Software Applications

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Project Management - kanban applications

1. https://www.taiga.io - FOSS. can try on demo site.

2. https://restya.com/board - FOSS. can try on demo site.

   • Create multiple projects
   • Has a comprehensive dashboard
   • Add dependencies between tasks
   • Define start and end dates for tasks
   • Gantt chart
   • Calendar view

3. GitHub project board

4. A simple FOSS Offline Browser Based Kanban Board - my-personal-kanban

• my-personal-kanban
• About my-personal-kanban

5. https://github.com/shellyln/kanban-board-app
6. http://www.multikanban.com/
7. https://github.com/leif81/bzkanban
8. https://sourceforge.net/projects/kanbanara/

• kanban review links
  1. https://opensource.com/alternatives/trello
  2. https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/open-source-kanban-tools
  3. Watch the video What is Kanban?

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Publishing tools

1. https://www.scribus.net - a page layout program for Linux....

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Website UI

Website UI Themes settings

• Setting mutiple themes. #usability #accessibility https://mhrd.euniwizarde.com/HomePage/loadSiteHomePage/pQUukoiFyZTAe5hcvKUKNA

Website Fonts

• FuturaPT,sans-serif: Looks nice with vertically elongated letters https://www.whitehatjr.com/

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Moodle

Examples:

• Nice landing page http://moodle.niepa.ac.in/

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Screen Readers

• [ ] NVDA screen reader by NV Access
• https://www.nvaccess.org/download/
• can be downloaded free of charge by anyone. We do this because we believe everyone, especially the world’s poorest blind people deserve access to computers and a way out of poverty.
• NVDA is a free, open source, globally accessible screen reader for the blind and vision impaired.
• NVDA is only available for PCs running Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and later.

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GitHub pages/website

• [ ] Invite to open edit website page

• https://ossemproject.com/cdm/tables/intro.html

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GitHub Documentation

GitHub documentation good examples:

• [ ] https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
• [ ] https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/blob/v1.4.0/docs/architecture.md
• [ ] https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/tree/v1.4.0
• [ ] https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher

GitHub contribution guidelines

• [ ] https://github.com/covid19india/covid19india-react/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Open Source & Licences Badges

• [ ] https://github.com/ellerbrock/open-source-badges/

GitHub Actions for workflow automation

• [ ] https://github.com/features/actions

GitHub automation and integration

• [ ] https://github.com/marketplace/category/continuous-integration

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1. Computational Biology/Bio Informatics

• [ ] Programming Basic Skills - University of Cambridge Bioinformatics https://bioinfotraining.bio.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate/programming

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Open Data

Data For All https://info.dataforall.org

• DFA is a platform of loosely-coupled open source software tools for monitoring the SDGs. DFA promotes greater interoperability within the ecosystem of socioeconomic statistics by complying with international standards.
• Cited on UDISE dashboard http://udise.schooleduinfo.in/dashboard/elementary#/

Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) https://ddialliance.org/

• international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences.

International Aid Transparency Initiative https://iatistandard.org/en/

• IATI is a global initiative to improve the transparency of development and humanitarian resources and their results to address poverty and crises.
• https://d-portal.org to Search IATI data on development and humanitarian activities easily
• https://github.com/devinit/D-Portal

The Humanitarian Data Exchange

• https://data.humdata.org/

Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India (SHRUG)

• http://www.devdatalab.org/shrug

Open Data License

• https://data.humdata.org/about/license

• https://github.com/OCHA-DAP

  Data Visualizations

D3 JS - Data Driven Documentation

• https://d3js.org/
• https://github.com/d3

R Programming

• https://rstudio.com/

• https://shiny.rstudio.com/

• [ ] Introduction to R for Data Sciences

• Workshop by University of Cambridge Dec 14-17, 2020 https://e.issuu.com/anonymous-embed.html?u=bioinfocambs&d=intrordatascience_dec2020

• Introduction to R for Data Science https://ac812.github.io/intro-r-ds/index.html

• R for Data Science free book https://r4ds.had.co.nz

• An Introduction to Statistical Learning by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani https://trevorhastie.github.io/ISLR/

• https://rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/

Jupyter Notebook

• https://jupyter.org/

HistropediaJS JavaScript Library for Interactive Timelines

• https://js.histropedia.com

Stata

• https://www.stata.com
• Stata is statistical software for data science
• https://guides.library.illinois.edu/STATA

Mplus

• https://www.statmodel.com/demo.shtml
• Mplus is a powerful statistical package used for the analysis of latent variables.
• https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/mplus/seminars/mplus-class-notes
• https://www.routledge.com/Structural-Equation-Modeling-with-Mplus-Basic-Concepts-Applications-and/Byrne/p/book/9781848728394

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Website Builders

1. Word Press

• https://wordpress.org/
• https://wordpress.com/

WordPress customization companies:

	Company	Examples
1	https://thorsolutions.net/	https://www.isid.ac.in/~fafridi/ https://iwwage.isid.ac.in/
2	https://standardtouch.com/	https://indiatomorrow.net https://rafeeqemanzil.com/ https://teachinurdu.org/

2. Jkyll pages

• https://pages.github.com

3. Hugo site

• https://gohugo.io
• Based on Go language https://golang.org/
• Examples: https://gohugo.io/showcase/digitalgov/

4. Book Stack App

• https://www.bookstackapp.com
• Simple & Free Wiki Software

5. Pressbooks

• https://pressbooks.com
• Online Content & Courseware Development

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Interactive Atlas maps

1. https://www.similartech.com/compare/amazon-route-53-vs-godaddy-nameserver

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Development Related Tech Stacks

1. Development Initiatives https://github.com/devinit

• Web-Monitoring-Tool https://github.com/devinit/Web-Monitoring-Tool
• https://github.com/devinit/D-Portal

2. UN-OCHA Humanitarian Data Exchange Project

• https://github.com/OCHA-DAP

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Animated Video Maker

FOSS

Proprietary

1. https://www.doodly.com
2. https://www.toonly.com (special price $67 https://www.toonly.com/special-one-time-price-fb.php )
3. https://crello.com/
4. https://www.moovly.com/
5. https://biteable.com
6. https://vimeo.com/solutions/education-solutions

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Collaborative documentation / sharable notes

LaTeX

• [ ] https://www.sharelatex.com
• [ ] https://www.overleaf.com
• [ ] https://tex.metastudio.org

https://etherpad.org

• [ ] https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/Sites-that-run-Etherpad-Lite

Wiki

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Website Analytics

https://digital.gov

• https://digital.gov/resources/how-to-build-an-analytics-strategy/

https://awstats.sourceforge.io/

https://clustrmaps.com/

• Tracks visitors and gives stats
• Widget to embed on website - map and globe

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Web Accessibility

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

Strategies, standards, and supporting resources to help you make the Web more accessible to people with disabilities.

• [ ] Digital Accessibility Foundations Free Online Course

• https://www.usability.gov/

https://digital.gov/

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Web Interactions/User Engagment

https://disqus.com/

• The internet's favorite comment plug-in makes it easy for publishers to bring their content to life, fuel colorful discussions, efficiently moderate comments, and build engaged communities.

• Examples

  1. http://amrita.olabs.edu.in/?sub=1&brch=6&sim=246&cnt=4
  2. https://blog.okfn.org/2021/02/26/open-knowledge-justice-programme-challenges-the-use-of-algorithmic-proctoring-apps/
  3. https://www.elsevier.com/connect/authors-update/my-research-dashboard-allows-you-to-view-usage-and-citations-in-a-single-location

https://www.getadmiral.com/

• Welcome to Admiral: The Visitor Relationship Management Company.
• A single platform helping Publishers grow Visitor Relationships and Revenue.

Example:

• https://www.howtogeek.com/

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Team Play/Audience Engagement Tools

1. https://pickerwheel.com/

Picker Wheel - Spin the Wheel to Decide a Random Choice

2. https://wheeldecide.com/

Wheel Decide is a free online spinner tool that allows you to create your own digital wheels for decision making, prize giveaways, raffles, games, and more.

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Research Technology

1. Research Technology at Tufts University

• https://it.tufts.edu/researchtechnology.tufts.edu