List of Israeli Open-Source Projects

Introduction

This is a list of Israeli open-source projects that used to reside on the Hackers-IL wiki.

Note: For Perl projects refer to the Israeli Perl Projects list on the Israeli Perl Mongers web-site. You can also find a list of some more Python Projects at the site of the Israeli Pythoneers.

Large or Very Large Scale Projects

• PHP - a server-side scripting language that is actively developed by Zend and many other volunteers. Zend is an Israeli company.

• MOSIX - a clustering-solution for the Linux kernel. Actively developed by Amnon Barak and his team at the Hebrew University. (Note - there may be some licensing issues)

• openMosix - a MOSIX-derivative that professes a more open development model than MOSIX. Formerly actively developed by Qlusters and many other contributors.

• Nullsoft Scriptable Install System - a tool for creating sotware installers for Windows programs. Led by Amir Szekely, who is an Israeli. See also its SourceForge “Project of the Month” review.

• The Culmus Fonts - a collection of free-as-in-speech Hebrew fonts, by Maxim Iorsh.

• “The Open Phishing Database” - an effort to create and maintain an open database of phishing sites, in addition to providing browser extensions which utilise this database. (Appears to be defunct.)

• LKVM - The Linux Kernel Virtual Machine - has been developed by Qumranet.

Medium Scale Projects

• Web Secretary - a program that scans Internet sites and reports when changes are made to them.

• Freecell Solver - an ANSI C library and a standalone command line program to solve games of Freecell and similar variants of card Solitaire. Also see this page.

• XMMS-Volnorm - a plug-in for XMMS that normalizes the sound volume between the played songs.

• XParam - a data serialisation/de-serialisation library for C++.

• Hspell - a spell checking program for Hebrew language documents.

• Database Super Converter - a cross-database abstraction layer.

• MikMod for Java - a player of MOD Files for Java.

• Jin - an open source, cross-platform, graphical client for playing chess with other people around the world.

• Syscalltrack - a Linux kernel module and accompanying user-land software for tracking system calls. (historical)

• ChkTex - a Program for checking the typographical validity of TeX documents.

• LibHdate - A small C,C++ library for Hebrew calendar, dates, holidays, and reading sequence. (python, perl and pascal bindings available)

• hocr - A Hebrew character recognition c/c++ library. Command line, GNOME and QT graphical user interfaces available.

• Krusader - An advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE led by Rafi Yanai & Shie Erlich.

• FoxyTunes and other Firefox Extensions by Alex Sirota - see also the mozilla.org page and an Ha’aretz article.

• rsyncrypto - rsync friendly file encryption. By Lingnu.

• PgOleDb - an OLE DB back-end for PostgreSQL. By Lingnu.

• Cube/Tesseract - a 4 dimensional hypercube (Tesseract) game that behaves like Rubiks Cube. By Michael Brand and Shachar Shemesh.

• Geresh - a simple, multi-lingual console-based text-editor by Mooffie.

• Vamos - On demand computing platform, based on Debian. By Hadar Weiss

• Webilder - a Flickr wallpaper downloader. By Nadav Samet.

• ELF Statifier - a program to create a completely static ELF executable out of an executable which uses shared libraries. By Valery Resnic.

• KBDE - a keyboard emulator for x86 Linux. By Valery Resnic.

• E-Book Tools - tools for accessing and converting different file formats of Electronic Books. By Ely Levy.

• Mazrim (hebrew for “Streamer”) - a Python-based project that aims to help the web-surfers listen to Israeli streaming media.

• CppCMS - a C++ Web Development Framework - by Artyom Tonkikh.

• BiDiTeX - Bi-Directional Support for LaTeX.

• Open Text Summarizer - a library and a program for Automatic Text Summarisation for many languages. See also the Linux.com feature on “Condensing with Open Text Summarizer”. By Nadav Rotem.

• Open Knesset Codebase - The source code behind the site for making the Israeli parliament’s procedures more transparent. (BSD licensed).

Small Scale Projects

• hcal - Hebrew Calendar for Gtk+

• Hdate applet - Hebrew date applet and desktop calendar using the GNOME toolkit.

• Hspell GUI - Hspell graphical user interface using the GNOME toolkit.

• Autofw - An automatic Firewall script by Baruch Even.

• SpacePong - a cool space game by Shlomi Loubaton

• pyFribidi - PyFribidi is a simple fribidi binding to python.

• sshpass - Non interactive ssh password authentication. By Shachar Shemesh.

• NetChat - a network version of the “chat” utlity. By Shachar Shemesh.

• FLMLS4PG - Field Level Multilingual Support for PG.

• radio.py - easily listen to radio stations from the command line.

Linux Distributions

• “GNU/Linux Kinneret” - a Knoppix based bootable LiveCD which was translated to Hebrew. (Defunct)

• Linbrew - a GNU/Linux distribution that is intended for new Israeli users who are looking for built-in Hebrew support and Israeli localization.

• “Kazit” - a Knoppix-derived LiveCD. (defunct).

• “Ehad” - a remastering of the Mandriva Linux distribution so it will be suitable for the Israeli audience and fit on one CD. (defunct)

• DebianHebrew - a remastering of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution so it will be suitable for the Israeli audience and fit on one CD.

• Gentoo Israel - The Gentoo distribution community in israel. Includes wiki, forums and other help for Gentoo users.

• Xorcom Rapid - Asterisk Installation from a bootable CD.

• CentOS Israel - an Israeli portal for CentOS, the Community Enterprise Operating System.

Web-sites

• The Better SCM Site - A web site for discussion and advocacy of Version Control and Source Configuration Management systems.

• Limon - Free Hebrew-English-Hebrew dictionary web site.

• Open Knesset - a site for providing a more accessible interface (and one capable of analysis) to the information in the site of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.

Licence

This document is Copyright by Shlomi Fish, 2011, and is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 Unported (or at your option any later version of that licence).

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