Sweet Home 3D is powerful and easy to learn open source cross platform 3D software tool. It's a free interior design application that helps you placing your furniture on a 2D house plan, with a 3D preview! Install it and be your own architect who can create the perfect house plan that will exactly fit all your needs and preferences.

Sourcefabric took the occasion of their first ever Central American conference on July 15th 2011 to launch a new global theme contest. Designers worldwide are invited to submit themes for Newscoop, the open source CMS for news organisations. The contest is free to enter at contest.sourcefabric.org, where designers can download a sample theme and view the competition's guidelines.

WhiteHouse.gov released custom code used to develop their open platform built on Drupal. The majority of the code used in the web site of the White House is already open source, but developers are now releasing new code -distributed as Drupal modules- in order to benefit others.

Join me on a tour of my house as I show how I use open source software in nearly every room. This episode also is the first to use my new intro. This episode is NOT sponsored by the Apple iPad.

For open source and Linux, 2009 has been another year of big and surprising milestones, from the White House adopting open source technology to Microsoft submitting code for the Linux kernel."

Two months ago we invited the community to create its own unique designs to appear on Linux.com Store merchandise [...] we’ve received more than 100 submissions and today, after some grueling decision-making, we are announcing the T-shirt design contest finalists!

From now, until the submission deadline of 11:59p on July 9th, The Open Clip Art Library will be accepting user-created and remixed entries, as a part of the Free Culture Research Conference Logo Design Contest.

The goal of the MyHDL project is to empower hardware designers with the elegance and simplicity of the Python language.

"The current look of this site hasn't changed much for the past two years, apart from a few additional CSS rules being used by default in article texts. Whilst the content here is hopefully of sufficient quality to allow the current design to be tolerated I'm sure we can do better. [...] So I've decided to see what the readers can do to help, and would like to see designs from people with better skills than myself..."