Technology should be universally accessible to everyone. Fortunately, universal accessibility is not a dream - it is a reality! There are some comprehensive open source and free software packages which will allow our students, teachers and community members to leverage the latest technology advances, even at home...

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Word Processing and Office Productivity:

• "OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute."
  
  Visit www.openoffice.org

Open Workbench:

• "Open Workbench is a robust, mature tool for project scheduling and management. It conforms to and supports the underlying ideals of project management while presenting information in a way that is intuitive and easy to learn."
  
  Visit www.openworkbench.org

Mind Mapping:

• "FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software."
  
  Visit freemind.sourceforge.net

Easy to use Desktop Operating System:

• "Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available..."
• Winner, Linux Journal Readers' Choice award, UK Linux & Open Source Awards 2005, Tux magazine Reader's Choice 2005 for Favourite Linux Distribution, and Ars Technica's best distribution award.
  
  Visit www.ubuntulinux.org

Compression and "Zip" Utility:

• Supported formats:
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  • Unpacking only: CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB
• Self-extracting capability
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Localizations for 59 languages
  
  Visit www.7-zip.org