Showing posts with label free software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free software. Show all posts

Monday, September 10, 2007

Portable apps

The PortableApps.com Suite™ looks good >>>. It is "a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, ... all preconfigured to work portably".

It has several versions, and can be installed to portables devices (such as USB/flash drives):
* Base: 0.7MB (download), 1MB (installed)
* Lite: 30.4MB (download), ~105MB (installed)
* Standard: 89.5MB (download), ~260MB (installed)

And it is all under Free / Open Source (Mozilla apps: MPL, Others: GPL) Licenses.

We'll post a review here when we've played with it a bit.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

IMIA OSWG meeting at medinfo2007

The 2007 business meeting of the IMIA Open Source Working Group ( >>>) will take place as follows:

Sunday, 19 August 2007, from 5:30 - 7:30pm

Venue: Room P3, Brisbane Convention Centre, Australia
(in conjunction with medinfo2007)

Agenda to be advised later.

Apologies to colleagues who won't be at medinfo2007.

All queries to imia.oswg[at]gmail.com

Sixth LinuxMedNews Award nominations open

As reported by Ignacio Valdes on Linux Medical News (www.linuxmednews.com/1185396012/index_html), nominations are officially open for the 6th annual Linux Medical News Freedom Award. Deadline for nominations is August 24th, 2007 and the Award will be presented at the November 10th-14th AMIA Fall conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Deadline for entries is August 24th, 2007. [This is NOT an officially sponsored award or event of AMIA.]

This award is co-sponsored by the IMIA Open Source Working Group. This award is intended to honor the individual or project who has accomplished the most towards the goal of improving medical education and practice through free/open source medical software. The award winner is chosen by a panel of judges.

Full details are on Linux Medical News.

Friday, June 08, 2007

Free software news sources

FSDaily (www.fsdaily.com) is a news hub entirely dedicated to free and open source software, where users can vote stories up and down. It uses Pligg (www.pligg.com) - so, is like Digg, but just for free software.

This new resource is developed by Free Software Magazine, an online magazine dedicated to the promotion of free software as a whole - see www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

Their pages also have a useful 'beginner’s guide to understanding free software' >>>