This site is holding a number of web pages for groups producing open standards. Character sets, formal specs for a number of languages, and user interface design.
LibreTexts is the adaptable, user-friendly open education resource platform that educators trust for creating, customizing, and sharing accessible, interactive textbooks, adaptive homework, and ancillary materials. We collaborate with individuals and organizations to champion open education initiatives, support institutional publishing programs, drive curriculum development projects, and more.
LibreTexts is the largest centralized open education project and platform online. Founded in 2008 at the University of California, Davis as the ChemWiki, the LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.
An open standard for a common interconnect between headsets and radios.
OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable corporation. Our mission is to improve educational access and learning for everyone. We do this by publishing openly licensed books, developing and improving research-based courseware, establishing partnerships with educational resource companies, and more.
OpenStax resources provide K12 teachers high-quality, peer-reviewed, OER content in multiple accessible formats. Includes textbooks, problem sets, answer guides, slides, and more.
Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution. The criteria for including new textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are:
- All content must be openly licensed. We accept textbooks licensed with GNU and Creative Commons (CC) licenses, with the exception of the CC ND (No Derivatives) component. CC BY is recommended. Go to Creative Commons for more information about selecting a license for your work.
- Must be a complete textbook available as a complete portable file (e.g. PDF, EPUB).
- Must be in use at multiple higher education institutions, or affiliated with a higher education institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
- Must be an original textbook (not a derivative of another textbook). Possible exceptions to this criteria are modifications that reflect the needs or context of an entirely new audience. For example, the textbook has been changed in such a significant way that it is now relevant to a new country, profession, or has been translated into a new language. Authors or publishers will be asked to demonstrate significant changes to the original text.
Home of delightful curated lists of free software, open science and information sources.
A list of lists.
The largest open database of companies in the world. Search for information about corporations and companies as well as corporate officers across multiple jurisdictions. All data is from primary public sources and is included with results for fact checking.
API: https://api.opencorporates.com/
Maybe write an adapter for Searx to use their API?
Nyuzi is an experimental GPGPU processor hardware design focused on compute intensive tasks. It is optimized for use cases like deep learning and image processing.
This project includes a synthesizable hardware design written in System Verilog, an instruction set emulator, an LLVM based C/C++ compiler, software libraries, and tests. It can be used to experiment with microarchitectural and instruction set design tradeoffs.
A free, independent, and open source set of curricula for learning languages.
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.
The μg Project is a collection of free and open development APIs that are fully compatible with Google's GAPPS APIs but use different back end services. For example, rather than Google Maps there is a library which uses Open Streetmaps instead, but code written to use the Google Maps API won't know the difference.
socnet and archive of public and open data for research and study. Encourages people to upload their own datasets for others to use. I use Github to authenticate.
Curated list of Keybase open public team channels.
An online open and crowdsourced weather service. People set up automatic weather stations (which are fairly cheap) and contribute measurements that are aggregated into forecasts. Has an API so you can pull data out of it as well as contribute it: http://openweathermap.org/appid Free accounts are, of course, limited in several ways. You can also get weather maps of various kinds from the service to visualize the forecast data. Forecast data is in XML, JSON, and HTML formats.
There is also an air pollution API: https://openweathermap.org/api/air-pollution
A blog of free and open educational and cultural resources from around the Net.
Homepage for a DIY portable computer.
Homepage for the Kestrel Project, a F/OSS, fully open computer built around the RISC-V CPU.