Social Speeches
(Large MP3 collection of speeches on social issues)
Violence.de
(Online documents related to the theme: "The origins of peace and violence")
WorldChanging
("Models, Tools, and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future")
The Internet Archive
(Initiative for building a digital library of Internet sites and other
cultural artifacts in digital form to help preserver these for researchers,
historians, scholars, and the general public)
Unschooling
(Portal about "unschooling". Unschooling is an alternative form of a child's
primary and/or secondary education done from a home environment.)
(John Taylor Gatto's website)
Cryptome
(Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments
worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology,
dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and blast protection
-- open, secret and classified documents -- but not limited to those.)
OSHCA
("Open Source Health Care Alliance". Forum to promote and facilitate
OSS/FS in human and veterinary healthcare.)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
(Donor-supported membership organization, started in 1990, working to
protect our fundamental rights, regardless of technology. The EFF tries
to educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil
liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties.)
OpenI18N.org
(Initiative to develop and promote free standards for
software internationalization)
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Xiph
(Non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet
multimedia from control by private interests. Xiph supports and develops
several multimedia software projects.)
League for Programming Freedom
(Donor-supported organization, started in 1989, that opposes software
patents and user interface copyrights.)
Free Standards Group
(Non-profit organization for promoting and developing the use of
open standards for Free Software.)
FreeDesktop.org (Support
site for interoperability among free desktop environments)
(cvs)
(ml)
Free Networks
(Group of individuals and organizations that are committed to facing
the social, political and technical issues that occur in the creation
of free (as-in-speech) networks.)
(ml)
WaSP
("Web Standards Project". Working group for developing and promoting web
standards.)
ODFI
("Open Data Format Initiative". Non-profit organization promoting
the use and development of open data formats.)
OpenRAW
(Initiative to pressure digital camera vendors to describe the
structure of their RAW file format)
GPL Violations
(Initiative to help raise public awareness about past and present
infringing users/uses of GPL licensed software)
(ml)
OSSP
("Open Source Software Project". Non-profit organization sponsoring the
development of networking libraries and tools.)
OpenNIC
(User owned, international Network Information Center alternative to the
traditional top-level domain registries. OpenNIC was started in 2000 as a
reaction to the growing concern about the lack of democratic control within
the ICANN.)
ICANN Watch
(Critical commentary forum about the ICANN and other DNS related organizations)
mySociety
(Non-profit organization which tries to help governments and people
to setup usable websites)
Musicians Opensrc Org
(Web directory for musicians using free and/or open source software to
link to their music and to describe the hardware and software setups)
FreeNet
(Distributed, scalable, redundant, security and privacy focussed peer-to-peer system.
This system can be used to publish and retrieve documents anonymously. This system
also makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for repressive organizations to
delete content already on the freenet-work. Currently the FreeNet system is still in a
beta state.)
Politech
(Politech is the moderated mailing list of politics and
technology. Topics include privacy, free speech, the role
of government and corporations, antitrust, and more.)
PubSoft
(Non-profit organization which sponsors free software developers via 'third-party'
development requests.)
Open Archives
(Aims to develop and promote digital content interoperability standards.)
Free Software Distribution Project
(Distribution of CD-ROM's containing free operating systems by snail-mail for a nominal fee,
using voluntary financial donations.)
TheOpenCD
(Initiative to create and distribute a CD-ROM containing a selection of quality
free software for use on M$ Win32 variants.)
LinuxFund ('To be' non-profit
organization for the financial sponsoring of free software projects
and scholarships, in the USA and Canada, via a credit card system)
PeerCast
(Non-profit organization supporting free broadcasting software. PeerCast is also a
Gnutella protocol based peer-to-peer audio streaming system with support for Ogg Vorbis.)
(forum)
NodeDB
(Portal which registers publicly accessible 802.11b wireless
networking nodes around the world)
CA Cert
(Project to provide free client certificates and -maybe at a low
cost- checked server certificates.)
Open Patents
(Initiative to help change the rules of the (software) patent game,
such that it is to the advantage of participants and society in general.)
