A wiki of the weirdest stuff you can find through mail order. Brought to you by the Church of the Subgenius.
A community-built and maintained database of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that includes bibliographic data, community reviews, ISBN numbers of as many editions as people can find (of use to amateur librarians such as myself), and links to anthologies.
A collaborative website which maps wireless access points all across the world using information donated by enterprising wardrivers.
A wiki of designs, schematics, and links to open source electronics projects. If you get lost in here long enough you'll find some interesting stuff.
A grassroots peer-based education project based around online learning and remote collaboration between small groups of students. They just started up so things are a little thin at the moment. This is an interesting experiment to keep your eye on. Creative Commons.
A wiki full of information pertaining to the construction of sustainable communities, from engineering to water purification, construction, and agriculture.
A wiki about international travel by international travelers. Talks about many different destinations, specific places and times you might want to visit, airports, local travel, things to do, food, telecommunications, and safety.
An interactive online map of all of the IXPs in the global Net.
A collection of opensource guides for amazon's webservices - from EC2 to S3 to ALB and Lambda. Includes the basics, useful tips, and gotchas. Touches on high availability configurations cost management, and community best practices.
A web application (written using Ruby on Rails) that aims to make it easier for groups to reach decisions. Used to bring people into a collaborative space, facilitate discussion, and keep them on topic. Visual summarization of discussion and chosen outcomes.
Little Free Library is a nonprofit organization based in Hudson, Wisconsin.
Our mission is to be a catalyst for building community, inspiring readers, and expanding book access for all through a global network of volunteer-led Little Free Libraries.
Our vision is a Little Free Library in every community and a book for every reader. We believe all people are empowered when the opportunity to discover a personally relevant book to read is not limited by time, space, or privilege.
voice assistant speechrecognition exocortex Designed for privacy, runs on-device on-prem, works without a network connection. There are community contributed skills, called snips, provided skills, and you can develop your own with a web based visual builder. Supports multiple human languages. Deploy to your own devices as long as they run android or linux. github repos here: https://github.com/snipsco
volunteer effort to improve the state of Open Streetmap in places that are generally ignored by other maps because they're too far away, too rural, or otherwise unprivileged or underserved. NGOs and first responders rely on OSM during disasters. They can also rally mappers to develop datasets in specific locations at need (after disasters, usually).
A portal site at which people share calendars of various sorts which you can watch using Outlook, Thunderbird, Sunbird, or Google Calendar. In Apple iCal format (which is fast becoming a standard).
RepRap is an open-source (hardware, software, and documentation) desktop fabrication system which lets you construct arbitrary objects (or parts for assembling more complex systems). It's unique in that you can construct one yourself for about $400us, and it is fully capable of making duplicates of itself.
A website of alternative energy and DIY home projects. Ever wanted to build your own windmill, generator, or CNC router? Check this site out.