Wish list

This is a list of useful software services that would be well-served with Open Service implementations. Some may also be candidates free software P2P implementation.

Internet portal

 * Web Search (Google, Yahoo, Ask, Live)
 * AboutUs.org is creating a guide to websites
 * YaCy is a P2P search engine written in Java (under GPLv2+). Kind of usable already.
 * Seeks is a P2P social websearch proxy (meta-search), letting its users vote on the results.
 * Homepage (iGoogle, Pageflakes, Netvibes)
 * Posh?
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 * Maps (Google Maps, Yahoo Maps.)
 * OpenStreetMap looks good, but needs more data about businesses, routing
 * switch2osm.org explains how to make the switch to OpenStreetMap – from first principles to technical how-tos.
 * OpenRouteService is a good start, but needs improvement
 * Web developers, designers portal (w3schools)
 * autonomo.us

Office

 * Office suite/collaboration (Google Docs)
 * Zimbra Collaboration Suite
 * PHPGroupware
 * Feng Office (formerly OpenGoo)
 * Crabgrass group and network organizing, tailored to meet the needs of a global activist movement
 * Etherpad is a web-based word processor that allows write text really real-time. (warning it recomends java sun jdk, pending test with openjdk)
 * lighter version of etherpad (javascript_
 * Calendaring (cf. 30boxes.net, Google calendars, ScheduleWorld.com)
 * Zimbra Collaboration Suite
 * PHPGroupware
 * Webcalendar
 * Joyent Connector (also addressbook, email, etc.)
 * Funambol AGPL licensed solution for mobile email, calendar, ToDo tasks, contact and adressbook
 * Horde groupware suite using Kronolith which is a horde module.
 * jqcaldav pure js caldav client, new but awesome
 * Scheduling (Doodle)
 * Addressbook
 * iaddressbook.org
 * Horde groupware suite using Turba which is a horde module.
 * Email (GMail, Yahoo mail, Microsoft Live mail)
 * roundcube.net
 * Mailpile
 * squirrelmail
 * AGPLMail
 * Horde groupware suite using Imp, Dimp and Mimp which are horde modules, doing basic webmail, dynamic webmail and mobile webmail.


 * Mailing list / forum / newsgroup / archive / search (Yahoo/Google (YaGoo?) Groups, nabble.com, MarkMail (for searching))
 * Mailman
 * Gmane handles some aspects, but not posting from the web
 * Project Management (Basecamp)
 * Fides
 * Document sharing (Scribd, Slideshare)
 * MediaWiki eg using https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PdfHandler
 * Web page design (Google page creator)
 * Dobrado is AGPLv3
 * Banking and financial (Wesabe)
 * WebSteuer (free software for the German electronic tax return)
 * Open Source Hardware Bank (http://antipastohw.blogspot.com/2009/03/introducing-open-source-hardware.html);
 * "Open source"? scratch that! What about a freedom/copyleft bank? Freedom game developing folks at freegamedev.net are also looking at financing solutions.
 * File sharing / synchronization (DropBox, drop.io, Ubuntu One)
 * iFolder?
 * OwnCloud (syncs calendar, files, contacts... and the server can be installed locally. Supposedly AGPLv3, but needs to be second-checked)
 * SparkleShare
 * Tahoe LAFS?
 * ZendTo (simple file transfert solution, no syncronization)
 * a free software equivalent of wuala (peer to peer storage) would be ideal.

Social

 * Forums (we need to find where free software forums fail to meet the needs of the users, see ubuntuforums.org)
 * phpBB,
 * Review, Feedback, Polls (pollmonkey.com, Google Forms)
 * LimeSurvey
 * Email list (Google Groups, Yahoo Groups)
 * FreeLists
 * Mailman
 * Social bookmarks (del.icio.us and friends)
 * sabros.us
 * Scuttle
 * Semantic Scuttle (based on Scuttle)
 * Shaarli - single user, no-database delicio.us clone
 * Pressmark
 * Ma.gnolia 2
 * ShiftSpace a social markup/annotation tool
 * Social news (digg.com, reddit.com, mixx.com)
 * Reddit software is Free, could be the beginning of a quick win
 * Menéame.net
 * Pligg awfully needs better antispam filters
 * Drigg
 * Mixx.com is proprietary, but their content is Public Domain, we could/should make a plugin to import content from them
 * Event calendaring (Upcoming, Eventful)
 * Social networking (Facebook, MySpace)
 * Movim - AGPLv3 - Movim aim to be an XMPP client written in PHP with lot of social networking features. A social network using XMPP place the interoperability on it center, and make sure that it could be easy to speak between pc and smartphones because XMPP connexion is PHP side.
 * Dolphin - Creative Commons Public License
 * PHPizabi - Non-free EULA forbids redistribution
 * Elgg - GPLv2
 * Mugshot
 * AroundMe - GPLv3
 * DiSo
 * Lovd By Less - uses Ruby on Rails, MIT license
 * Cloud27.com - uses Django, - MIT License
 * crabgrass from riseup.net - AGPL - Crabgrass is a software libre web application designed for social networking, group collaboration and network organizing. Our goal is to create communication tools that are tailored specifically to meet the needs of bottom up grassroots organizing. By social networking, we mean the ability of users to get to know one another through their online contributions and presence. By group collaboration, we mean the ability of small groups to get things done, such as share files, track tasks and projects, make decisions and build repositories of shared knowledge. By network organizing, we mean the ability of multiple groups to work together on projects in a democratic manner.
 * Friendica Project - decentralized social network -uses php/mysql - profile/wall/status, public and private forums and community pages, encrypted private messages, calendars, photo galleries, connectivity with other networks (including StatusNet, Diaspora, Twitter, etc) - works on low-cost shared and vps hosts - Open Source/Libre
 * Buddypress
 * Photos (Flickr)
 * Gallery
 * Photospace (not maintained?)
 * Wordpress is slowly-but-surely adding this functionality
 * GNU MediaGoblin
 * Horde groupware suite using Ansel which is a horde module.
 * Piwigo
 * 3D model library (Google SketchUp 3D Warehouse, Google O3D API)
 * Mozilla Canvas 3D,
 * web KML viewer
 * Video (youtube, vimeo)
 * GNU MediaGoblin
 * Videobin
 * Audio (soundcloud, myspace)
 * GNU MediaGoblin
 * Virtual environment (SecondLife, Lively)
 * OpenCroquet
 * OpenSim? Mono, C# dependent: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Build_Instructions
 * Cube 2/Sauerbraten ?
 * Social music attention (last.fm, ulike.net)
 * Libre.fm
 * Social film attention (netflix, criticker.com)
 * Filmaster.com (developer's portal at: Filmaster.org)
 * Invitations (Evite)
 * Tasks (Remember the Milk, Astrid)
 * Fides
 * Feed aggregator (Bloglines, Google Reader)
 * NewsBlur
 * Gregarius
 * Tiny Tiny RSS
 * Lilina
 * Yocto Reader
 * OpenWebReader
 * Social aggregator (FriendFeed)
 * identi.ca in a very partial manner, see http://identi.ca/settings/twitter
 * whoisi now has source!
 * NoseRub / Identoo
 * Books (LibraryThing, Shelfari, Goodreads)
 * O'reilly Bookworm supports ePub ebook format and is under BSD license. As ePub is DRM encumbered, perhaps it can be modified to support the docbook format?
 * Code metadata (Ohloh)
 * CIA A real-time window software development, GPL licensed
 * IRC (Mibbit)
 * qwebirc
 * Tiny Tiny IRC
 * Avatar Image Hosting (Gravatar)
 * Libravatar
 * Url shortener
 * Yourls
 * LilURL (used by ur1.ca and others)

Creation, publication, and distribution

 * Artwork-oriented
 * Creating Music Collaboratively (Kompoz.com, Jamendo.com)
 * Painting collaboratively
 * Wikipainting Paint collaboratively, now dead
 * Sugar has an activity similar to this
 * Torrent database sites (piratebay.org, LegalTorrents)
 * More general publication
 * Bibliographic databases (emeraldinsight.com, springerlink.com)
 * CiteSeerX (code link at bottom of page)
 * Whole publication management, often including submission management
 * Topaz and Ambra: Used by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), supported by many free software-related groups (SFLC, Fedora Commons)
 * Open Journal Systems
 * Olorien
 * Conference and review management
 * OpenConf
 * MyReview
 * EasyChair
 * CyberChair
 * iChair
 * Eventm

Utilities

 * Feed manipulator (Yahoo Pipes)
 * DERI Pipes
 * Full-Text RSS (AGPL)
 * Feed helper (Feed Burner)
 * Feed Generator out of any content (Feed43)
 * Visitor statistics (Google Analytics)
 * Piwik.org
 * Translator
 * Apertium test site - unstable version
 * Comment systems (disqus, intense debate, haloscan, js-kit)
 * talkatv AGPLv3/Apache License 2.0 commenting service, uses CORS and has a  fallback.
 * Juvia AGPLv3
 * isso MIT
 * Comment Widget - Easy Ajax Comments does this in a basic way, and according to the doc "CommentWidget isn't released under a particular open source license. You can do whatever you like with the code, anything at all."
 * symbio claims to implement this, but the last release was 2004, and the project page notes "as of 2008-04-30 00:00, this project is no longer under active development."
 * See also TiddlyWiki: Enabling comments on tiddlers thread and Free Network Commenting Service - does it exist? blog post.
 * Anti-spam à la akismet, mollom and defensio (decentralized, federated?)
 * http://spamicity.info/ Designed for federated social and microblogging websites.
 * http://antispam.typepad.com/ ?
 * http://blogspam.net/ ?
 * Url shortener (TinyURL)
 * ur1.ca
 * Semantic metadata generator (http://www.opencalais.com)
 * Since Thomson Reuters' "goal (...) is not to make money, but rather to make it easy for folks to categorize and tag their content", maybe they could be convinced into releasing Calais as Open Source.
 * Term Extraction

Backend

 * Storage (Amazon S3, imageshack.us, box.net. Variety of models)
 * AllMyData's Project Tahoe might fit the bill here)
 * Jesse Vincent's Prophet
 * Cluenet.org is an organization of UNIX servers across the Internet that are combined to provide free services to users; Users are required to show respect to others and spread knowledge
 * Virtual machine provisioning (Amazon EC2)
 * http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu is free and EC2 compatible, but needs service providers to use it
 * Globus
 * OpenNebula
 * Virtual web hosting (Google AppEngine)
 * 10gen
 * AppScale
 * Community Cloud showstoppers (opt-in grid hosting based on the principles of http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/)
 * Phantom Anonymity protocol being a known hoster makes one an easy target for attackers (spammers, crackers); anonymity counters that!
 * Filtering spam & malware out of the hosting cloud is harder than on the blog comments, wikis; noone wants to be part of a network that spreads spam and malware
 * Encryption
 * CACert makes free SSL Certificates
 * FSFE Fellowship Card OpenPGP cryptographic smartcard
 * Domain Names
 * Social DNS
 * Distributed DNS

Project Hosting

 * Trac-based options including cluemapper, oforge, agilo, kforge. None of these have real built-in FNS features on either a technical or license level, but some FNS features can be tacked on with sys admin work outside the projects themselves.
 * FNS Project Hosting - FNS Software Research - Research into options with built-in FNS features.
 * Launchpad.net is licensed under AGPLv3.0
 * code.autonomo.us - Host your project without depending on the cloud!
 * Gitorious aims to provide a great way of doing distributed opensource code collaboration
 * Software statistics (ohloh.net)
 * CIA A real-time window software development, GPL licensed
 * CPAN for web development
 * JavaScript Archive Network is a comprehensive resource for JavaScript libraries and software (Dead for 1.67 years)
 * maybe we can add a html/CSS template sharing feature to that JSAN...
 * For non-software projects (community organizing) Open Planning Project has
 * Virtual Hosting For Free Software VHFFS is used by http://tuxfamily.org to host free software and libre-related websites like Art Libre promoters or LUG
 * several other libre forge are listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software) and other software hosting is compared (not always based on free software)
 * Fossil is a distributed version control system (similar to git, hg, etc.) with a built-in web interface including wiki, tickets, and history all in a single small binary. Can be run as a CGI program even on many shared hosts. BSD license. Built by the author of SQLite.

Knowledge Bases

 * Text-based
 * MediaWiki
 * Structured Tables (Freebase.com)
 * Location related (wikimapia.org, wikicrimes.org)
 * Q&A (Stack Overflow)
 * Shapado
 * Solace

Already covered areas

 * Blogging
 * Wordpress
 * LiveJournal, Typead,


 * Microblogging:
 * Identi.ca
 * Jisko.net
 * Jaiku Engine


 * Identity / credentials
 * OpenID
 * OAuth