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Sí, sé que están en inglés, pero el listado incluye una serie de herramientas útiles para periodistas que tienen la característica de ser completamente abiertas y gratuitas. Vía onlinecourses.org.

Recomiendo principalmente las categorías Publishing, Sharing & Content Management, Blogging, Inspiration, Media y Utility…

1. Open Source Writers Group: Join this group to get lots of great writing resources.
2. OpenOffice Writer: OpenOffice Writer offers a fully featured, familiar, and easy to use word processor.
3. wikidPad: Use this wiki-style notepad to keep your ideas and notes together, and even cross-reference information.
4. AbiWord: AbiWord is one of the most popular open source word processors available.
5. WordIt: WordIt is a simple, small word processor with advanced features.
6. Amaya: With this web editing program, you’ll be able to update and edit your content right on the Web.
7. Bean: Use this lightweight word processor to easily write and edit.
8. PDF Creator: PDF Creator offers a simple way to create new PDF files.
9. Scribus: Use Scribus as a writing tool and desktop publishing solution.
10. yWriter: Designed specifically for writers, yWriter will keep you focused and organized.
11. Jarnal: Jarnal offers a great way to take notes, annotate documents, and more.
12. Kword: This tool offers frame-based word processing.
13. RoughDraft: This tool is great for organizing stories or screenplays.
14. NotePad++: NotePad++ is the open source version of Microsoft’s NotePad.
15. NeoOffice: In this open source suite, you’ll find a word processor for Mac users.
16. TiddlyWiki: TiddlyWiki is a wiki style notebook that makes it easy for you to take notes or hang onto ideas.

Publishing, Sharing & Content Management

1. MediaWiki: You’ll be able to easily publish and edit your webpages with MediaWiki.
2. Joomla!: Joomla is a very powerful open source content management system.
3. Cabos: Cabos is a simple, easy to use program for filesharing.
4. FireFTP: This FTP program works directly with Firefox, so it’s easy to get your content online.
5. Gnucleus: Gnucleus offers Gnutella search and download filesharing.
6. Drupal: Drupal is a powerful open source content management system, supporting websites, blogs, communities, and more.
7. Sun Weblog Publisher: Make publishing from StarOffice and OpenOffice super easy with this extension for WordPress, Blogger, and other blogging platforms.
8. Plone: This content management system is built on top of Zope.
9. Azureus: Azureus is a very powerful client for BitTorrent.
10. XOOPS: This dynamic web content management system is extensible and object oriented.
11. WebGUI: WebGUI offers a web application framework and web content management.
12. NVU: NVU is a fully featured web authoring system.
13. Filezilla FTP: Put your writing files on the web easily with FileZilla.
14. Opencms: Opencms is a professional and easy to use website content management system usable in open source environments and commercial components.

Blogging

1. Thingamablog: This blogging application offers effortless authoring and publishing.
2. Pebble: In Pebble, you’ll find a lightweight open source blogger that’s written as a web application.
3. Juice: Use Juice as a podcasting client.
4. WordPress: Bloggers can use open source WordPress to create a customizable blog.
5. SnipSnap: This free, easy tool offers blogging and wiki functionality.
6. DLOG4J: DLOG4J offers WYSIWYG blogging and comment editing, RSS, and more.
7. Blog: This software allows you to manage a multiple topic blog and create journals.
8. PowerBlog: PowerBlog is an open source, Windows-based desktop blogging client.
9. Blojsom: Get a simple, lightweight blog package in Blojsom.
10. Piwik: Use Piwik to monitor your blog’s stats.
11. Google Blog Converters: This software allows you to easily move blog posts and comments over from service to service.
12. Roller: Roller is an open source J2EE blog platform.
13. Blogunity: Blogunity offers community based blogging software.

Dictionary & Spell Check

1. GNU Aspell: GNU Aspell offers advanced open source spell checking.
2. WordNet: Use WordNet, and you’ll be able to look up loads of language data.
3. JaLingo: Look up dictionary words right from your desktop using JaLingo.
4. SpellJax: Make sure your spelling is perfect with SpellJax.
5. WordWeb: WordWeb offers a dictionary as well as a thesaurus.
6. Word Count Plus: Find out how many words you’ve written with the help of Word Count Plus.
7. Bibus: Use Bibus to make sure you’re properly citing your sources.
8. StarDict: Use this tool to look up words in your own dictionary desktop.
9. WBOSS: This open source script will allow you to paste text and find spelling errors.
10. GNU Style and Diction: Use GNU Style and Diction to ensure that your writing is free of cliches and other common problems.
11. Graviax: Get a quick grammar check using this tool.

Organization

1. Research Assistant: Keep your research organized with this useful tool.
2. EverNote: With EverNote, you can store and organize your writing information.
3. Celtx: Celtx makes it easy for you to keep all of your writing organized, especially if you use lots of special formatting.
4. Sonar: Use Sonar to keep track of your publishing submissions.
5. LyX: Using LyX, you can organize and format your writing.
6. StorYBook: Keep all of your data coherent and organized with the help of StorYBook.
7. Tellico: Use Tellico to easily manage any collection, whether it’s your writings or reference materials.
8. TreePad Lite: With the help of TreePad, you’ll be able to keep track of your notes, reference materials, and more.
9. SAMM: Stay on top of your writing submissions and more with SAMM.

Inspiration

1. XMind: Map out your concepts with the help of XMind.
2. Prompts: Use Prompts to get inspiration and get your creative juices flowing.
3. Freemind: With this mind mapping tool, you’ll be able to explore all of your great ideas.
4. Comapping: Comapping allows you to map ideas in real time with multiple users.

Communication

1. Zimbra: Use this email solution that offers backup and recovery, anti spam and anti virus, and more.
2. Pidgin: Use Pidgin to connect multiple IM accounts at once.
3. Rubrica: Rubrica is an address book manager for GNOME.
4. Asterisk: Asterisk is a complete telecommunications platform.
5. Gaim: You’ll be able to chat on just about any platform with this tool.
6. Mozilla Thunderbird: Mozilla Thunderbird has lots of great features for email, including powerful spam filtering.
7. Miranda: Miranda is an instant messenger that supports loads of different systems.

Media

1. GIMP: With this powerful image editor, you’ll be able to prepare images for publication.
2. VirtualDub: VirtualDub is a video capture and processing utility.
3. Miro: Miro is a fully featured video tool for you to use.
4. ImageMagick: ImageMagick makes it easy for you to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.
5. Gallery: Gallery is an open source photo sharing project with basic photo manipulation.
6. Paint.NET: Paint.NET is a graphics editor that offers a great interface.
7. Pencil: You can create hand drawn animations with the help of Pencil.
8. MediaCoder: MediaCoder: MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder.
9. Inkscape: Bring your writing work to life with original drawings, maps, and other illustrations.
10. Artweaver: Get creative and add artistic effects with Artweaver.
11. Audacity: Audacity is a simple sound recording tool.

Utility

1. Launchy: Launchy will make it easy for you to get all of your important programs open with just a few keystrokes.
2. ZManda: Make sure you back up your important information with the help of ZManda.
3. Mozilla SeaMonkey: Mozilla’s Sea Monkey offers an all in one solution for web editing, chatting, email, and browsing.
4. Spreeder: Do all of your reading faster with the help of Spreeder.
5. Docvert: With Docvert, you can convert old files into a new, more usable format.
6. ASuite: ASuite offers a great way to keep your important documents and more on your USB drive.
7. Writer’s Tools: This all around tool will help users of OpenOffice with document backup, translation, and more.
8. TrueCrypt: Using TrueCrypt, you’ll be able to send material in a secure way.
9. Eraser: With Eraser, you can remove sensitive data from your hard drive.
10. Mozilla Firefox: Use this open source browser for research and more.
11. phpMyVisits: Use this software for website statistics, audience measurements, and more.
12. PeaZip: PeaZip is a great tool for extracting and packing writing file archives.
13. EyeOS: EyeOS makes it easy to create a mobile desktop, so you can work from anywhere.
14. SuperShredder: Make sure your sensitive files are shredded with SuperShredder.
15. txt2tags: Get your text coded easily with this open source program.

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