Free direct democracy software for linux

Direct Democracy Portal is a portal for online organizations governed through direct democracy.

It uses Maven 2, MySQL, hibernate3, Spring, Struts Tiles, and JSTL on JBoss.

DConnect Daemon is a Direct Connects hub working as daemon. It works currently under linux and FreeBSD, but we want to make them work on all Unixes (and under Windows).
DConnect Daemon works as a daemon in background and does not require any Xwindow system. Everything should work without any maintenance, but with possible runtime manipulations.
Main features:
- written in pure C
- utilizes threads - allow to work faster on SMP mashines
- good and strict protocol implementation - as far as we know it...
- access limitation through libwrap
- telnet administration console and traditional with DC client
- flexible configuration
Enhancements:
- Because full support for syslog is included, the old way of logging to files was removed.
- Switch to syslog-ng is recommended as it will make your logs cleaner.
- Silent mode is now switched on so it is impossible to redirect users who should not have access to the service you provide.

EText Reader project is a simple cross-platform GUI EText reader.. It uses the wxWindows GUI library.
It allows selection of font, and foreground and background colors, as well as persistant reading position and bookmarking. It supports browsing, searching, and direct downloading of Project Gutenberg ETexts.
It features a built-in online dictionary for instant word definitions while reading.
Compiling the source
./configure
make
make install
Enhancements:
- As of this release, configure (and automake) scripts have been created.

Java DIME Library project implements Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME), which is a lightweight binary encapsulation format that can be used to encapsulate multiple payloads of arbitrary types and sizes into a single message.
DIME is ideal for incorporating binary attachments into any XML-based protocol. The library fully supports the latest DIME specifications.
Enhancements:
- Corrected DimeRecord.isFirst() thanks to John Russell

XCB (X protocol C-language Binding) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility.

It has several advantages over Xlib, including size (small library and lower memory footprint), latency hiding (batch several requests and wait for the replies later), direct protocol access (one-to-one mapping between interface and protocol), thread support (access XCB from multiple threads, with no explicit locking), and easy creation of new extensions (automatically generates its interface from machine-parsable XML protocol descriptions).

Xlib can also use XCB as a transport layer, allowing software to make requests and receive responses with both, which eases porting to XCB. However, client programs, libraries, and toolkits will gain the most benefit from a native XCB port.

Pybliographer is a tool for managing bibliographic databases. Pybliographic can be used for searching, editing, reformatting, etc.

In fact, its a simple framework that provides easy to use python classes and functions, and therefore can be extended to many uses (generating HTML pages according to bibliographic searches, etc).

In addition to the scripting environment, a graphical Gnome interface is available. It provides powerful editing capabilities, a nice hierarchical search mechanism, direct insertion of references into LyX and Kile, direct queries on Medline, and more.

It currently supports the following file formats: BibTeX, ISI, Medline, Ovid, Refer.
Pybliographer is licenced under the GNU GPL, and available with its source code for free.

microdc is a command-line based Direct Connect client that uses the GNU Readline library for user interaction. microdc was developed from ground up and does not depend on any other program. Despite the command-line user interface, microdc was designed to be user friendly and simple to use.
microdc is currently in beta state - there may be many bugs not yet discovered. It also lacks some features that other clients support, such as file hashing, multiple hub connections, and hub list support.
microdc is free software - it is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is written in C by Oskar Liljeblad, and is designed to compile and run on modern POSIX compatible systems such as Linux.
Main features:
- Nearly full support of the original Direct Connect protocol.
- GNU Readline support.
- Sensible tab-completion of commands, user names, local files, remote files, speed names, and connection names.
- One process per connection for optimal transfer rates.
- Small memory footprint (I think).