Comments for Open Sesame http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame A blog about free access to ideas and information Sat, 17 May 2008 02:24:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Why my patrons should love Koha ZOOM by Nicole C. Engard http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/74#comment-2723 Nicole C. Engard Tue, 13 May 2008 10:39:02 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/?p=74#comment-2723 Jern, Koha with Class is still available, but I don't think Koha Zoom is available with it - yet. Keep an eye out for some changes probably after the 3.0 release. Jern, Koha with Class is still available, but I don’t think Koha Zoom is available with it - yet. Keep an eye out for some changes probably after the 3.0 release.

]]> Comment on Why my patrons should love Koha ZOOM by Jørn http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/74#comment-2720 Jørn Tue, 13 May 2008 08:43:19 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/?p=74#comment-2720 Possibly off-topic, but is Koha Zoom available through Koha with Class? Is Koha with Class still alive? http://blogs.liblime.com/koha-with-class/ Regards Possibly off-topic, but is Koha Zoom available through Koha with Class? Is Koha with Class still alive? http://blogs.liblime.com/koha-with-class/

Regards

]]> Comment on Open Source Social Networking by Lee Phillips http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/67#comment-2480 Lee Phillips Thu, 01 May 2008 04:08:41 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/67#comment-2480 I love this kind of info...keep it up! I love this kind of info…keep it up!

]]> Comment on What’s your favorite open source product? by Bryant Patten http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2318 Bryant Patten Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:30:43 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2318 Nicole - One of my current favorites is Untangle (www.untangle.com). Not only does it provide a great deal of functionality but it has several other meta- attributes that I am hoping show the future direction of many FOSS projects. These include: 1) A really visually spectacular and easy user interface. 2) A quite friendly and stable install process from their ISO image. 3) Free support via forums and an option for phone support for a subscription fee with a 'real company' answering the phone. I know for a lot of librarians the 'F-Word' refers to filtering so they might miss Untangle but they might want to give it another look since filtering is only one part of its offerings - and can easily be shut off! Nicole -
One of my current favorites is Untangle (www.untangle.com). Not only does it provide a great deal of functionality but it has several other meta- attributes that I am hoping show the future direction of many FOSS projects. These include:

1) A really visually spectacular and easy user interface.
2) A quite friendly and stable install process from their ISO image.
3) Free support via forums and an option for phone support for a subscription fee with a ‘real company’ answering the phone.

I know for a lot of librarians the ‘F-Word’ refers to filtering so they might miss Untangle but they might want to give it another look since filtering is only one part of its offerings - and can easily be shut off!

]]> Comment on What’s your favorite open source product? by Kitaj http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2316 Kitaj Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:12:24 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2316 Well, Debian is the biggest piece of OSS that I use. Otherwise I would add Inkscape, Scribus, eXe and ClamAV. GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/about/ http://www.gimp.org/about/COPYING Well, Debian is the biggest piece of OSS that I use.
Otherwise I would add Inkscape, Scribus, eXe and ClamAV.

GIMP:
http://www.gimp.org/about/
http://www.gimp.org/about/COPYING

]]> Comment on What’s your favorite open source product? by Kevin Scheib http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2315 Kevin Scheib Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:57:07 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2315 The Gimp is the GNU Image Manipulation Program and is released under the GPL which specifies that the source code be readily accessible. More information is found under the faq page http://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#Where The Gimp is the GNU Image Manipulation Program and is released under the GPL which specifies that the source code be readily accessible. More information is found under the faq page http://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#Where

]]> Comment on What’s your favorite open source product? by Harvey Morrell http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2307 Harvey Morrell Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:44:57 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2307 http://www.winlibre.com/en/index.php has several open source software options for those stuck in a Windows environment. Nicole: From the Gimp site: GIMP is Free Software and a part of the GNU Project. In the free software world, there is generally no distinction between users and developers. As in a friendly neighbourhood, everybody pitches in to help their neighbors. Please consider the time you give in assistance to others as payment. Sure sounds like open source to me. For those on the Mac OS X side looking for open source software: http://www.opensourcemac.org/ http://www.winlibre.com/en/index.php has several open source software options for those stuck in a Windows environment.

Nicole: From the Gimp site: GIMP is Free Software and a part of the GNU Project. In the free software world, there is generally no distinction between users and developers. As in a friendly neighbourhood, everybody pitches in to help their neighbors. Please consider the time you give in assistance to others as payment. Sure sounds like open source to me.

For those on the Mac OS X side looking for open source software:
http://www.opensourcemac.org/

]]> Comment on What’s your favorite open source product? by Jerry Yarnetsky http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2306 Jerry Yarnetsky Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:36:12 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2306 It is a rather indirect reference. On top it mentions that GIMP is for "GNU Image Manipulation Program" GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) is supported by the Free Software Foundation. All the Gn software is under their umbrella such as the Gnome interface for Linux. On the desktop there's always good ol' OpenOffice. On the server side, the newly release Omeka digital projects software is showing real promise. I use Textpattern for our library's website. It is a rather indirect reference. On top it mentions that GIMP is for “GNU Image Manipulation Program” GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) is supported by the Free Software Foundation. All the Gn software is under their umbrella such as the Gnome interface for Linux.

On the desktop there’s always good ol’ OpenOffice.

On the server side, the newly release Omeka digital projects software is showing real promise. I use Textpattern for our library’s website.

]]> Comment on What’s your favorite open source product? by Chris http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2305 Chris Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:13:18 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2305 Its free software (its a GNU project) you won't see the words open source as thats not a term free software proponents use. " Where do I get it? Most (if not all) Linux distributions will support GIMP through their package management systems and may even come with GIMP preinstalled. You can follow links to Linux and UNIX, Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X for the latest binaries. Of course, this is free software so the source code is available to, along with instruction on how to compile it." http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html <-- for what is meant by free software. Its licensed under the GPL Its free software (its a GNU project) you won’t see the words open source as thats not a term free software proponents use.

” Where do I get it?

Most (if not all) Linux distributions will support GIMP through their package management systems and may even come with GIMP preinstalled. You can follow links to Linux and UNIX, Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X for the latest binaries. Of course, this is free software so the source code is available to, along with instruction on how to compile it.”

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html <– for what is meant by free software.

Its licensed under the GPL

]]> Comment on What’s your favorite open source product? by Jason Puckett http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2303 Jason Puckett Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:31:05 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2303 Wow, Glen has my spectrum pretty well covered. Nicole, GIMP offers source code on its download page: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ Wow, Glen has my spectrum pretty well covered.

Nicole, GIMP offers source code on its download page: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

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