Free Software

BigBluebotton, a professional solution for teaching remote students online. BigBlueButton provides real-time sharing of audio, video, slides, chat, and screen. Students are engaged through sharing of emoji icons, polling, and breakout rooms.

Synchronous learning tools should feel like part of your management system (LMS). Instructure, Schoology, Jenzabar, and D2L all ship their LMS with a native integration for BigBlueButton. Moodle and Sakai have plugins for deep integration. And BigBlueButton is learning tools interoperability (LTI) 1.0 compliant for widest adoption.

The BigBlueButton developer community has seen great success over the years with a growing mailing list of over 2,500 members and a Github repository that has been forked by other developers over 3,200 times.

Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.

Jitsi started life as a way to talk to people over the internet using audio and video. Over the course of a decade, though, it’s become so much more.
https://meet.jit.si/

Epicyon is an AGPL licensed ActivityPub protocol compliant federated social network server suitable for hosting a small number of accounts on low power systems requiring minimal maintenance, such as single board computers. It's the ActivityPub equivalent of an email server, storing posts as human readable JSON on file, rather than in a database. It also uses only a small amount of RAM.

An Internet of People, Not Corporate Agendas

Epicyon is written in Python with a HTML+CSS web interface and uses no javascript which makes display in a web browser very lightweight. It can run as a Progressive Web App on mobile. Just say "no" to boring social media sites packed with generic adverts and zombified corporate influencers.
https://libreserver.org/epicyon

Mastodon isn’t a single website like Twitter or Facebook, it's a network of thousands of communities operated by different organizations and individuals that provide a seamless social media experience.

Social networking, back in your hands

Follow friends and discover new ones among more than 4.4M people. Publish anything you want: links, pictures, text, video. All on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free.
https://joinmastodon.org

Mobilizon is an online tool to help manage your events, your profiles and your groups..

Gather ⋅ Organize ⋅ Mobilize

On Mobilizon, you can create a detailed page for your event, publish and share it. You can also search for events by keyword, place or date, participate in events (even without an account) and add them to your agenda.

Saving Your Attention

Mobilizon is not a social media, nor a hobby: it is a tool. You won’t find features like subscriptions counters, thumbs ups or info walls with infinite scrolling.

Mobilizon’s design aims to free your attention from the mechanisms of self-staging. This allows you to stay focused on what really matters: managing your events, your groups, your mobilization.
https://joinmobilizon.org/en

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages.

Bluefish is a multi-platform application that runs on most desktop operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, Windows, OpenBSD and Solaris.

This website is coded with Bluefish.
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html

Plausible Analytics is free software.

Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.
Plausible is a lightweight and open-source website analytics tool. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR.

Made and hosted in the EU.
https://plausible.io

Libreboot it is free software.
It software for the bios of your computer.

Derives from Coreboot.
Mantained by Leah Rowe.
https://libreboot.org

Coreboot it's a firmware.
It is a software for the bios of your computer.

It is where Libreboot come from.
You can find it here:
https://www.coreboot.org/

Trisquel GNU/Linux is a fully free operating system for home users, small enterprises and educational centers.
It is Ubuntu deblobbed.

Made with love and endorsed by the FSF.org.

Trisquel GNU/Linux is a 100% free operating system. It comes with a complete selection of programs that can be easily extended using a graphical installer. There are several editions available, including the "mini" edition for netbooks and old computers and the network based installer for custom and server installations.

You can find it here:
https://trisquel.info/

Replicant is a fully free Android distribution running on several devices, a free software mobile operating system putting the emphasis on freedom and privacy/security.
It is Android liberated.

Made with respect and endorsed by the FSF.org.

It comes with F-Droid pre installed.
You can find it here:
https:www.replicant.us

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.
Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions and used by millions of people.
Some of the reasons for the success of Linux Mint are:

• It works out of the box, with full multimedia support and is extremely easy to use.
• It's both free of cost and open source.
• It's community-driven. Users are encouraged to send feedback to the project so that their ideas can be used to improve Linux Mint.
• Based on Debian and Ubuntu, it provides about 30,000 packages and one of the best software managers.
• It's safe and reliable. Thanks to a conservative approach to software updates, a unique Update Manager and the robustness of its Linux architecture, Linux Mint requires very little maintenance (no regressions, no antivirus, no anti-spyware...etc).

You can find it here:
Linux Mint

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and Chrome OS. It features an OpenGL-accelerated canvas, colour management support, an advanced brush engine, non-destructive layers and masks, group-based layer management, vector artwork support and switchable customisation profiles. It is written in C++ using Qt.
From 2004 to 2009, Krita was strongly focusing on being a generic image manipulation/painting application in the style of Photoshop or GIMP. Since 2009, the focus is squarely on painting: the Krita community aims to make Krita the best painting application for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists.
Some of the things you can create with Krita are:

• Concept art
• Texture and matte painters
• illustrations and comics

You can download krita here:
Krita

Whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imagery, Inkscape is for you!

• Flexible drawing tools
• Broad file format compatibility
• Powerful text tool
• Bezier and spiro curves

You can find Inkscape here:
Inkscape

FreeCAD is free software!
Freedom to build what you want

FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters.

Create 3D from 2D & back
FreeCAD allows you to sketch geometry constrained 2D shapes and use them as a base to build other objects. It contains many components to adjust dimensions or extract design details from 3D models to create high quality production ready drawings. You can download FreeCAD here:
FreeCAD

OpenSCAD is the programmers solid 3D parametric CAD modeller.

OpenSCAD is a free software application for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It is a script-only based modeller that uses its own description language; parts can be previewed, but cannot be interactively selected or modified by mouse in the 3D view.

OpenSCAD is software for creating solid 3D CAD objects.
It is free software and available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows and Mac OS X.

You can download OpenSCAD here:
OpenSCAD download

Blender Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality and computer games.

Blender's features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, raster graphics editing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animating, match moving, rendering, motion graphics, video editing, and compositing.

You can download Blender here:
Blender download

LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice).

LibreOffice is one of the friendliest and fastest-growing projects in the free and open source software world.

LibreOffice is about more than software. It’s about people, culture, creation, sharing and collaboration.

Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity.

You can download LibreOffice here:
LibreOffice download

LibreCAD is free software!

LibreCAD is a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. Support and documentation are free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.

LibreCAD is a feature-packed and mature 2D-CAD application with some really great advantages:
-No worries about trials, subscriptions, license costs or annual fees.
-Developed by an experienced team and supported by an awesome community, LibreCAD is also free to hack and copy.
-It's available in over 30 languages with cross-platform support for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

You can download LibreCAD here:
LibreCAD download

GNU Health is a free/libre health and hospital information system with strong focus on public health and social medicine. Its functionality includes management of electronic health records and laboratory information management system.

It is designed to be multi-platform, supporting GNU/Linux distributions and FreeBSD on the server side. It uses PostgreSQL as its database engine. It is written in Python and uses the Tryton framework as one of its components.

GNU Health has been adopted by the United Nations University. In 2011, it became a GNU official package. It was awarded Best Project of Social Benefit from the Free Software Foundation at LibrePlanet 2012, at University of Massachusetts Boston.

GNU Health is a project of GNU Solidario, a non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) that works in the areas of health and education with free software.

You visit the project page of GNU Health here:
https://gnuhealth.org

TastyIgniter is a powerful, yet easy to use, restaurant online ordering, reservation and management system that aims to make life enjoyable for developers and restaurateurs.

TastyIgniter is a restaurant online ordering system that also allows the users to make reservations online.

It is a gratis, free software, self-hosted system based on Laravel PHP Framework, that aims to provide a valuable experience to the end-user and works as an effective restaurant management platform.

You visit the project page of TastyIgniter here:
https://tastyigniter.com

Rockbox is a free replacement firmware for digital music players. It runs on a wide range of players:

Rockbox runs well on these players, has installation instructions, and is supported by the installer:

-Apple: iPod 1g through 6g (Classic), iPod Mini, iPod Nano 1g, iPod Nano 2g
-Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio
-Cowon: iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5, M5L, M3 and M3L
-Creative: Zen Mozaic, Zen X-Fi, Zen X-Fi 3 and Zen X-Fi Style
-iriver: iHP100 series, H100 series, H300 series and H10 series
-MPIO: HD300
-Olympus: M:Robe 100
-Packard Bell: Vibe 500
-Philips: GoGear SA9200, GoGear HDD16x0 and HDD63x0
-Samsung: YH-820, YH-920 and YH-925
-SanDisk: Sansa c200, e200 and e200R series, Fuze and Fuze+, Clip, Clip+ and Clip Zip
-Toshiba: Gigabeat X and F series
-xDuoo: X3

You visit the project page of Rockbox here:
https://www.rockbox.org

AsteroidOS: hack your wrist.

AsteroidOS is an free softwareoperating system for smartwatches.

At AsteroidsOS they believe that when it comes to wearable devices, users should have full control over their machines and data. AsteroidOS has been created from the ground-up with modularity and freedom in mind. For this reason, it is a free and open-source project.

AsteroidOS unleashes the potential of your watch with up to 48 hours of autonomy and a set of apps including everything you need on a smartwatch: an agenda, an alarm clock, a calculator, a music controller, settings, a stopwatch, a timer and a weather forecast app.

You visit the project page of AsteroidOS here:
https://asteroidos.org