Ways to use free, open-source, cloud, and other cheap and easy software in the humanities

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Quantum GIS http://www.qgis.org

"Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities. "Quantum GIS provides a continously growing number of capabilities provided by core functions and plugins. You can visualize, manage, edit, analyse data, and compose printable maps." -QGIS.org

Installation: http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Download Manual: http://www.qgis.org/en/documentation/manuals.html Gentle Introduction Videos: http://linfiniti.com/dla/ Other Learning Materials: http://www.qgis. org/wiki/Users_Corner#How_to_use_QGIS Screenshots from QGIS.org: political map (top); OpenStreetMap and raster topography (bottom) Twitter or other handle: EvolvedTech (Josh)

Linux Made Easy

If you need a Windows-like interface and a desktop that does all the collaborative activities you're addicted to, but you have to run your project on a tight budget or use older machines, it might be time to move to Linux. Or just do it to be frakkin' cool. Ubuntu: the current gorilla of GUI Linux, made to be user-friendly for newbies Linux Mint: a multimedia-focused, faster Ubuntu derivative JoliCloud: cloud based desktop, app based, almost more like an Android smartphone on your computer Fedora: professional desktop installation designed to be highly functional immediately Peppermint: cloud heavy installation, but more like a computer than a smartphone Puppy: very small and works well on older systems with limited resources

Build Your Own USB Pen Drive & Take Linux Anywhere

1. Choose your distribution of Linux and download the *.iso image

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

2. Get a simple pen-drive maker

http://www.pendrivelinux.com

3. Profit! Linux installed on a USB drive can be booted live on any machine where you can access the boot menu. Data saved and applications installed to USB are persistent. Your "workstation" is machine independent. Also a great way to try Linux without affecting your hard drive.

Twitter or other handle: EvolvedTech (Josh)

FOSS Statistics - The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)

R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing. http://cran.rproject.org/ A great, free and open source alternative to SPSS and other statistics packages, R is a powerful tool for conducting powerful statistical analysis

Getting Started - R Resources

Intro to R http://cran.r-project. org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#The-Renvironment R by example http://www.mayin. org/ajayshah/KB/R/index.html R reference sheet of basic commands http://cran.za.r-project. org/doc/contrib/refcard.pdf Alternate UI for the R environment RStudio http://www.rstudio.org/ RCommander http://www. rcommander.com/ R Bloggers http://www.r-bloggers. com/, an aggregated site of people online doing amazing things with R!

@adamkriesber

CHEERS FROM ANN ARBOR

How to get FOSS programmers to listen to you.

Report bugs. Don't expect others to report them. They like it when you report bugs. Seriously! Write good bug reports. Make fixing your bug the lowest hurdle possible. explicitly explain how to reproduce your bug. Tell them your browser (if web-based) and Operating system. Err on telling more than less. Be nice! FOSS Programmers like to know that you use it. They like your ideas for feature suggestions too. Be explicit with request Picture worth 1000 words Get on lists and get people to vote (either with voting tools, public conversations, and/or comments).

Power, People, and Persuasion

Knowing the leadership structure of the software community can help you "hack" the community. Main structures: Constitution (Debian) Consortium (LON-CAPA, Sakai, Kuali(?)) Benevolent Dictator (Moodle) Management through tool mediation Shameless plug - if anyone finds the "Power, People, and Persuasion" in F/OSS communities, contact felicia@msu.edu. Also, please don't steal my title :-) Thanks!

FOSS in libraryland
Evergreen (library catalogue) Syrup (course mangement system) jamun (discovery layer) LibX : (library toolbar) the web is made of people code4lib

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KOMODO EDIT
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit
Open source code editor

http://community.activestate.com/komodo

@adamkriesberg

Tesseract-OCR
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ @ruebot

#!/bin/bash for f in $( ls ); do echo "Attempting to OCR $f" /usr/local/bin/tesseract "$f" ../ocr/"$f" -l eng done

KeePass / KeepPassX & SpiderOak

Open Source Password Management http://keepass.info/ http://www.keepassx.org/ Secure multiplatform file synchronization https://spideroak.com/ For additional security TrueCrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org/
(can be stored in a synced environment)

"Save the planet, Save the phone" http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

Help with CyanogenMod and other ROMs can be found at xda developers: http://forum.xdadevelopers.com/index.php

OpenPaths
openpaths.cc - free, but not open source, apps for mobile phones. What it 'opens' is your location data, for you. From their FAQ: "OpenPaths is a secure data locker for personal location information. Using our mobile apps you can track your location, visualize where you've been, and upload your data to the OpenPaths website." Use their visualization tools, or export as JSON, CSV, or KML Ask users to open their data to you for research purposes

TAMS Analyzer - qualitative analysis

Useful for thematic coding Mac only (sorry) Intakes text (txt, rtf), image (jpg+), pdf MySQL, allows multiple users Download: http://tamsys.sourceforge.net/ (by Matt Weinstein) (also good documentation there) Useful guide / intros: Learn basics (by Tabitha Hart) Lots of other documentation Happy to discuss what I'm doing with it... @jesseajohnston

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

http://www.gimp.org/

The Photoshop alternative for Open Source lovers (now available on non-Linux OS)

@adamkriesberg

foss4lib.org

Get your red hot FOSS (and not...) software

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FOSS projects in use in libraries

h/t @ruebot