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This page lists Free Culture projects, as "sublist" of Free and open source projects.
General
- Creative Commons - is a nonprofit organization that increases sharing and improves collaboration
- Free Culture Canada - seeks to protect & enhance everyone's freedom to access, enjoy, share, create & transform culture in all its forms
- Free Culture News - let freedom ring
- Freedom defined - defines "Free Cultural Works" as works or expressions which can be freely studied, applied, copied and/or modified, by anyone, for any purpose
- FreeCulture.org - Students for Free Culture is an international student organization promoting the public interest in intellectual property and telecommunications policy
- Question Copyright - demonstrates how freedom-based distribution is better for artists and audiences
See also Free culture
Decision Making
- Ideagraph - An open, non-profit system for organizing arguments and achieving consensuses
- Vilfredo Goes To Athens - uses a human based genetic algorithm to help participants build a consensus
- Votorola Communityware for building consensus and reaching decisions
- WhyNot? - integrates debate and voting for popularity of ideas
See also Decision making
Free Communities
Social Networking
- AppleSeed - the first open source, fully decentralized social networking software. (Currently under development)
- Diaspora - is the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network (Currently under development)
- Freenode IRC - provides discussion facilities for the Free and Open Source Software communities
- GNUnet - a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services
- Identi.ca - is a micro-blogging service based on Free Software
- TeamBox - empower workplace communication
- Dot-P2P - A free, decentralized, and open DNS system!
Free Education / Science
- ADUni - is the website of the alumni of ArsDigita University (ADU)
- Archive.org Education - Open Educational Resources and university lectures
- arXiv - 637,395 open e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
- CoLab - is designed for open and massively collaborative science.
- Connexions - is a place to view and share educational material.
- Creative Commons in Education - Why Creative Commons licenses for education
- Kaizendo - Customizable and dynamic peer produced textbooks
- Khan Academy - Open world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
- MIT Open Course Ware - educational media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license
- Open Book Project - is aimed at the educational community and seeks to encourage and coordinate collaboration.
- OpenSourceScience - is a public space for managing controversial scientific experiments in a way that provides open access to of all phases of the research.
- OSSP - Open Source Science Project
- UChannel - Access to a world of ideas
See also Education
Free Events / Festivals
- Free Culture Tour - is a multimedia show by Colin Mutchler
- FSCONS - Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit
- GoodBuzz - Peer referral network for Event organizers and promoters
- iParty - a gathering of fans of Linux and free software
- Open Source Festival - for actual music (german site)
See also Meetings
Free Media
- Archive.org - is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.
- Atagar - Free Media Directory
- Clearbits - Open Licensed Digital Media
- Creative Commons Search - how to search for cc media at google, flickr, jamendo, spinxpress and wiki
- FreeBase - is a community powered search engine to search the web for CC licensed work for you to use
- FreeMedia - is a global network for a free media
- OpenCulture - Free cultural & educational media on the web
- Yahoo CC Search - lets you search for creative commons media at yahoo
Free Books
- CC Books - Books licensed with Creative Commons
- Free Culture - is a book by Lawrence Lessig
- Manybooks CCL - Creative Commons e-books
- Open Library - One web page for every book
See also Books
Free Encyclopedia
- ScolarPedia - peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world
- Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
- Wolfram Alpha - computational knowledge engine
Free Music
- ccMixter - is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons
- Copyleft Records - provides all of their artists' music to everyone for free
- Dogmazic - Musique Libre
- Free Music Archive - is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads
- Jamendo - is a music website and a community of music authors
- Libre.fm - allows you to share your listening habits and discover new music
- Open Source Music - Free Sheet Music, Analysis and More
- Opsound - is a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of free software to music
- Pragmzic - is a music portal which only distributes labels releasing works under open licenses (Creative Commons, Copyleft)
- Small Brain Records is an open source record label
- Starfrosch - is a community blog for music and videos of all genres, which can be downloaded from the internet for free
Free Sounds
- Delamar Free Sample Pack Loops - 8,5 GB of free samples (German site).
- Freie-Sounds.de - Directory for license-free Samples, Loops and Music (German site).
- FreeSound Project - is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.
- SoundSource - Free sound, sample and noize archive (German site).
See also Music
Free Photos and Graphics
- Creative Commons Search - Image search
- EveryStockPhoto - is a search engine for free photos
- Flickr CCsearch - search for creative commons attribute licenced images and then provides HTML code to embed the image into your blog or web page
- FreePhotoBank - is a free stock photo site
- Geograph.org.uk - is an attempt to photograph the entirety of the British Isles, and at the same time, license all the photos under the CC.
- NounProject - Intuitive symbols for nouns, creative commons
- Open Clipart Library - v0.19 (377mb)
Free Video
- FC TV - Free Culture TV (site seems to be under construction)
- Indymedia - Video Distribution Network
- OurMedia - Powering Change through Environmental Media
- MoviePals - Peer produced Open cinema for everyone
- Project Code Rush - Open Source Movie
- SpinXpress - is used by independent global media producers to create videos, music compilations, and other collaborative media projects
- Videobloggers - a playground for the Yahoo Videoblogging Group
- Vodo - BitTorrent / P2P film distribution website for community funding and promotion.
- Youtomb - is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation
Free Movies
- BIG BUCK BUNNY - Funny 3D Cartoon made with Blender
- Valkaama - is a collaborative Open Source Movie
Free Podcast
- NerdTV - is a technology TV show from PBS. Freely downloadable and licensed under a Creative Commons license
- OSMwiki - Open Source Musician Podcast
- TED Talk - Ideas worth spreading
Free Nutrition
- FreeBeer - is the first brand of beer with a "free" recipe - free as in "freedom", taken after the term "Free Software"
- Open Cola (@wikipedia) - An Cola receipt on GPL license. Check this wiki too: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:OpenCola_(drink)
- Open Source Beer Project - is a community effort spearheaded by Flying Dog Brewery to develop a beer using Open Source methodology