BT FLOSS Overview

Here is a simplified list based on the information from the suggestions page -hopefully to help narrow things down a bit:

eMail

• Host mailboxes with secure people we like [not to be disclosed here!]
• Mail client: Thunderbird with GPG encryption
• Encrypt mailing lists (see suggestions page)

Calendar

• lightning add for thunderbird
• linux calendar
• Dudle ?

Website & Blog

• Remain as it is.

Voice over IP

Choice 1:

• Own hosted XMPP jingle (or Jabber)
• Client -still to be decided (see suggestions)

Choice 2:

• Mumble
• Pigin (supports XMPP)
• Adium (for Mac OS)

Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive

• Crabgrass
• LibreOffice

Collaborative project / task management

• Crabgrass
• Fengu Community Adition (hosted by our own server)

Collaborative Mapping

• Open Street Map - example here: [1]
• Open Map Quest [2] (OSS but company of AOL)  ?? (compromise until suitable alternative??)

File hosting / File sharing

• FTP with filezilla
• Sparkleshare (secure?? - hosted by our own server??)
• Ubuntu One (not really FLOSS ?)

Social Networking

• Diaspora
• Encourage use of RSS feeds
• Forums and discussion pages - maybe this is the next step - but possibly not for 2013 - unless you can help us make this happen (????)
• we.riseup.net / Crabgrass (for BT Orgs)

Micro Blogging

• Identica (linked to Dispora so that we do not duplicate work)

Web > tel : Bridging

• No real outcome yet - (see suggestions page)

Graphics Tools

For 2D Graphics:

• Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
  • Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
• inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!

Publishing:

• Scribus (alternative to indesign)
• Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

For Audio / Video Editing:

• Kedenlive
• Lightworks (from May 2013)
• Audacity (audio)

Photo / Video / Media Sharing

• Pingu
• Diaspora (?)
• Plumi [3] (video sharing)

Operating Systems

• Linux

For smartphone or tablet

• Android (with modified version ie cyanogen mod)

Other Tools ????

• freedom box!
• RSS readers

Tools and website which support a free web

Microdonations:

• flatter
• Mifos