Gnodal Journal

… news to me!

“ODB was made available for public download in March 2002 to give grassroots organizations the ability to immediately start using a high-quality database product.”

See also Organizers’ Collaborative; mission statement; Technical Tips for Small Nonprofits and Social Change Groups; the obligatory page of links.
Related:
* CALF is a web application written in perl, the Collaboratively Administered Lister and Filer.” (demonstration site; log in with the user password combinations example | example and superuser | superuser.)
* DemocracyGroups.org, “a national directory of social change email lists and forums.”

Savannah, “This web site (called Savannah) is a central point for development, distribution and maintenance of GNU Software.”

From PlanetMath‘s “Noosphere” project (a nice set of resources listed on this page), to CITIDEL, “Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library” produced by a consortium led by Hofstra University, The College of New Jersey, The Pennsylvania State University, Villanova University, and Virginia Tech.
See “What is a digital library?” here, and also “Noosphere’s Authority Model“.

* BP Center for Visualization; a new research Center at the University of Colorado.
* Cal3d, a skeletal based 3d character animation library. (Boy, I sure wish I had /this/ 6 years ago! Imagine building a human frame from scratch. Now imagine adding a really complex node structure for each and every joint you want to animate. Hint: nothing works well if you cut corners; give up, and put in /all/ the joints. Believe me, there really are just as many joints as you imagine!)

*Good luck, Carmien!*

* Here’s what I’ve bothered *sigh* falsely signing onto this network to post: Information Growth & Diffusion Simulator. Ooooh!
A rather handsome statement of principle

I lurched when I came across the term “community of practice” while looking through resources on community development.

OMG, some folkz are finally shaking their heads.
Earlier this evening I found myself with tears running down my face …