This page is devoted to not-for-profit tools that can be used by any not-for-profit (or anyone else). It is a listing of tools that are in the public domain and freely available.
Accounting Software
- GNUCASH - This is an open source small business financial accounting software. I has double entry accounting amongst other features.
Office Software
- LIBREOFFICE - This is an open source office suite of programs including a word processor, spreadsheet program, a slide presentation program and a database program.
- SCRIBUS - This is a full featured desktop publishing program.
- LATEX - This is a high quality typesetting program specifically designed for technical and scientific documentation. It is not a word processor.
Amateur Radio
- Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine - This link takes one to various publications re: amateur radio.
- 101 Spy Gadgets For The Evil Genius : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
- Download & Streaming : The Internet Archive Software Collection : Internet Archive
- FLDIGI - a suite of digital mode software which includes ability to send pre-formatted ICS and RAC Radiogram message traffic
- WJST-X - a suite of weak signal digital mode software including FST4, FST4W, FT4, FT8, JT4, JT9, JT65, Q65, MSK144, and WSPR and ECHO for moon-bounce. Some of these modes are used for meteor-scatter. Local amateurs have been experimenting with that. These modes use a fair bit of processing power as they use algorithms that make use of Forward Error Correction (so that 8088 XT, without the math-coprocessor that you have, just will not cut it). We thank Joe Taylor, K1JT for putting these into the public domain.
- Project Jove - A NASA program to encourage STEM. One can build a radio telescope to observe the interaction of the solar wind and the aurora of Jupiter and some of its moons (Jovian decametric radio signals).
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_electronics_circuit_simulators
Operating Systems (especially for older computers)
- https://linuxmint.com/
- https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/
- https://sourceforge.net/directory/ham-radio/
- https://archive.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS
The amateur radio service has a tradition of recycling old equipment for its purposes including ex-military equipment, obsolete computers and old electronics and other things that can be re-used. The tradition is in part due to economy but it also facilitates resourcefulness, inventiveness and adaptation. This ties into an underlying philosophy of the Society - that we are the masters of technology and that technology serves us - we do not serve technology. Think of what that last statement means...