What follows was my attempt to capture the content of the southern NH roundtable discussion on open source software, held at the Manchester City Library. I may add more to these notes in the future, but at least you'll have a little idea of what was discussed. Thanks to Lichen for facilitating this roundtable in Manchester and to Bobbi who facilitated the north country discussion.

Scriblio:

• WordPress plugin, download it into plugins directory and enable.
• Acts as a blog-like interface for content from the ILS.
  
• Availability info for library materials is available for a library using III (Innovative Interfaces ILS), see Plymouth State implementation.
• Using WordPress dashboard to access the needed plugin
  
• http://about.scriblio.net/download
• Example implementation at Tamworth Library, http://tamworthlibrary.org/
• Book discussion via comments on the blog
  

Skype

• Videoconferenced with Bobbi Slossar at the "North Country" open source roundtable discussion using Skype. Skype is free.
  

Ubuntu

• Open source operating system, GUI implementation for Linux

Meebo

• Free accounts
• From one interface, you can instant message with colleagues who may have different IM clients, for example Yahoo IM, Google Chat, AOL Instant Messaging, and more.
  
• Meebo rooms: create a private or public IM room for committee work or chatting with librarians elsewhere in the building
  
• IM widgets on library web pages, allows instant messaging directly from a webpage.

 Flickr

• Online photo sharing
• Flickr badge to put on one's website, example, Manchester City Library home page 

Twitter

• Microblogging tool, limited number of characters in a post
• Create a Twitter account for your library, include stuff that doesn't really merit a blog post, but might be fun to make available nevertheless. Little tips, etc.
• Install a Twitter badge on the library website.

Del.icio.us

• Collect bookmarks online and have access to them from anywhere
• New Firefox extension provides your deliciious bookmarks in a convenient sidebar along with numerous sorting options
  

Joomla & Drupal

• Both are open source content management systems that enable you and multiple staff to update content without needing to go through a webmaster.
  
• NHLA-ITS is in the process of building a website for the Richards Free Library using Joomla.
  

Open Office

Google Docs

Google Apps

Survey Monkey