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FOSS platform for project management, time tracking, and scheduling

Helps someone with no coding knowledge to create a tour of a homepage or website.

Apertium is a machine translation platform, initially aimed at related-language pairs, but recently expanded to deal with more divergent language pairs (such as English-Catalan). The platform provides a language-independent machine translation engine, tools to manage the linguistic data necessary to build a machine translation system for a given language pair, and linguistic data for 21 language pairs, with more under development.

The platform also includes cell phone applications, blog plugins, web services and several graphical user interfaces. Apertium may translate plain text, web sites or documents without loss of formatting.

An open source webmail program.

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.

Use this page to make a panel for your web-page or blog that will display the status of a bill on OpenCongress.

Bricolage is a content management system geared towards organizations with a content workflow beyond simply "write then post".

Advanced features include configurable workflows, customizable document types, multisite management capabilities, and comprehensive Perl- and PHP-based templating support, Bricolage has been designed to scale to meet the demanding needs of large organizations.

Bricolage is designed to run independent of a web server and publish to a webserver.

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.

Clickpath maintains a list of the last 10 pages visited by each user, and displays those ten pages in a sidebar block. It can also optionally override Drupal's breadcrumb trail to implement wiki-style "how you got here" breadcrumbs. (user history)

Web-based software for collaborative creation of dictionaries.

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

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.

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

Docebo is an e-Learning platform (LMS and LCMS) that supports 12 languages, is compliant to the SCORM 1.2 standard, and different didactic models. Including: Blended, Self-Directed, Collaborative and even Social Learning through Chat, Wiki, Forums etc.

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

Built on the popular Drupal CMS system, DrupalEd can be used as an informal and/or formal learning site where students, teachers, classes etc have comparable and/or hierarchical permissions.

Open source document management software. Includes document library, calendar, task management and Gantt Charts.

Open source, open standards content management system written in Java that includes OpenSocial components for collaboration (eXo Social)

The eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is a flexible indexing, display and query tool that supports searching across collections of heterogeneous data and presents results in a highly configurable manner.

XTF is an open-source project of the eScholarship Publishing Group of the California Digital Library, and is deployed in academic settings worldwide.

Fantasdic is a DICT client. It is multi-platform and written in the Ruby programming language. It retrieves definitions from the internet via the DICT protocol instead of from a file on the local hard drive.

FLOSS Manuals is a wiki-like platform for generating user manuals for free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS). The goal of the project is to make free software more accessible by providing clear documentation that accurately explains their purpose and use. The manuals on FLOSS Manuals are written by a community of people, who do a variety of things to keep the manuals as up to date and accurate as possible. The way in which FLOSS Manuals are written mirrors the way in which FLOSS (Free, libre open source) software itself is written: by a community who contribute to and maintain the content.

Free and Open Source software for translators

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

Gaupol is a software tool for the Windows operating system that translates subtitles on video from one language to another. Focused on being accessible to the user, Gaupol emphasizes simplicity and ease of use and can work in many subtitle file formats.

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.

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.

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

Opensource learning management tool.

ImpressCMS is a community developed Content Management System for building and maintaining dynamic web sites.

ImpressCMS is designed for a wide range of users, from business to community users, from large enterprises to people who want a simple, easy to use blogging tool.

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

Cross-platform, open source, free, video editing, effects, and compositing suite. It is currently in alpha stage, supporting realtime effects rendering, but lacking useful features such as the non-linear editing system.

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.

Open source document management software that allows you to share, store, edit and collaborate on documents meant for many members of an organization.

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.

An open source survey application, LimeSurvey is available in over 40 languages.

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

Configurable, flexible and extensible digital asset management system, handles both print and multimedia file formats.

An open source web application firewall. Network based, http traffic logging with real-time monitoring and attack detection.

Moses is a statistical machine translation system that allows you to automatically train translation models for any language pair. All you need is a collection of translated texts (parallel corpus).

OffstageArts is a database system meant to serve all the needs of a typical nonprofit or nonprofit arts organization. It integrates donor development, marketing, ticketing, and school management into one system. All interactions of the organization with its constituents are tracked.

OmegaT is a free translation memory application written in Java. It is a tool intended for professional translators.

A collaborative project to produce a free, multilingual resource in every language, with lexicological, terminological and thesaurus information.

An open source project management tool for teams, Open Atrium provides teams with a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a to-do list, a "shoutbox" and a dashboard to keep track of what is going on.

The program is customizable, extensible and built on the Drupal platform.

The community portal including wiki,blog,forum and much more for open source topics

Fully functional integrated web-based open source ERP (enterprise management system).

OpenDX is a full-featured software package for the visualization of scientific, engineering and analytical data: Its open system design is built on a standard interface environments. And its sophisticated data model provides users with flexibility in creating visualizations.

An Open Source, self hosted web office.

OpenPro ERP software is a complete web based software package. OpenPro Web Based ERP Software enables companies to manage all key business operations in a single, integrated system, which includes customer relationship management; supply chain, order management and fulfillment; inventory management; finance; general Ledger; payables; receivables ; ecommerce and Web site management; manufacturing; fixed assets; warranty management; and employee productivity. OpenPro Web Based ERP software is implemented traditionally at the customers site, or can be deployed as software as a service (SAAS).

A sampling of open source tools highlighted at Penguin Days, including Penguin Day San Francisco

Open source web statistics and audience measurement software.

A multi-protocol Instant Messaging (IM) client

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

Pootle is a web portal that simplifies the translation process. It allows online translation, work assignment, gives statistics and allows volunteer contribution.

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.

Ruby on Rails based Content Management System (CMS)

An open source, hosted digital asset management (DAM) tool that allows you to organize photos and video in an easy to access central location.

Open source code that turns Salesforce.com into a CRM for nonprofits

SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools that empower users to access, manage, visualize and reuse digital assets. Learn more about the SIMILE project.

An open source web application server environment for developing web-database applications. Requires only knowledge of SQL and HTML.

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.

These are the tools that I have to use in order to be the best SSC Community Manager that there is. Whether it be updating the WordPress blog with Cyberduck or chatting on Adium about Google Analytics, these tools help my world go 'round.

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.

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

Virtaal is a graphical translation tool. It is meant to be easy to use and powerful at the same time. Although the initial focus is on software translation (localisation or l10n), it is definitely useful for other forms of translation.

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.

Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be applied directly to a dataset or called from your own Java code. Weka contains tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. It is also well-suited for developing new machine learning schemes.

Wiktionary is a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. Designed as the lexical companion to Wikipedia, Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices.

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.

The Worldwide Lexicon enables people to create translation communities around any website, blog or topic. WWL combines automatic machine translation with people, who edit and improve machine translations.

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.

A Wiki supporting skins, APIs, RSS feeds, PDFs developed in Java.