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FOSS platform for project management, time tracking, and scheduling

Free anti-spyware scanner for Windows.

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.

Open Source platform for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), providing Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.

Anaphraseus is a CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool, OpenOffice.org 2 macro set similar to famous Wordfast. Works with Wordfast Translation Memory format (*.TXT). Supports text segmentation. Features: Term Recognition. Fuzzy Search. Unicode support.

industry standard open source web server

A small tool that provides ability to mirror any parts (or even all) of Debian and Ubuntu GNU/Linux distributions and/or any other apt sources which typically provided by open source developers.

Autshumato Integrated Translation Environment (ITE) is a free computer aided translation application. It provides a single translation environment that contains translation memory, machine translation and a glossary to facilitate the translation process.

Although Autshumato ITE is specifically developed for the eleven official South African languages, it is in essence language independent, and can be adapted for translating between any language pair.

Inexpensive antivirus software for up to five computers.

B1 Free Archiver is an absolutely free and handy compression tool. Works under Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. Is 100% free for personal and corporate use.

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

data presentation for websites, build and embed sortable spreadsheets

Drupal module for detecting browser capabilities.

Interesting for various use cases including mobile.

Bugzilla is server software designed to help you manage software development.

CHASERS stands for Client Housing And Service Entry and Reporting System. It acts as a database program for a variety of client attributes. Originally used for the Downtown Emergency Services Center to assist the homeless, it can track clients, services and operations.

Free E-Advocacy for Grassroots

CleanUp! is a powerful and easy-to-use application that removes temporary files created while surfing the web, empties the Recycle Bin, deletes files from your temporary folders and more.

CleanUp! frees disk space and reduces the "clutter" on your computer helping it to run more efficiently. It also can be used as a way to protect your privacy on the Internet. You can even instruct CleanUp! to securely delete files making it impossible to retrieve their contents using lower-level disk tools - just another way of protecting your privacy.

Learn code for free online or teach code by creating a course.

Colloquy is an advanced IRC & SILC client

An open source content management system written in PHP with MySQL database concentrating on user-friendliness.

Context allows you to manage contextual conditions and reactions for different portions of your site. You can think of each context as representing a "section" of your site. For each context, you can choose the conditions that trigger this context to be active and choose different aspects of Drupal that should react to this active context. Think of conditions as a set of rules that are checked during page load to see what context is active. Any reactions that are associated with active contexts are then fired.

The Cross Lingual Wiki Engine project aims to design, develop and test lightweight wiki tools that can be used to translate content in wikis. At present the project is implemented as part of TikiWiki.

Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP client for Mac OS X. Cyberduck is easy to use and includes features such as uploading and downloading by drag and drop. It can also synchronise files and directories. Cyberduck includes a bookmark manager and supports the Mac OS X Keychain and Bonjour networking

Linux distribution with a very strong community

Dict.org is a hosted dictionary. It is based on the GPL software GCIDE.

DotNetNuke is a Web Application Framework for creating web sites, intranets and extranets, and online publishing portals. It is similar to Plone or Drupal, but runs on ASP rather than PHP.

dotSUB is a browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the web into and from any language.

An award-wining free software replacement to remove software installations from your computer.It loads faster, and displays the additional information with clickable URLs (if available). In addition, it allows you to perform multiple uninstalls in a row.

Math, science and tech courses offered for free from leading US universities.

A free utility available only to nonprofits that inventories the software and hardware of the computer on which it is running.

In Aspiration's travels around the nonprofit software ecosystem, these are the free and open source platforms that most consistently deliver successful solutions for web publishing needs.

At present, it's "The Big 4". We welcome your suggestions on what else should be on this list.

Free hosted event planning and invitation mailing website.

Create a RSS feed that consists of articles and links from a number of different pages.

Free FTP client software.

Firefox is the popular open source web browser from Mozilla

Drupal model providing flexible, customizable flagging system. Supports any number of flags for nodes, comments, or users for purposes which include bookmarks, marking important, friends, or flag as offensive.

Open source platform for grants management

Free conference call service.

Free and Open Source software for translators

Use this Web site to find postal codes (if applicable) and other mailing guidelines for international addresses.

Get the latest discount offers, free samples, beauty freebies, diet products, promotional offers, free cosmetics, real free stuff, the best freebies, and free prize competitions where you can win prizes like new cars, free holidays, all free gift cards, free cosmetic product sample, free make-up and real UK vouchers at www.isjustfree.com

Free online platforms I use to learn things

Conference calls for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Scheduled or on-demand. Free and premium services available.

Free database of music CD metadata.

Until now — and probably for a while in most heads — the GNU/Linux system at school has been perceived as a good replacement of other proprietary servers. However the server is probably the least important things in term of freedom in a school network

FrontlineSMS provides an affordable, standalone turn-key solution to NGOs, allowing them to access 'group' SMS technology.

GanttProject is a tool for creating a project schedule by means of a Gantt chart and resource load chart. GanttProject allows you to break down your project into a tree of tasks and assign human resources that have to work on each task. You can also establish dependencies between tasks, like "this task can't start until this one is finished". GanttProject renders your project using two charts: Gantt chart for tasks and resource load chart for resources. You may print the charts, generate PDF and HTML reports, exchange data with Microsoft(R) Project(TM) and spreadsheet applications.

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.

Gengo is a full featured plugin that provides multi-language blogging for WordPress 2.5+. It allows for an unlimited number of translations and summaries for any post and provides template tags to display language information. It allows you to edit translations side by side, detects and filters by language automatically when a visitor comes to your site and automatically generates semantic information for links and content blocks.

Geographic.org offers free, downloadable maps and flags from around the world. Ideal for finding graphics for international presentations. Additional features include a list of country and airport codes.

GForge helps you manage the entire development life cycle

Free graphics manipulation program similar to Adobe Photoshop.

Glossmaster is the multi-lingual terminology tool developed for ANLoc, the African Network for Localization.

Glossmaster contains a core list of 2500 information technology terms that have been selected from a wide variety of software applications originally written in English, with definitions for each term in English, as well as other information that will help clarify the underlying technical concepts.

GNOME Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, translation and synchronization.

This is the Spanish dictionary for use with the aspell spell checker. NOTE: You must have aspell installed first.

Google is the quintessential search engine.

Hosted web/email/usenet discussion groups.

GotFreeFax.com lets user send free fax online to the US and Canada. No Ads added to fax. No need to signup or login. User can either enter rich text or upload a PDF/Word file to fax. Free service has limit of 3 pages per fax and 2 faxes per day. Pay-per-use fax and prepaid fax services also available.

The open source GIS platform, powerful and cross platform

gtranslator is a GNOME2 application intended to make editing PO files
easy for language translators.

Publish and Host your RSS Feed for FREE

Free hosted e-mail service.

Free open source fax server software.

Icecast is free server software for streaming multimedia.

Ini Translator is a utility program to translate ini-style language files, with a look and feel reminiscent of poEdit.

Free, easy to use, online invoicing service.

Ispell is a program that enables users to correct spelling and typographical errors in a file. When presented with a word that is not in the dictionary, Ispell attempts to find near misses that might include the word you meant.

Free basic online video editor

Bug tracker. Not open source, and only free to non-profits, but excellent.

A learning management system that allows the user to create dynamic online educational courses that include multilanguage support, collaborative whiteboards and tutorials.

Kaltura is both an open source video streaming platform as well as a service on which you can host online videos. Offers plugins for Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress, and Moodle.

KBabel is a set of tools for editing and managing gettext PO files.

Application that allows you to manage Google Calendar and Contacts through Microsoft Outlook.

Kyfiethu is a web-based Welsh translation workflow tool. It is based on Kartouche.

Launchpad Translations (codenamed "Rosetta") is a platform for open source application translation on the internet. It lets anybody help translate their favorite open source application into their favorite spoken language. Launchpad supports most localizable open-source applications.

LibreOffice is the free Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.

GNU/Linux operating system adapted for translators. Linguas OS is a remaster of PCFluxboxOS built for translators.

Free font management application for Apple Mac OS X. Great for Graphic Designers or anyone that has a collection of fonts

LiveGiving offers free video channels to nonprofits as a simple solution for publishing videos, increasing views acquiring donations.

An online chart-creating tool, Lovely Charts allows you to create sharp diagrams, charts and site maps.

Excellent free web-based tool to coordinate meetings between many people without wading through emails.

Hosted IRC client

Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing (documents, images, media files, etc.), task and project management, team collaboration and Wiki editing

Miro Community lets you bring together all the videos about a topic, a community, or product into one elegant website, no matter where the videos are hosted.

MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework that helps you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced users to give as much control as desired to whomever they desire for day-to-day website content maintenance chores.

A free backlink checking tool and website analyzer. Provides an up-to-date list of backlinking pages, regularly updated lists of top websites by visitors and by page rank. Will be a great help for your SEO work and competitor analysis.

Multifox is an extension that allows Firefox to connect to websites using different user names, simultaneously.

Track uptime, latency, webserver & host information, ip address changes.

NewsRack is a tool/service for classifying, filing, and long-term archiving of news. Users specify filtering rules which are used to select relevant articles from incoming news feeds. The selected articles are then classified into various categories.

The Okapi Framework is a set of interface specifications, format definitions, components and applications that provides an environment to build interoperable tools for the different steps of the translation and localization process.

OmegaT+ is a free Computer Assisted/Aided Translation tool used by translators, localization engineers, and other language professionals.

Open Office for Kids is a lighter version of OpenOffice.Org, dedicated to grades 7-12, with specific adaptations to the world of education. Runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, with international /multilingual support.

This is a collection of Free and Open Source (FOSS or FLOSS) software tools that support translation and localization of software and content.

These tools were mapped out and discussed by the participating projects at Aspiration's Open Translation Tools 2007 and Open Translation Tools 2009 events.

Please check out the wiki and participant video!

Tools tagged with ott07 and ott09 were represented at the respective events.

Free, Open dynamic web mapper. (An alternative to Google/Yahoo Maps)

OpenMRS is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework intended to aid resource-constrained healthcare environments.

Full-featured open source video editor

Free contact and donor database for grassroots organizing groups. Also known as ODB.

Free email client included with Microsoft Windows.

Take screenshots of websites/pages that you can print out *on one page*. Great for archiving, presentations, etc. esp. when not connected to the Internet.

Lets you create editable XLS files and re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office.

Do it yourself web app development.
Coded form templates.

Open source web statistics and audience measurement software.

Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple, and makes it easy to share your pictures; you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, and even post pictures.

PmWiki is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites.

POEditor is an online localization tool that provides a very simple user interface and many helpful features for developers and translators.
It works with many file types such as .po, .pot, .strings, .xml, .resx, .xsls, which you can use to manage your translation projects.
Features such as the POEditor translation memory or its reference language option make it one of the best options for software translation.
It is free for open source projects and limited for others.

Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.

Protégé is a free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework. Users can structure information by progressively designing its structure into knowledge.

Create a RSS feed that consists of articles and links from a number of different pages

Qt Linguist is a tool for adding translations to Qt applications.

Ruby on Rails based Content Management System (CMS)

Free, online image editor that allows you to easily upload an image, resize and crop it and then download the new version.

Brilliant file synchronisation tool

Web-based CRM that donates licenses to nonprofits

Free email server software with web-based interface for users and administrators.

A screen casting tool that supports web-based onscreen recording. No download is required, and users can upload to YouTube directly.

Drupal module that provides standardized solution for integrating external applications with Drupal.

The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of the iptables utility, Shorewall configures Netfilter to match your requirements.

SMF is a free, professional grade forum tool using PHP and MYSQL. Integrates well with Joomla using a bridge add-on.

The SNEEcalendar community provides a free web calendar system for posting your organization's events and messages.

Free multilingual anti-spyware software for Windows.

StatusNet is the open source microblogging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain. With StatusNet you can encourage collaboration, build and engage your community, and be in command of your brand.

Subtitle Editor is a GTK+2 tool to edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD. It can be used for new subtitles or as a tool to transform, edit, correct and refine existing subtitles. The program also displays sound waves, making it easier to synchronize subtitles to voices.

A free, hosted image editor with features similar to Photoshop. Interaction feels like a desktop application.

Sylpheed is a lightweight open source email and news client offering quick response, easy configuration and an abundance of features. Sylpheed is free software licensed under the GPL. It's a good choice for if you have limited computing power and don't need all the features of Thunderbird.

A tool to build and maintain your group's email list. Free hosted web app.

Tool for organizing your next potluck dinner. Free hosted web app.

A simple, free program that analyzes text files and returns statistics such as word frequency and concordance information.

Works with Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Documents as well as simple text files and many others.

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A simple counter for the browser that calculates the value of ad impressions that the user experiences.

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (35+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty. It is actively developed by a very large international community. Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge base, intranets, and extranets.

Tiki offers a very large number of features "out-of-the-box", arguably more than any other Open Source Web Application. Highly configurable and modular, all features are optional and administered via a web-based interface.

Major features include a robust wiki engine, news articles, discussion forums, newsletters, blogs, file and image galleries, bug and issue trackers (form generator), a links directory, polls/surveys and quizzes, FAQs, banner management system, calendar, maps, mobile version, RSS feeds, category system, tags, an advanced themeing engine (Smarty), spreadsheet, live support, shoutbox, inter-user messaging, menu generator, advanced permission system for users and groups, internal search engine, external authentication support, and much, much more.

A simple text editor for Mac OS X with syntax highlighting (colors code differently for easier reading) and multiple document handling.

Simple and free time tracking tool.

Free software for anonymous Internet communication.

Trac is a web-based software project management and bug/issue tracking system. It provides an interface to Subversion and an integrated wiki.

The Translate Toolkit is designed by localisers for localisers. Its aim is to make localisation easier and of higher quality. The toolkit can convert between various different translation formats and makes it possible to stay in one format across all localisation tasks.

Transolution is a Computer Aided Translation (CAT) suite supporting the XLIFF standard with features to improve translation efficiency and quality. The suite provides an XLIFF Editor, translation memory engine and filters to convert different formats to and from XLIFF.

Free online virus scan

Services that are hosted or act online, not software.

GNU-Linux Distribution, 100% free. Made in Argentina.

An open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web.

Vertimus is an open source web tool for managing workflow for translations. Each translation has a status which changes at each step, and users can create an account, book any translation and communicate with a team. An example of Vertimus in action can be found at http://gnomefr.traduc.org/suivi. The first release provides support for localization between English and French.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

"A hosted virtualization platform that installs like an application on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines."

Browser based slideshow/collaboration platform.

free gallery generation tool

Free web conferencing tool that can make and record conference calls and online presentations.

Create a free website or blog in minutes by using a simple drag and drop interface. No ads. One of Time's 50 best websites of the year.

Simple, easy to use, free wiki service.

Anti-malware software for Windows.

WiserEarth is an NGO directory and social networking platform that maps and connects organizations and individuals working for the environment, social justice and human rights.

The Wordforge Off-line Localization Editor, previously known as Pootling, is an intelligent, platform-independent offline localization tool developed specifically to allow translators to get the most out of the XLIFF file format.

Recommended plugins and other tools for creating and maintaining a site with WordPress.

Most of these tools were used to create & manage fusedc.org, a volunteer-run resource website for nonprofit social justice professionals with a focus on the DC community.

WPML is a WordPress plugin that can turn any WordPress or WordPressMU site into a full featured multilingual content management system.

Open source brainstorming and mind mapping software tool developed by XMind Ltd. It helps people to capture ideas, organize to various charts, and share them for collaboration. Supporting mind maps, fishbone diagrams, tree diagrams, org-charts, logic charts, and even spreadsheets.

XOOPS is an extensible, OO (Object Oriented), dynamic web content management system written in PHP. XOOPS can be used for developing small to large dynamic community websites.

A file viewer that runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

xVNC is a free extension to tightvnc in vb6 visual basic that copies, installs, configures and executes and also removes the vnc system on/from a remote machine.

Open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, such as video streams, image files and raw intensity sensors. It supports many popular symbologies (types of bar codes) including EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR Code.

Suite of web-based office productivity and collaboration applications