connect scientists with various research skills working on a
particular disease so that they may collaborate together and offer
fresh perspectives on the issues at hand. During our pilot phase, we
are focusing on tropical diseases. For example, we have a community for
malaria and a community for schisto. There is also a general community
for open source biomedical research It’s the only non-disease
oriented community and is intended to be a community for general open
and collaborative biomedical research tools, discussions and site
postings. Each community acts as a mini portal assembling recent
research articles, and web-based research tools to study the research
community's disease of focus. Users participating in multiple research
communities will quickly become familiar with this common
infrastructure. The various community tools will each be discussed
separately.”
Collaborative Drug Discovery http://www.collaborativedrug.com/ “Currently,
infectious diseases of the developing world (e.g., malaria,
tuberculosis) represent a global health challenge of the 21st century
and require new approaches that would allow scientists to do research
more effectively. As a result of the development of web-database
technologies, recently a community- ased approach to research on
infectious diseases of the developing world and global health has
emerged. The major components of effective scientific community
include: (1) unifying goal, or focus on common therapeutic
areas/diseases; (2) multiple research areas/expertise; (3) uniform
database platform that allows effective data accumulation and
management; (4) easy access and sharing of information; (5) potential
for unlimited growth. The Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) database
built by utilizing community-based web technologies currently provides
a platform that allows scientists to archive, mine, and share research
data with a focus on infectious diseases of the developing world. This
new collaborative technology allows researchers to build up networks of
technical experts around therapeutic or target areas thus facilitating
discovery of new drug candidates. It allows scientists to speed up the
research by sharing unpublished data providing new hope in the race to
overcome drug resistance. “
OpenContext http://www.opencontext.org/ “a
free, open access resource for the electronic publication of primary
field research from archaeology and related disciplines. Open Context
provides an integrated framework for users to search, explore, analyze,
compare and tag items from diverse field projects and collections.”
OpenMedSpel medical spelling word list http://www.e-medtools.com/openmedspel.html “OpenMedSpel is a open source medical spelling word list that is released under a GPL license. “ Pleiades http://www.unc.edu/awmc/pleiades.html “Pleiades
will provide on-line access to all information about Greek and Roman
geography assembled by the Classical Atlas Project for the Barrington
Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (R. Talbert, , Princeton, 2000.
Pleiades will also enable large-scale collaboration in order to
maintain and diversify this dataset. Combining open-content approaches
(like those used by Wikipedia) with academic-style editorial review,
Pleiades will enable anyone — from university professors to casual
students of antiquity — to suggest updates to geographic names,
descriptive essays, bibliographic references and geographic
coordinates. Once vetted for accuracy and pertinence, these suggestions
will become a permanent, author-attributed part of future publications
and data services.”
Geography/Mapping OpenStreetMap http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page “OpenStreetMap
is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic
data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was
started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or
technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using
them in creative, productive or unexpected ways.”
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