Ein Nachtrag noch zur Reihe der rund um die re:publica erschienen Druckwerke zum netzpolitischen Themen: Ulrich Herb von der Wissenschaftsberatung scinoptica hat einen Sammelband mit dem Titel “Open Initiatives: Offenheit in der digitalen Welt und Wissenschaft” herausgegeben, der versucht die wachsende Vielfalt an Open-Bewegungen zu erschließen

Was ist eigentlich Linux, was der Kernel, was eine Distribution, und wofür steht GNU? Dabei geht er auch auf vermeintliche und echte Stärken und Schwächen des freien Betriebssystems ein: Software, Security, Support, Spiele und mehr.
Bevor er zum Praktischen und Technischen kommt, porträtiert der Autor außerdem noch die Open-Source-Community mit ihren Mailinglisten und Konferenzen und erklärt dem Linux-Neuling, wo er sich Hilfe holen kann.

Die Seite The Hacker Shelf ist eine wahre Fundgrube. Denn dort gibt es tonnenweise freie Literatur rund um die Themen Programmierung und Informatik nach verschiedenen Tags geordnet. Neben vielen Quellen zu Hochsprachen wie Python, kann man dort auch ausführliche Literatur zu eher technischen Themen wie der Assemblerprogrammierung finden.

This book is about complexity science, data structures and algorithms, intermediate programming in Python, and the philosophy of science

Think Python is the manuscript of Python for Software Design, published by Cambridge University Press.

In support of Free Books, Cambridge has agreed to keep this manuscript available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Readers are free to copy and distribute the text; they are also free to modify it, which allows them to adapt the book to different needs, and to help develop new material.

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Screencast-O-Matic is the original online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux with no install for FREE!

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Open source software has been a well known idea, and something of a success, for decades, open source hardware is relatively new. You can say that open source hardware was born out the of the "maker" movement, but for such an obvious idea it has been slow to take off. The one big notable exception being the Arduino.
In an effort to popularize the open hardware movement we now have the Open Hardware Journal starting with November 1, 2011 Issue 1. As it says on the cover page you are free to read it, copy it and redistribute it - as long as you don't charge a fee, of course..

Welcome to Wetpaint Central (WPC), the community for all users and fans of wikis by Wetpaint sites

free web site allows you to convert a PDF to an EPUB file

We are gathering a new tribe of storytellers: change-makers, marketers, entrepreneurs, and creatives who see storytelling as critical to their work and mission.

Most team meetings don’t just switch people off – they eat away at team members souls. Instead of the collective hum of a highly motivated and engaged team, working collaboratively to solve problems and share ideas, managers herd team members together and turning them in to the living dead.

In this FREE New Rules of Work eBook you’ll learn:

4 Priorities of an effective team meeting
How to use team meetings to improve performance
Best practice strategies that switch people on
Where to spend your time and effort

Eigentumsfragen sind Machtfragen. Nirgends werden diese Fragen lauter und provozierender gestellt als im Internet: Durch die Digitalisierung geistiger Werke und den schnellen Austausch von Daten und Informationen werden starre Verfügungsrechte aufgelöst. Die Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung und iRights.info präsentieren einen Reader zum Thema, mit Texten von Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Till Kreutzer, Ilja Braun und anderen.

The GNU/Linux systems have reached an important level of maturity, allowing to integrate them in almost any kind of work environment, from a desktop PC to the sever facilities of a big company.

In the module called "The GNU/Linux operating system", the main contents are related with system administration. This book is the main documentation for the module.

We will learn how to install and configure several computer services, and how to optimise and synchronise the resources.

The activities that will take place in this module cover the studied topics in a practical approach, applying these concepts in real GNU/Linux systems.

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Every designer needs a good collection of free fonts, when working on design projects weather your designing for the web or for print its always essential to have a good collection of fonts. Fonts can be very expensive especially when working on a design project with a small budget. This is a collection of the best free fonts created in 2009.

Freeplane is a new open-source mind mapping software program that is an offshoot of the popular Freemind program. About two years ago, a group of developers contributing to Freemind had some different ideas about its future development, and so they split off or “forked” away from its codebase. The result is a program that is already superior in many ways to Freemind.

Though Twitter only went public in July 2006 (according to Wikipedia, though many papers such as Java et al 2007 cite October 2006 as the launch date) quite an amount of Twitter research has already been published. Here is an overview of downloadable papers – please let me know if you find anything else.

In a SPIEGEL interview, Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of US technology and culture magazine Wired discusses the Internet's challenge to the traditional press, new business models on the Web and why he would rather read Twitter than a daily newspaper.

Tribal Leadership is part of the management and leadership part of the USC Executive MBA, which was ranked #1 in this area by the Wall Street Journal.

Social media are highly effective in the middle of the purchase funnel, to improve brand or product consideration during the period when consumers are gathering opinions and listening to word of mouth

Topics covered include:

* What makes creative people tick
* Why motivation is crucial to creative success
* Why you can’t motivate anybody - but what you can do instead
* What Iggy Pop can teach you about management
* Why offering rewards can harm creative performance
* How to write 47 novels before breakfast
* Why some people seem so weird - and how to deal with them
* The positive side of peer pressure

Although Yugma does come in paid versions that offer features like meetings for very large numbers of people, most web workers will find everything they need in the free version. One limitation Yugma still has is that the free version only supports 10 people in a meeting. The open source conferencing application Dimdim allows you to have 20 participants for free, and Dimdim also lets you record meetings for no fee.

"A Byte of Vim" is a book which aims to help you to learn how to use the Vim editor (version 7), even if all you know is how to use the computer keyboard.

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The first part of this book is meant for new users who want to understand what Vim is and learn how to use it.

The second part of this book is for people who already know how to use Vim and want to learn about features that make Vim so powerful, such as windows and tabs, personal information management, making it a programmer's editor, how to extend Vim with your own plugins, and more.

a neat little free social network analysis (SNA) tool which runs on both PCs and Macs (on top of Java). Agna allows social network data (directly input or imported from external systems) to be displayed, manipulated and analysed graphically in a number of

What he does is show how it's bad on a micro scale for certain companies. But, you could make that argument for anything.

OpenProj is a free, open source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project. The OpenProj solution is ideal for desktop project Click to enlarge in a new windowmanagement and is available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows. OpenProj is a complete desktop replace

GanttProject is a free and easy to use Gantt chart based project scheduling and management tool. Task hierarchy and dependencies, Gantt chart, Resource load chart, PERT chart, PDF and HTML reports, MS Project import/export, WebDAV based groupwork

Seit 2003 gibt Prof. Dr. Hoeren, einer der profiliertesten deutschen Onlinerechtler, ein fortlaufend aktualisiertes eBook zum Thema Internetrecht heraus.

Die Computermesse Cebit zeigt: Der Einsatz von Open-Source-Software ist inzwischen zuverlässig, sicher, günstig und frei. Vorreiter ist ein Berliner Ministerium.