In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the 30th anniversary of the GNU Manifesto; Google Code shutting down; a new open source, voice…
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Welcome to the first installment of a monthly feature where I explore how open source software and the open source way are used in the digital humanities. Every month I will…
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The public domain. Creating legacy and enabling creativity, one literary work at a time. Works in the public domain belong to everyone. Anyone can use public domain works in…
Great work with the "What is open education" page. It does an excellent job of touching on all the main issues involved in open education. I'll definitely be passing it along to my acquaintances who are not (currently) into the open access/education/source movements.
I have to second Charlie's Focus Writer suggestion. It is a really nice program, especially when you get some nice themes set up.
I tend to use <a href="http://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/LaTeXila">LaTeXila</a> for a lot of my writing, but I can understand that most people don't want to bother with LaTeX.
<a href="https://www.zotero.org/">Zotero</a> is what I use to collect and organize research.
Great work with the "What is open education" page. It does an excellent job of touching on all the main issues involved in open education. I'll definitely be passing it along to my acquaintances who are not (currently) into the open access/education/source movements.