[Ubuntu-PH] Open Source for hard Times

["Yosif ali" Roque Morales]

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Friend of the blog Erica Zeidenberg, who represents the good folks at
Palamida <http://www.palamida.com/>, has been flogging an “open source job
hunters toolkit,” filled with open source programs you can use, free, in
your job hunt.

(This classic photo from the last Great Depression was done for the WPA by
John E. Allen Inc. <http://newdeal.feri.org/library/ab32.htm>)

Of course, if there are no jobs you can’t hunt anywhere. But maybe if you
get yourself a used Netbook and find an old stick memory sitting around, you
can load these offerings as you head out for the real open road:

1. OpenGoo <http://opengoo.org/>is the open source Web office that lets you
collaborate with your fellow jobless and organize that people’s revolution
we have all been waiting for. Compare it to the student version of Microsoft
Office.

2. Scribus <http://www.scribus.net/> is the open source desktop publishing
program for Linux that will help you get out those flyers telling other
homeless people where the demonstration is. Compare it to Adobe Illustrator.

3. TextPattern <http://textpattern.com/> is a flexible content management
system that also helps you publish standards-compliant Web pages that print
nicely. The revolution deserves a good Web site.

4. GIMP <http://www.gimp.org/>, the GNU Image Manipulation System, is great
for resizing or extracting bits from pictures like the one above. I use it
all the time. You can use it to virtually link the President to the workers’
enemy of the moment. Compare it to Adobe Photoshop.

5. Kino <http://www.kinodv.org/>is a cool video editor for Linux. You can
use it for that revolutionary film you have been planning, “Triumph of the
Geeky.” You can compare it to Final Cut Pro.

6. Pidgin <http://www.pidgin.im/>is the universal chat client that gets you
over all those proprietary walls erected by “the man” so you can communicate
between cells. It even supports custom smileys, so if you want to add a Che
Guevara beard to yours go right ahead.

7. Mozilla Thunderbird <http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/>is the
e-mail client I use here at ZDNet Open Source. It’s a good replacement for
Microsoft Outlook Express, plus you can add-in features like a calendar so
you won’t be late for the revolution.

8. KPresenter <http://www.koffice.org/kpresenter/> is the presentation piece
of the KOffice suite. This will let you demo your revolution so it won’t be
confused with those of splitters like the Judean Peoples’ Front or People’s
Front of Judea <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE>. That would be
very embarrassing.

9. Amarok <http://amarok.kde.org/> is an open source music player, an iTunes
replacement, which will be one of the 15 projects honored with a booth at
CeBIT next month. If you can’t dance to the revolution what is the point?

Anyway, good luck, and we’ll see you on the road. Unless President Obama can
pull off a real economic recovery. In which case you’re all invited back to
work.

Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for 30 years, a tech
freelancer since 1983. See his full
profile<http://blogs.zdnet.com/bio.php#blankenhorn>and
disclosure <http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?page_id=1037> of his
industry affiliations.


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