Free social software for linux

SocNetV is a Linux GUI program written in Qt3.
Social Networks Visualiser project main purpose is to bring to our Linux box comprehensive Social Networks Analysis and Visualisation.
It can read and write various network file formats and enables the user to visually modify an existing network or draw a new network using the mouse. Network and actor properties, such as distances, centralities, diameter etc, can be easily computed. Also, it can create random networks (lattice, same degree, etc).
SocNetV is NOT antagonistic to any commercial/scientific SNA programs, like PAJEK, visone, UCINET, AISee, KrackPlot, which are developed by groups of professionals and scientists. It is rather a personal trip to learn SNA and C++ programming while keeping the code open for others to learn from my mistakes. If you find it useful Ill be glad. But be aware that there is no warranty of efficiency, correctness or usability.
Oh, and this site is under never-ending construction as well.
Installation:
To see SocNetV in action, you need a modern Linux distro with Qt 3.x. Download the latest release from the link "Download" on the left. Untar the archive, cd to the new directory, and use:
/usr/lib/qt3/bin/qmake (or wherever are your Qt libs)
make
./socnetv
Enhancements:
- tarball of v. 043.1 was corrupted. fixed.
- Fixed display of HTML help in Debian package.
- Fixed wrong numbering of new actors with double-click.
- Fixed creation of links through middle-click.

Search engines like Google do a fine job when it comes to search, but they do little to help us organise our past searches, nor do they make it easy for us to share our search experiences with others. This is more than just an inconvenience because very often we waste time re-searching for results that we know we found earlier. And even more often we find ourselves looking for information that one of our friends or colleagues has already found.

Enhancements:

• Added promotion filters that restrict result promotions in Google to results that have been selected numerous times, that have been tagged, or that have been voted up more times than they have been voted down.
• Added positive/negative promotion filters to stak creation so that users can cause URLs with the specified string to always or never be promoted on Google result pages.
• Result site favicons are used to annotate URLs promoted by positive filters (where available).
• Added timeouts which reset to the private "My Searches" stak after prolonged inactivity, and that expire the use of query terms as default tags and vote terms.
• Voting and page sharing have been added to the activity feed
• Share and remove options are greyed out in the stak menu for staks where this should not be possible (e.g. "My Searches").
• Added "Preview" feature via an icon next to results on the Google result list users can now browse through the result pages without leaving the result list.
• Enabled page sharing and preview features for non logged-in users.
• Improved the formatting of the icons inserted next to results on the Google result page so that they don't "jump" when results are moused-over.

Requirements:

• Mozilla Firefox

CElect provides a tool for finding preferential ballot election winners and PR council sets.

CElect is a console-based tool for determining a social preference ordering, such as an elected candidate or choice in a single-winner election, or the preferred composition of a multi-member council, based on a list of individual preference orderings (ballots) over the candidates or choices.

It can also calculate the winner and social ordering when given a Condorcet matrix and list of candidates, though it is in that case limited to Condorcet methods.

Of single-winner methods, it supports Dodgson, Simpson, Tideman/wv, first and second-order Copeland, and Schulze (all Condorcet methods), and FPTP, Borda, 1/n Borda, Hare, Nanson, and 1/n Nanson.

Of proportional representation, it supports CPO-STV, CFPRM, and DHondt without lists.

NewsCloud Media Platform project is a LAMP-based social network community site for news aggregation and citizen journalism. The system integrates Smarty for template customization.
The NewsCloud Media Platform allows bloggers, developers, communities and organizations to integrate news gathering and discussions between their own Web sites and the NewsCloud community. The NewsCloud Media Platform is open source and can also be used to launch independent news-based community Web sites.
The NewsCloud Wiki will help you get more involved in using the NewsCloud Media Platform.
Guides for Bloggers and Groups
NewsCloud makes it easy for bloggers to share their work with our community and improve the news gathering elements of your own site. If you are a blogger interested in using NewsCloud to enhance and promote your blog, youll want to read our Guide for Bloggers. Our Guide for Groups is coming soon.
Guide for Developers
Whether you are interested in using our NewsCloud Web Services API to enhance your own Web site or want to get involved in using or extending the code behind NewsCloud, youll want to learn more about the NewsCloud Media Platform. Please visit our Guide for Developers for more information.
We also have set up a Google Groups Developer Forum for discussions and peer support.
Guide to Templates
NewsCloud provides a powerful templating system for customizing your journal, your groups and soon your own news site. If you are interested in designing the look and feel of your NewsCloud pages to brand your organization, non-profit, blog or Web site, please visit our Guide to Templates
Enhancements:
- We made some slight changes to make installation easier.
- We have a complete Debian install script on our Wiki now.

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses. Such e-learning systems are sometimes also called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). One of the main advantages of Moodle over other systems is a strong grounding in social constructionist pedagogy.
Moodle is Open Source software, which means you are free to download it, use it, modify it and even distribute it (under the terms of the GNU General Public License). Moodle runs without modification on Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Netware and any other system that supports PHP, including most webhost providers. Data is stored in a single database: MySQL and PostgreSQL are best supported, but it can also be used with Oracle, Access, Interbase, ODBC and others.
Moodle has 50 language packs, including: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and US versions), Finnish, French (France and Canada versions), German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish.
Main features:
- Overall design of Moodle
- Site management
- User management
- Course management
- Auto-linking
- Mathematics notation
- Media plugins
- Multi-language content
- An "Upload File" assignment
- An "Offline" assignment
- A "Repeating" chat with public session logs
- A "Open" chat event
- A Choice with anonymous results
- A Choice with non-anonymous results
- A Choice that allows you to update anytime
- A Standard forum for general use
- Each person posts one discussion
- A single discussion
- Teacher-Defined Glossary
- Learner-Defined Glossary
- A glossary of common terms
- A graded journal
Enhancements:
- The four big headline features are Roles (a complete new architecture for assigning people permissions), the XML database schema (which now supports a wider range of databases), a new admin interface (designed to make it much easier to find settings and configure Moodle properly), and the Unit testing framework (which allows developers to write unit tests that can be run as part of a system check to make sure Moodle code is performing as expected).

OpenLX is a Linux distribution made in India. It is based on Fedora Core with updated packages and many user-friendly enhancements, such as complete multimedia capabilities, support for 6 Indian languages, Java SDK and an extra application CD.
OpenLX comes in two editions - a single-CD "Desktop" edition and a 5-CD "Enterprise" edition.
Main features:
- Ease of Installation
- Single CD Desktop install
- LTSP Thin-client automated Installation
- Kalculate(Eval), Globally, the First Financial Accounting & Inventory package bundled
- Supermount making CD-Rom handling easy, enabled by default for removable media (CD-ROM, Floppies, USB-storage, etc.)
- SCSI emulation is no longer needed to use CD recorders
- POSIX ACLs option available, just add "acl" to the mount options. Samba can also take advantage of this to emulate NT-type ACL
- Number of hardware devices that require drivers supplied by the device manufacturer are now configured at system installation time.
- MacromediaFlash7 plugin
- WINE custom-configured to run many MS-Windows applications straight out of the box with printer support
- Personal firewall with graphical configuration utility myfirewall, aimed for desktop users, not servers, with a simple configuration
- Support for many Indian languages with fonts
- Unique features for the use of IT-Engineering students with top-of-the-line Development environment and tools to study and conduct their projects that can become live-part of the Distribution
- NVIDIA 3D drivers
- Java-2 SDK & Eclipse pre-configured for Java Developers
- Anti-virus: ships with Clamav and Amavisd, Samba shipped with several VFS anti-virus modules
- Ximian connector included as a plugin allowing Evolution users to access the group-ware features on Exchange 2000 or 2003 server, as well as email
- Support to all possible Initiatives from India
- Institutions can become excellent centers of technical development for the world, giving their students the best exposure
- Soft-modems drivers included for many soft-modem models
- CUPS Printers driver, easily configurable, includes support for over a thousand printer models
- Gambas the new VB-like IDE alternative pre-configured with Unix-ODBC and Sqlite
- DOSEMU pre-configured with mouse support, supports legacy DOS applications developed in Foxpro & Clipper
- Creative scope for Educational Institutions
- Availability of tools used by NGOs and other Social-sector organisations reducing their cost of Computing, while using the best possible tools for their work.

DevBoi is an extension which adds a sidebar with web-development references.

Web development is a broad term that incorporates all areas of developing a web site for the World Wide Web. This can include e-commerce business development, web design, web content development, client-side/server-side coding, and web server configuration. However, among web professionals, "web development" usually refers only to the non-design aspects of building Web sites, e.g. writing markup and coding. Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, or social network services.

For larger businesses and organizations, web development teams can consist of hundreds of people. Smaller organizations may only require a single permanent or contracting webmaster, or secondary assignment to related job positions such as a graphic designer and/or Information systems technician. Web development may be a collaborative effort between departments rather than the domain of a designated department.