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What Open Source Projects Do You Use In Your District?

Xibo Snipe-IT oVirt OBS Studio Guacamole pwm-project Screenity Buttercup Greenshot Syncthing
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    Digital Signage for Everyone!
    Xibo - Digital Signage which is slowly being rolled out across all of our sites. (I used to be the maintainer of the Ubuntu setup script back in the day).

    #Digital Signage #Content Management System #Marketing Platform 15 social mentions

  2. Managing assets with a Google doc or a shared Excel spreadsheet is more common than you think.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Asset Management #IT Asset Management #Asset Tracking 96 social mentions

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    oVirt is a virtualization management application.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    oVirt -- Open Source Virtualization. Our district is running a CompTIA course and I am looking at deploying this on some old hardware for the class to use for VMs.

    #Virtualization Platform #Virtual Machine Management #Cloud Computing 3 social mentions

  4. Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming for Mac, Windows and Linux.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free
    OBS -- I use OBS when I am streaming Graduation/Board Meetings/etc. I use OBS Blade to control it from a tablet.

    #Video Recording #Screen Recording #Live Streaming 1061 social mentions

  5. Access your computers from anywhere. Because the Guacamole client is an HTML5 web application, use of your computers is not tied to any one device or location. As long as you have access to a web browser, you have access to your machines.
    Apache Guacamole -- Web-based remote desktop gateway. This has basically replaced mRemoteNG. I am very pleased with it.

    #Remote Desktop #Remote PC Access #Remote Control 137 social mentions

  6. PWM is an open source password self service application for LDAP directories. It's an ideal candidate for organizations that wish to “roll their own” password self-service solution, but do not wish to start from scratch.

    #Screen Recording #Password Managers #Password Management 7 social mentions

  7. The most powerful screen recorder & annotation tool for Chrome 🎥 - GitHub - alyssaxuu/screenity: The most powerful screen recorder & annotation tool for Chrome 🎥

    #Screen Recording #Screenshot Annotation #Video Maker

  8. Free and open source password manager for Windows/Mac/Linux
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    SysPass -- Password management for our team. I am looking at moving to Buttercup for this.

    #Password Management #Password Managers #Security & Privacy 9 social mentions

  9. Greenshot is a free and open source screenshot tool that allows annotation and highlighting using the built-in image editor.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    GreenShot for quick screen grabs, annotations, and more - we love it!

    #Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 116 social mentions

  10. Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Not using many, and all but one have already been listed. I've deployed synching for a few users. Been using in my homelab for a few years. It's been a great piece of software for me.

    #Cloud Storage #File Sharing #File Sharing And Backup 826 social mentions

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