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The Sources of Under The Surface
The availability of thousands of Open Source Applications and the need to weave through them and come up with a few useful ones for teachers to use, was the motivator behind this project. Listed below are the sources used in this Summer 2008 project headed by Technology Services' Alan Hodson.
| Rank | URL | Description | Ease of Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | http://tinyurl.com/s5uw5 | Sourceforge 5,500 Education Projects repository | Difficult |
| 2 | http://tossfoundation.org/foss.html | Open Source Victoria Software Catalog (Links and descriptors) |
Medium |
| 3 | http://freshmeat.net/browse/71/ | Freshmeat/Education: 828 Open Source Projects |
Difficult |
| 4 | http://tinyurl.com/57kh5c | Knosciences CD(*): Software list (*) CD available as standalone boot |
Medium |
| 5 | http://tinyurl.com/s5uw5 |
Schoolforge - 5,500 FOSS solutions for education | Difficult |
| 6 | http://tinyurl.com/3e4sh8 | Texas Open Source Software OS Resources Blog |
Easy |
| 7 | http://links.episd.org/ | Teacher, student and parent resources with extensive pulldown menus- motherload |
Easy |
| 8 | http://tossfoundation.org/ | Open Source advocacy - an educational and community resource | Easy |
| 9 | http://tinyurl.com/3hblj | Linux Questions: Windows Equivalency (What free programs are equivalent to Win) |
Easy |
| 11 | http://theopendisc.com | High Quality Open Source Software for Windows | .ISO image |