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The Openz Letter
The list of Co-Signers.
Links to media coverage.

NZ Open Source Sites

NZ Open Source Society: Join us!!
Open Source Technology Centre: an open source "knowledge sharing community."
DevCentre.org: open source news in NZ
Linuxguide.co.nz: a Christchurch-focused open source guide.

NZ Linux Users' Groups

NZ Computing Media

PC World NZ: an IDG publication
IDGNet NZ: another IDG publication
Computerworld NZ: computing news with a NZ focus (also IDG)
Computer-NZ: Christchurch's own

Open Standards

The World Wide Web Consortium (aka W3C)
Linux Standards Base: creating a universal open Linux standard

Open Source References

OpenSource.org: for the official definition
GNU: Gnu's Not Unix...
Free Software Foundation
Hacker's Dictionary: absolutely essential
Linux Timeline: how a lot stuff started.

General Computing News

Community Sites

SourceForge: where open source projects find a home!
Linux Today: a ever-changing compendium of open source related stories. Comments galore, some of interest.
Slashdot: news for nerds, stuff that matters. For better or worse, the real pulse of the open source community
freshmeat.net: indispensible open source software archive

Open Source in Business

IT-Director.com

Open Source in Government

Letter to a well-known US-based corporation by the very eloquent Peruvian congressman, Dr Edgar Villanueva. A response to this letter. Here is an interview with him as well.
Linux in Government by Sam Williams, author of Free as in Freedom.

Open Source in Schools

CanOpenER - Canadian Open Source Education and Research

Open Source Software

SQL-Ledger - web-based accounting system
PHP: PHP Manual

Useful FTP Sites

Linux Distributors

Linux Mandrake: general purpose Linux on the cutting edge (French)
Debian GNU/Linux: stable and pure (Global)
Red Hat Linux: reaching into the enterprise (American)
SuSE Linux: focusing on the German market (German)
Slackware Linux: the one that started it all for many of us (American)
Gentoo Linux: slick new "compile as needed" distribution (Global)

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