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Educational Free Software and Savannah Projects

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• "Free Software in Education"
• GNU Software
• Savannah Projects

"Free Software in Education"

This Savannah group will host some of our software projects; through it, for example, we plan to produce an installable software distribution. Check back here for more.

GNU Software

In addition to GNU/Linux, the GNU Software and the GNU Documentation, there are some GNU packages specially designed for education:

• Dr. Genius is an interactive and graphical tool that allows the user to explore and discover Euclidean geometry.
• Ggradebook is a graphical application for teachers that allows them to track students' grades.
• GNU Typist is a typing tutor. It is an interpreter of typing tutorials, which includes tutorials for several languages and keyboard layouts.
• Solfege is program that can assist you with eartraining.
• Gcompris is a suite of educational software for young children.

Other free software useful for education can be found at:

• The section Education of the Free Software Directory maintained by the Free Software Foundation.
• The directory freeduc from OFSET.

If you wish to know more, or if you would like to join a free educational software project, please have a look at the Savannah projects in the next section. Or drop us a mail at education@gnu.org.

Savannah Projects

Savannah is the GNU collaborative project management center. Many GNU and non-GNU Free Software and Free Documentation projects are hosted there. Here are some of the ones we've found; if you belong on this list, tell us at education@gnu.org.

Please note that the majority of these are development-only projects in varying states of completion, and not ready for full deployment.

K12 administration

• Edventure (course management)
• ggradebook - freeduc description
• Gsched (timetables)

K12 education

• bdtheme, for managing resources
• GNU GCompris, a game for the youngest - freeduc description
• geocaml (euclidian geometry)
• gtypist, a typing tutor - freeduc description
• TuxReader

Academic

• CarboGen, a carbohydrate design system
• DNArchitect, for analysis of molecular biology sequences
• Haplo, finite element analysis software
• MoDAB, a database framework for biological data
• TeXmacs, a WYSIWYG scientific text editor - freeduc description
• Zebra, for constraint satisfaction problem solving

Special Purpose

• Freetrack (satellite tracking)
• Gene (genealogy)
• Virtual Life Laboratory (virtual animal societies)
• wsat (satellite tracking)
• Zipdy (us zip code distance calculations)

Components and Libraries (for educational software developers)

• Advanced Game Library
• cardpics
• Flashcarbon
• FLOWER
• lafontaine (graphical logo interpreter)
• Braille library
• Opale (mathematical library)

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