Community-based exhibits in 50 U.S. states and (at least) 23 countries raise awareness of intimate partner violence and promote prevention efforts by sharing the names and stories of individuals killed in domestic assaults.
A free (libre), open-source (GNU GPL) content management framework written in PHP with support for a number of operating-systems, web-servers and databases.
Drupal made international news following the U.S. White House's October 2009 web redesign. The variety of Drupal-powered websites demonstrates the platform's flexibility. Notable examples include British Medical Journal (BMJ); Stanford Law School, and Turner Broadcasting.
A free (libre), open-source (GNU LGPL) web-conferencing system developed with support from the Mozilla Foundation's WebFWD project. Designed for online education, BigBluebutton provides voice- and video-conferencing capabilities that include conference recording, presentation uploads, virtual whiteboard, and simultaneous webcam users.
The BigBlueButton server runs on Linux, but virtual machine images are available for running the server on other platforms.
A project of the Sunlight Foundation, Open States provides data about legislatures in all 50 U.S. states via an easy-to-navigate website, the Open States API (JSON, RSS, iCalendar) and state-by-state bulk data downloads (CSV, JSON).
Search for the revision that added or deleted the specified text in a Wikipedia article and the user who is to blame. Great for fixing broken references.
Social networking and career profiles/portfolios for software and web developers and designers. Automatically aggregates content from open-source project hosts, other social networks, e-learning and learn-to-program sites, app stores, etc.
“…a non-profit created by founding partners Harvard and MIT. We're bringing the best of higher education to students around the world. EdX offers MOOCs and interactive online classes in subjects including law, history, science, engineering, business, social sciences, computer science, public health, and artificial intelligence…”
Publication series from Just Associates “about the strategies and ideas shaping social justice work produced… in collaboration with various partners. Each publication takes on a different theme.”
Publications are available for free download in PDF format.
“…America's largest independent charity evaluator, provides free ratings of the Financial Health and Accountability & Transparency of thousands of charities. We are the individual donor's first source for unbiased news and information on philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, wise giving, donating money, charitable donations, and charity ratings.”
A project based at the University of Michigan and funded by a worldwide group of libraries.
As of 1 January 2015, three TCP collections are publicly available: Eighteenth Century Collection Online, Evans Early American Imprints, and Phase 1 of Early English Books Online.
Virginia Commonwealth University's projects related to employment for people with disabilities and continuing education for disability employment professionals.
Three-month retreats in NYC for people who want to get better at programming. Limited cost-of-living grants are available for accepted participants from underrepresented groups. The (experimental) profit model is based on companies who pay to recruit the program's participants and alumni.
Trialware.
From Lifehacker (old version): "Leopard's built-in Airport utility doesn't do much except show you what Wi-Fi networks are nearby, and which require a password—but free utility AirRadar does much more. AirRadar detects available Wi-Fi networks (in my case, more networks showed up in AirRadar's list than in Leopard's default menubar drop-down), and displays more information like signal strength, last seen timestamp, channel, signal average, max, and min. Disconnect from networks without turning off your Airport card, get Growl notifications, and set the scan interval with AirRadar too. You can even save networks as favorites, instead of just hopping onto any old open network by default. If you've got a spotty signal you'll appreciate AirRadar's signal to noise line graphs, too. AirRadar is a free download for Mac only."
The Gutenberg-e prize is a collaborative effort between Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association, committed to exploring and promoting the electronic publication of scholarly writing. The Andrew W. Mellon foundation provides financial support for the project.
D. Cowan, P. Alencar, F. McGarry, C. de Lucena, and I. Nunes. 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, page 528-532. IEEE Computer Society, (2010)