Organizations

The .NET Foundation is an independent organization to foster open development and collaboration around the .NET ecosystem. It serves as a forum for community and commercial developers alike to broaden and strengthen the future of the .NET ecosystem by promoting openness and community participation to encourage innovation.

The aim of the development of Kitodo is a stable development and user community for digital libraries and archives. This is why the Kitodo community is pursuing an open source strategy: * Kitodo is open source software, so anyone can view the source code and adapt it to his (or other) needs. * ... [More] Each Kitodo user has different resources, experiences and competences that can benefit the overall project. * By releasing such developments, the whole community profits from every investment made in Kitodo. * If their own development capacities and financial resources are not sufficient for the realization of a requirement, developmental wishes can be realized jointly - whether through a co-operative development or joint commissioning of a service provider. [Less]

The best tools for a digital workplace are often open source, and this is no accident: open source projects have had to develop smart ways of working to enable their own communities to work together effectively. Open source tools for a digital workplace are not only tools we can use to collaborate ... [More] in, but are also tools we can collaborate on. Surevine provide our customers with a responsive and professional support service, not only for the collaborative tools which make up their digital workplace, but also the open source stack on which these tools run. Surevine are active participants in a number of open source communities, boards and foundations. As you can see, we take open source and open standards seriously. [Less]

The gPodder project deals with all things podcast consumption - from a native client for Desktops and Mobile devices, over an open source web service and podcast directory to resuming players and libraries for integration of podcast functionality into other applications.

Transforming democracy in Australia We build tools to simplify the discovery and use of public data and we share them for free. OpenAustralia Foundation creates free community-based online services for the Australian public. With your help, we hope to connect effectively with our leaders & ... [More] communities through the simple act of living our everyday lives. [Less]

The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. Despite its name, LLVM has little to do with traditional virtual machines, though it does provide helpful libraries that can be used to build them. The name "LLVM" itself is not an acronym; it is the full ... [More] name of the project. LLVM began as a research project at the University of Illinois, with the goal of providing a modern, SSA-based compilation strategy capable of supporting both static and dynamic compilation of arbitrary programming languages. Since then, LLVM has grown to be an umbrella project consisting of a number of subprojects, many of which are being used in production by a wide variety of commercial and open source projects as well as being widely used in academic research. [Less]

Savoir-faire Linux is an exceptional team of more than 120 free software experts based in Montreal, Quebec City, Paris, Rennes and Lyon who respond efficiently and ingenuously to the constant evolution of information systems.

We contribute back to the medical imaging community.

FlightGear is a free flight simulator project. Among the many goals of this project are the quest to minimize short cuts and “do things right”, the quest to learn and advance knowledge, and the quest to have better toys to play with. There are a wide range of people interested and participating ... [More] in this project. This is truly a global effort with contributors from just about every continent. Interests range from building a realistic home simulator out old airplane parts, to university research and instructional use, to simply having a viable alternative to commercial PC simulators. FlightGear and its source code have intentionally been kept open, available, and free. In doing so, we are able to take advantage of the efforts of tremendously talented people from around the world. [Less]

Translate.org.za is a South African non-profit organisation focused on the localisation of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). This work has lead to a number of firsts including the first GUI word processor (OpenOffice.org) in an African language. Their focus is on the elimination of technical ... [More] barriers that have a negative impact on language. Thus creating a South African keyboard that includes all characters needed to type in all 11 official languages and adapted fonts to add characters needed by Venda. They have trained localisers across the world including: Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, Morocco, India and Brazil and have created tools to simplify software localisation. [Less]