This page gathers all interesting off-site Internet links relevant to OpenCard, e.g., Consortium site, work-in-progress, download pages, list of drivers, prerequisites, etc. It also explains how to subscribe to the general OpenCard mailing-list to be kept informed of the latest news. In early 2003 a group of Opencard users on the original Opencard mailing list decided to move the existing Opencard codebase to the SourceForge open source repository to reinvigorate the development (SourceForge project page)

Web Pages

The links above are dedicated to special aspects of OpenCard (consortium, docs, work in progress, etc.).

Organizations

The web pages below are HOME-Pages of the OpenCard organizations or committees.

• OpenCard Home-Page.

• OpenCard Consortium Home-Page (with members list and contacts)

• OpenCard Consortium Technical Committee (TC) Home-Page (with miscellaneous docs and web-CVS repository). Note that access is restricted to TC members.

• Technical Committee Work-in-Progress Page (with an overview of the process of work and all RFPs/RFCs). This is a public page.

Technical Documents

The following web pages are dedicated to the OpenCard technical documentations. See also our own Technical Library in this site.

• The OpenCard Framework official FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

• An OpenCard White Paper (by Reto Hermann, Dirk Husemann - IBM Research Division-)

  Although a bit outdated (it has beeen written at the time of version 1.0), it is a good technical introduction to the internals of CardTerminal and CardService layers (it fits a need in between the general web introduction and the reference programmer's guide, see below).

• The official OpenCard Documents Page (articles, slide presentations of the framework and of products using it, etc.)

Components

The following web pages are dedicated to the distributions of the OpenCard platform or components.

• The official OpenCard Download Area (documents, presentations, and sources).

• And a very useful list of Supported Card Readers and Smart Cards

Mailing lists

The two following mailing-lists are dedicated to OpenCard. The second one is restricted to members of the TC (OpenCard Consortium Technical Committee).

• The official OpenCard general mailing list

  Note: to subscribe to opencard@opencard.org just send an email to opencard-request@opencard.org and include:

  subscribe your@email.address.com

  in the body of the mail (not the subject).

• Technical Committee: the TC mailing list

  Note: Access is restricted to the TC members. Contact the OpenCard secretary to subscribe to this list.