Open Source

The following is a list of open source software (OSS) used in Michigan libraries, in order by the name of the software, the URL, a brief description, and libraries currently using the software. Please be sure you are listing OSS and not Freeware. For a good discussion of Open Source, Freeware, and Shareware, see Open Source Strategies' Blog

• Apache http://www.apache.org/ open source software projects
  • Andrews University
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • Branch District Library
  • Canton Public Library
  • Eastern Michigan University
  • MCLS
  • Univ. of Detroit Mercy
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA
  • Willard Library

• Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ audiotrack mixing
  • Branch District Library
  • Canton Public Library
  • Center for Forensic Psychiatry
  • MCLS
  • Univ. of Detroit Mercy

• Belarc Advisor http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html PC audit/profile
  • Tamarack District Library

• BIND http://www.isc.org/software/bind DNS
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • MCLS
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• CakePHP http://www.cakephp.org/ rapid development framework for PHP
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• Camstudio http://camstudio.org/ screencasting
  • MCLS

• CDBurnerXP http://cdburnerxp.se/ free application to burn CDs and DVDs
  • Alcona County Library
  • Public Libraries of Saginaw
  • Willard Library

• CDex http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/ CD** Ripper
  • Branch District Library

• Celtx http://celtx.com/ storyboarding
  • MCLS

• CensorNet http://opensource.censornet.com/ filtering
  • Alcona County Library
  • Willard Library

• CentOS http://www.centos.org/ Free clone of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution
  • MCLS
  • Willard Library

• Childsplay http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/docs** manifesto.php educational games for children
  • Branch District Library

• CiviCRM http://civicrm.org/ online donations and other registration payments
  • Jackson District Library

• Clam AntiVirus http://www.clamav.net/ anti** virus toolkit for UNIX
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • Branch District Library
  • MCLS
  • Willard Library

• Clonezilla http://clonezilla.org/ backup and recovery
  • Public Libraries of Saginaw

• Cosign http://weblogin.org secure single sign** on web authentication system
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• CVS http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/ version control system
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• Cybera http://sourceforge.net/projects/cybera/ computer time management
  • Tamarack District Library

• Dansguardian http://dansguardian.org content filtering
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • Branch District Library
  • Cass District Library
  • Willard Library

• DBAN http://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/ data wiping of hard disks
  • Alcona County Library

• DIA http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ a diagram drawing tool (like Visio)
  • MCLS

• Digsby http://wiki.digsby.com/doku.php?id=Wiki+Home Instant messaging client that allows logging into multiple platforms and email
  • Hackley Public Library

• DoPDF http://www.dopdf.com/ save files as PDFs
  • Tamarack District Library

• Drupal http://drupal.org/
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • Canton Public Library
  • Eastern Michigan University
  • Jackson District Library
  • MLA
  • Willard Library

• DScaler5 http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/dscaler5.htm DVD decoding on Windows computers
  • Branch District Library

• DSpace http://www.dspace.org/ accessing, managing, preserving scholary works
  • Eastern Michigan University
  • Univ. of Detroit Mercy
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• Edubuntu http://www.edubuntu.org/
  • Cass District Library
  • Walled Lake City Library
  • Willard Library

• Ejabberd http://www.ejabberd.im/ instant messaging server
  • Branch District Library

• Eprints http://www.eprints.org/software/ institutional repository
  • Andrews University

• Eraser http://www.heidi.ie/node/6 cleans files off drives
  • Tamarack District Library

• Evergreen http://open-ils.org/ integrated library system
  • Barryton Public Library
  • Branch District Library
  • Darcy Library of Beulah
  • Grand Rapids Public Library
  • Laingsburg Public Library
  • Niles District Library
  • Oscoda County Library
  • Traverse Area District Library

• Feed2JS http://feed2js.org/ RSS feeds
  • Univ of Michigan-AA

• Filezilla http://filezilla-project.org/ remote server backup
  • Walled Lake District Library

• Frozen Bubble http://www.frozen-bubble.org/ penguin game
  • Branch District Library

• GCompris http://gcompris.net/ education software
  • Branch District Library

• GiMP http://www.gimp.org/ photo editing
  • Branch District Library
  • MCLS
  • Northville District Library
  • Willard Library

• git http://git-scm.com/ fast version control system
  • Canton Public Library

• hMail server http://www.hmailserver.com/ email server
  • Cass District Library

• ImageBurn http://www.imgburn.com/ burning application
  • Alcona County Library

• Irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/ photo editing
  • Northville District Library

• Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/ vector graphics editor
  • Branch District Library
  • MCLS

• Internet Station Management (ISM) from OSG
  • Grant Area District Library

• IP Cop http://www.ipcop.org/ Linux firewall
  • Alcona County Library

• Java http://www.java.com/en/
  • Branch District Library

• Joomla http://www.joomla.org/ web page
  • Alcona County Library
  • Center for Forensic Psychiatry
  • Jordan Valley District Library
  • Willard Library

• jquery http://jquery.com JavaScript library
  • Canton Public Library
  • Univ of Michigan-AA

• Koha http://koha.almaschools.net integrated library system
  • Alma Public Schools

• Kompozer http://www.kompozer.net/ web authoring system
  • Branch District Library

• LimeSurvey http://www.limesurvey.org/ survey application written in PHP, using MySQL
  • MCLS

• Linux http://www.linux.org/ operating system
  • Andrews University
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • Cass District Library
  • MCLS
  • Univ. of Detroit Mercy
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA
  • Willard Library

• Lucene http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/ text search engine library
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• MagicDisk http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm virtual CD-ROM software
  • Alcona County Library

• Moodle http://moodle.org/ distance education
  • Albion College
  • Oakland University

• Movable Type http://www.movabletype.org/ blogs
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• Mozilla Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ web browser
  • Andrews University
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • Branch District Library
  • Eastern Michigan University
  • Hackley Public Library
  • MCLS
  • Northville District Library
  • Tamarack District Library
  • Univ. of Detroit Mercy
  • Willard Library

• Mozilla Sunbird and Lightning http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/ calendar software
  • Alcona County Library

• Mozilla Thunderbird http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ email client
  • Alcona County Library
  • Andrews University
  • Branch District Library
  • Grand Rapids Public Library

• MySQL http://www.mysql.com/ open source database
  • Andrews University
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • Branch District Library
  • Canton Public Library
  • Eastern Michigan University
  • MCLS
  • Northville District Library (as part of their custom History Index server: history.northville.lib.mi.us)
  • Univ. of Detroit Mercy
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA
  • Willard Library

• Notepad2 http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html text editor
  • Branch District Library

• Omeka http://omeka.org/ digital repository
  • Branch District Library

• Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/ word processing
  • Alcona County Library
  • Andrews University
  • Branch District Library
  • Cass District Library
  • Cheboygan Area Public Library
  • Grand Rapids Public Library
  • Lakeland Library Cooperative
  • MCLS
  • Northville District Library
  • Tamarack District Library

• OpenSSH http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/ server and client utilities
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • Branch District Library
  • MCLS
  • Willard Library

• OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • MCLS
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• Paint.net http://www.getpaint.net/ photo-editing
  • Alcona County Library
  • Branch District Library
  • Tamarack District Library

• PDFCreator http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ creates PDFs from any Windows program
  • Branch District Library
  • Willard Library

• PDF Split and Merge http://www.pdfsam.org/ tool to split and merge PDFs
  • Branch District Library

• Perl http://www.perl.org/ cross-platform programming language
  • Andrews University
  • MCLS
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• pfSense http://www.pfsense.com/ firewall and router
  • Alcona County Library
  • Willard Library

• PHP http://www.php.net/ scripting language for web development
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • Canton Public Library
  • Eastern Michigan University
  • MCLS
  • Univ. of Detroit Mercy
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA
  • Willard Library

• PHPESP http://phpesp.sourceforge.net/ surveys
  • Univ. of Michigan– AA

• Picasa http://picasa.google.com/ photo storing, indexing, editing
  • Tamarack District Library

• Pidgin http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin instant messaging application
  • Branch District Library

• PMWiki http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Installation wiki
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• Postgres http://www.postgresql.org/ open source database
  • Branch District Library
  • Eastern Michigan University
  • MCLS
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• Prototype http://www.prototypejs.org/ JavaScript framework
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• PublicIP http://www.publicip.net/ wireless connectivity
  • Cass District Library
  • Willard Library

• PuTTY http://sourceforge.net/projects/s2putty/ SSH client
  • Alcona County Library
  • Andrews University
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • MCLS
  • Willard Library

• Request Tracker http://bestpractical.com/rt/ helpdesk system
  • MCLS

• Ruby http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ programming language
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• Samba http://us3.samba.org/samba/ file and print services
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • Branch District Library
  • MCLS
  • Willard Library

• Shoreline Firewall http://www.shorewall.net/ tool for configuring Netfilter
  • Branch District Library

• Smarty Template http://www.smarty.net/resources.php?category=2 PHP web CMS
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• Solr http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ open source enterprise search server
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• SpyBot http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html security tools for cleaning up computers
  • MCLS
  • Tamarack District Library

• Squid-cache http://www.squid-cache.org/ cache proxy
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • Branch District Library
  • Cass District Library
  • Willard Library

• SquidGuard http://www.squidguard.org/ internet control and filtering
  • Lapeer District Library
  • Willard Library

• Squirrelmail http://www.squirrelmail.org/ webmail solution
  • Andrews University
  • Cass District Library

• Subversion http://subversion.tigris.org/ revision control system
  • Ann Arbor District Library
  • MCLS
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA

• Tux Paint http://www.tuxpaint.org/ drawing software
  • Branch District Library
  • Public Libraries of Saginaw

• Tux Typing http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/ educational typing tutor
  • Public Libraries of Saginaw

• Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/ on Linux servers (includes a variety of OS applications: Apache, PHP, MySql, FreeRadius, Chillispot, CakePHP, fpdf, Swift mailer, etc.)
  • Cass District Library
  • Cheboygan Area Public Library
  • Public Libraries of Saginaw
  • Willard Library

• UltraVNC http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultravnc/ remote desktop support software
  • Alcona County Library
  • MCLS
  • Willard Library

• VLC Media Play http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ media player and streaming server
  • Branch District Library
  • Willard Library

• Wink http://oss.wink.com/ screen recorder
  • Alcona County Library

• WinSCP http://winscp.net/eng/index.php SCP/SFTP/FTP client for Windows
  • Branch District Library
  • MCLS
  • Willard Library

• WordPress http://wordpress.org/ blogs
  • Lapeer District Library
  • MCLS
  • Univ. of Detroit Mercy

• xubuntu http://www.xubuntu.org/ operating system
  • Cass District Library

• Zebra http://www.zebra.org/ routing software
  • Univ. of Michigan-AA