Stony Brook University Resources
Office of Community Service and Service Learning
http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/communityservice/
SBU Service Project Guide
http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/communityservice/get_involved2/index.html
Links to other campus agencies that may have suitable Benevolent Computing Projects
Open Source and Freeware Development Tools
• Unity 3d:
https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download
Unity is a cross-platform IDE to develop apps for iOS, Android, and the web.
• AppInventor:
http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/get-started.html
http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/tutorials.html
AppInventor is a rapid-prototyping tool for Android developed by Google, and now managed by MIT.
• Google Web Designer:
https://webdesigner.withgoogle.com
Similar to Dreamweaver, Google Web Designer is a visual HTML5, CSS3 and JS editor.
• GNU Image Processing Program (GIMP):
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Similar to Adobe Photoshop, GIMP is a raster graphics editor.
• Inkscape:
http://inkscape.org/download/
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php
Similar to Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape is a vector (SVG) drawing tool.
• Audacity:
http://www.audacityteam.org
Similar to Garage Band, Audacity is a digital audio editor.
• Blender:
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/
Similar to Maya, Blender is a 3D modeling and animation tool.
• Google SketchUp:
http://sketchup.google.com/download/
http://sketchup.google.com/training/
Similar to AutoCad, SketchUp is a 3D modeling tool.
Content
• Creative Commons:
http://search.creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons is a source of royalty-free media files.
• Engineering for Change - Information Systems:
https://www.engineeringforchange.org/topic/view/infosystems
• Code for America - The "Peace Corps for Geeks"
http://www.codeforamerica.org/
• Sahana Software Foundation
http://sahanafoundation.org
• Social Coding 4 Good
http://socialcoding4good.org/
• Google.org
http://google.org