friends:
opensource:
- Linux
Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Developed under the GNU General Public License , the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone.
- Ubuntu
“Ubuntu” is an ancient African word, meaning “humanity to others”. Ubuntu also means “I am what I am because of who we all are”. The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.
- Open Office
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
- Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.
- Blender
Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
- Ogre
OGRE is packed with features to make your development life easier, whether you’re making games, architectural visualisation, simulations, or anything else which requires a top-notch 3D rendering solution.
- ODE
ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics. It is fully featured, stable, mature and platform independent with an easy to use C/C++ API.
- OpenAL
OpenAL is a cross-platform 3D audio API appropriate for use with gaming applications and many other types of audio applications.
- Gimp
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
- Inscape
inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
- synfig
Film quality 2D vector animation program licenced under the GNU.
- Wordpress
A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
- wiki
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
- Wikipedia
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
- Upcoming
Upcoming.org is a social event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site.
- Freesound
The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site? Read the What is Freesound page to learn more!
interactive art:
game study:
- Killology
The scholarly study of the destructive act, just as sexology is the scholarly study of the procreative act. In particular, killology focuses on the reactions of healthy people in killing circumstances (such as police and military in combat) and the factors that enable and restrain killing in these situations.
- Gamestudies
Game Studies is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research.
media study:
- Marshal McLuhan
study the psychic and social consequences of technologies and media.
- William Gibson
an American novelist, mostly of science fiction novels
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