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Someone on the radio asked where to find open source applications as a non-programmer, and someone new to open source. Might I suggest FreshMeat.net, specifically http://freshmeat.net/browse/18/

Also, for non-profit, one might talk with a the folks at FreeGeek http://www.freegeek.org/ who are all about both open source, and non-profit.

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I'm a musician using open source software to record, edit, and produce professional quality recordings. I subscribe to the Linux Audio Users mailing list, where someone posted a lament that they couldn't find any good drummers in their town. Being a drummer myself, I suggested that he try looking in cyber-space, and I got a barrage of mostly positive replies. Eventually 7 of us decided to form what became the "Packet In" virtual band http://packet-in.org/ comprised of members from the USA, Canada, Bahamas and Europe. We decided that our music itself should be "open source" and chose the Creative Commons "Non-Commercial, Attribution [required], Share Alike" licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
With the vision agreed to we boldly entered a recording contest, where bands are tasked with writing and recording an entire album during the month of February. We succeeded in doing this, and the result is on our webpage, of course available for free in final form. But, all of the individual tracks and lyrics are also available for free for anyone to use in any way to create their own music, provided that they don't sell their creation, that they give credit to the authors, and that they share their own modifications in return. We think we just might be the only band in the world that's this "open".

Thanks for the show!

P.S.: I've been using and contributing my efforts to open source since the mid-1980s. At home my wife, kids and I use Linux on all of our computers.

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