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# free software for open thinking
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/free-software-for-open-thinking/
- Published: 2005-01-26T18:01:54.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:32:49.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

The Inter Press Service, which has a big team reporting from the forum, carried this earlier today

*...All of about 1,000 computers at the forum are using* 
*free software. The official website has been developed* 
*for the first time in 'php,' an open source language.* 
  
*A new translation system is also a free software tool.* 
*The system has been developed by Nomad, a group of* 
*programmers from India, Brazil, France and Britain* 
*working since 2003 on a voluntary basis to build the* 
*system for the World Social Forum (WSF).* 
  
*A Tunisian group has developed a programme to store* 
*video footage and offer it on the Internet.*  
  
more at:[http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=2717](http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=27175&ref=opendemocracy.net)  
  
James Crabtree, our consulting e-political guru, may have something to say  
on this and other IT related aspects of the Forum