OpenCartable is an online tool for teachers and their students organized around textbooks and bibliographies of links to Web sites or uploaded files. The "todo" links (or resources) can be affected as works that the student answers and the teacher corrects and marks. The focus is on simplicity, with students only using three pages: their desk, textbooks, and works. Users are grouped in a school, and teachers manage their students through groups. The contents are written as standard DocBook files plus a LOM (Learning Object Metadata) schema that can be shared among OpenCartable servers using simple tools like rsync.
A VeniVidiVoti Library is a web site where a community of persons can democratically write texts of (m)any type(s): constitution, book of laws, novel, newspaper, petition, specifications, rules, poem, etc. The principles are the most democratic possible, directly linking the power of a library to the number and quality of persons actively collaborating. It is in fact an attempt at a political system combining representative and participative democracies. Internationalisation of every text element can also be done collaboratively.
Project is now dead Although the code is still on sourceforge, the projet itself is not improved on anymore. Instead there is now "parlement" (http://leparlement.org), a Ruby on Rail...