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Open Source Family Tree Projects

• Gramps
• Gedcom-Web-View

Open Source Genealogy Projects

• Places
• FreeUKGen

Genealogy APIs

• FamilySearch API

Genealogy Standards and Standards Groups

• FHISO
• schema.org/historical-data (microformat)
• GEDCOM
• GEDCOMX

Genealogy Technology Groups and Mailing Lists

(These are mostly defunct, but their archives are worth checking out)

• BeyondGen Google Group (Defunct: "a place to talk about things like innovation, genealogy data models, user interfaces, interoperability, new software and sites, and so on")
• Evidentiary Document Model Google Group (Defunct)
• History and Genealogy Semantics Working Group (Defunct)
• Open Ancestry Google Group (Defunct)
• FSDN

Groups and Mailing List for Related Fields

• history-GIS list discussing historical GIS
• GBHGIS Mailing List discussing Great Britain Historical GIS

Genealogy Technology Political Resources

• Open Genealogy Alliance (UK)
• Open Digitization Project (UK)
• Save the SSI (US)

Genealogy Developer Blogs