OpenSource

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
 * **Open source** is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the design and production of goods and knowledge. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration. || [[image:v7_n_opensource.jpg align="left"]] ||
 * [|Stellarium]**

The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
 * [|Celestia]**

Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers.
 * [|FireFox]**

Open Officeis a free and open source office suite, including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing and database components.
 * [|Open Office]**

The wiki software is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change all content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing.
 * [|Wikipedia]**

Audacity is a free cross platform digital audio editor. Audacity is extremely popular in the podcasting world due to its wide availability, its multiplatform support, and free pricing.
 * [|Audacity]**

Chat on any service you'd like - AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, Jabber, ICQ - with this multi-platform, tabbed IM client.
 * [|Gaim]**

Norton bugging you again to break out the credit card and subscribe? Uninstall! ClamWin is free anti-virus software with automatic updates and scheduled scans, no credit card required.
 * [|ClamWin]**

Got a video or audio file Windows Media Player or Quicktime can't play? Betcha VLC can.
 * [|VLC media player]**

Before you donate, sell or trash your hard drive, you want to make sure there are no traces of your private data on it. Eraser uses the same algorithm the government uses to wipe your hard drive clean.
 * [|Eraser]**

Another app you really don't hear a lot about, but for anyone with more than 6 different passwords, KeePass is indispensable.
 * [|KeePass]**

Without question, the best desktop publishing software in the open source universe. It's powerful, easy to use, and provides the kind of user interface that is not going to send your design staff screaming into the employee lounge seeking refuge.
 * [|Scribus]**

Here is a document of a list of open source programs. Called a "short list" of open source programs but it is quite extensive.

This is a .pdf of a presentation from the Georgia Education Technology Conference titled Open Source Applications: Ready for Prime Time. These are programs that are ready to use in the classroom.


 * Both of these documents were created by [|Jim Klien], an innovator of open source applications and a Director of Information Services and Technology for the [|Saugus Union School District.]