February 24, 2009
Eight Open Source Projects for Highly Effect Job Hunting
Unemployment is rising and competition for the few jobs that are available is becoming tougher than ever. With each open job requisition, hiring managers are receiving hundreds of resumes. How do you stand out of the crowd? What can you do to get noticed? How can you start an interesting conversation?
The key to successfully finding a job is to prove your expertise, while differentiating yourself from the crowd. It takes creativity and ingenuity – which are both possible using open source software. Open source can help you distinguish yourself without pulling on your purse strings, and more importantly, show how tech-savvy and creative you are.
Innovative Ideas in Using Open Source to Help Find Your Next Job
The Open Source Job Hunters Toolkit
Development Tools
| Description | Overview | Commercial Equivalents |
| Project Name: Opengoo | ||
| OpenGoo is an Open Source Web Office. It is a complete solution for every organization to create, collaborate, share and publish all its internal and external documents. | Developed by the Opengoo community, Opengoo 1.2 available February 17, 2009. | Microsoft Office Home and Student |
| Project Name: Scribus | ||
| Scribus is a desktop publishing application released under the GNU General Public License and is free to the public. Scribus is designed for flexible layout and typesetting. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. | Established in 2003 by the Scribus team, the latest version released in June, 2008. | Adobe Illustrator |
| Project Name: TextPattern | ||
| Textpattern is a web application designed to help overcome the constraints of plain text and the unpredictability of WYSIWYGs to publishing online, and to simplify the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages | Established in 2005 with a small but dedicated team of contributors. No known reported vulnerabilities in current version 4.0.8. | Square Space |
| Project Name: Gimp | ||
| GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. | Gimp was created in 1995. Maintained by dozens of people, Gimp 2.6.4 was released January 1, 2009. | Adobe Photoshop Elements |
| Project Name: Avidemux | ||
| Avidemux is a free open-source program designed for multi-purpose video editing and processing, which can be used on almost all known operating systems and computer platforms. | Avidemux was originally released in 2004. Nice review of simple steps to do in Avidemux: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Avidemux | Final Cut Pro: $ |
| Project Name: Pidgin | ||
| Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin supports many features of chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. | Originally released in 1999, Pidgin is under constant development. And version 2.5.4 was released January, 2009. Releases are usually frequent and driven by user contributions, such as bug reports and patches. | AOL MSN Chat |
| Project Name: Mozilla Thunderbird | ||
| Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser. On December 7, 2004, version 1.0 was released, and received over 500,000 downloads in its first three days of release, and 1,000,000 in 10 days. | Developed by the Mozilla Foundation in July, 2003. Latest release is 2.0. | |
| Project Name: KPresenter | ||
| KPresenter is the open source presentations part of the KOffice suite. Excellent for combining text and graphics into slides either for on-screen presentation and handouts. With KPresenter you can even put you presentation on-line on the internet using the HTML slideshows functionality. | Developed by the KPresenter team, the latest release was in June 2007. | Microsoft Office Home and Student: Apple iWork |
| Project Name: Amarok | ||
| Amarok is an open source music player with a great intuitive user-interface. Play lists are easily created through drag and drop. Amarok also lets you listen to internet radio(mp3 streaming). Amarok's core features such as the unique "context browser", integrated Wikipedia lookup and lyrics download help users to find new music, and to learn more about the music they have. Other features include automatic cover and lyrics download, dynamic playlists, visualizations and podcasting. Amarok will also synchronize your music to your iPod. | Initially released in 2003, Amarok 2.0.1.1 was released in January, 2009, and is supported by The Amarok Team, originally started by Mark Kretschmann. | Real Networks |
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