Open-Source Projects

In Creative Services we are a big fan of open-source projects and software. Many of our projects use open-source code. In keeping with the spirit of the open-source community we have contributed code back to the community including:

• Social Media RSS add-on to Mobile Web OSP (used as the framework for our mobile site)

Open-source projects we have used include:

• Apache: all of our web-based projects
• PHP: nearly all of our web-based projects
• MySQL: all of our database-related projects
• SimplePie: W&M mobile site, Social Stream
• CodeIgniter: W&M Events, Ampersandbox, Faculty Experts, Tribe Responses, Tribe Voices
• jQuery: Liberal Arts @ Work, Ampersandbox, W&M Events, Social Stream

We also use many open source projects for day-to-day stuff including:

• Feng - Our task management system
• ThinkUp - Used to archive and analyze activity on our Twitter, Facebook and G+ accounts
• Firefox - Web browser
• Komodo Edit - Code and text editor
• MAMP - Runs a local web server
• Mercurial - Source control management tool
• MacHg - GUI interface to Mercurial
• Open Office / LibreOffice - Free alternatives to Microsoft Office
• GIMP - Image manipulation software (an alternative to Adobe Photoshop)
• VLC - Cross-platform multimedia player
• Cyberduck - FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, Google Docs & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac & Windows
  
• FileZilla - FTP client
  
• Pidgin - chat client
• Adium - chat client