Welcome to Digirati's open-source software web site. You find all Digirati's contributions to Internet community here. We hope it's useful to you.
We are an Internet company that not only uses many products and services run by Internet communities, but we are also willing to help these communities. We monthly choose two projects and donate US$ 100.00 to each one.
The picking criteria are that we have to know the service or product, use it, be happy with its quality, and it must be free.
If you want to participate, donate directly to one of the listed projects below. If you'd like to help our projects, contract one of the services offered by our divisions: HostNet, 100br, and IMD.
Beginning in October, 2007, Digirati started to delivery two one-hundred-dollar donations a month!
Beginning in December, 2008, We will add a link to the page where one can make a donation to the listed projects when it is not linked on the first page of the website of the project. We hope it will help those that also want to donate to the projects we already support.
Delivered donations:
2010 July 9th: The Mozilla Foundation - is a non-profit organization that sponsors the Mozilla project and devotes its resources to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Internet. We do this by supporting the community of Mozilla contributors and by assisting others who are building technologies that benefit users around the world.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2010 July 9th: The GNOME Foundation - The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework for software developers. GNOME is part of the GNU Project, is Free Software, and developed as Open Source software. The GNOME Foundation will work to further the goal of the GNOME project: to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2010 June 2nd: Lua Language - Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2010 June 2nd: The Perl Foundation - The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code.
We donated US$ 100.00 directly.
Donate here.
2010 May 10th: ISC - Internet Systems Consortium
is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to supporting
the infrastructure of the universal connected self-organizing
Internet - and the autonomy of its participants - by developing
and maintaining core production quality software, protocols, and
operations.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2010 May 10th: The Apache Software Foundation - The ASF provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2010 April 3rd: Mambo Foundation Inc. - The Mambo Foundation is
a non-profit corporation based in Australia,
formed in August 2005 to serve as a supporting organization for
the Mambo Open Source Project.
The purpose of the Foundation is to provide support and protection
for the development of the Mambo software system.
We are modeled after similar ventures,
such as the Eclipse Foundation and the GNOME Foundation.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2010 April 3rd: The phpMyAdmin Project - phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.
We donated US$ 100.00 through SourceForge/PayPal.
Donate here.
2010 March 5th: OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users of the Internet rely on. Users of telnet, rlogin, and ftp may not realize that their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted, but it is. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. Additionally, OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH protocol versions.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2010 March 5th: WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2010 February 3rd: Policyd, is a multi-platform policy server for popular MTAs. This policy daemon is designed mostly for large scale mail hosting environments. The main goal is to implement as many spam combating and email compliance features as possible while at the same time maintaining the portability, stability and performance required for mission critical email hosting of today.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2010 February 3rd: RDesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server, capable of natively speaking its Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.
We donated US$ 100.00 through SourceForge/PayPal.
Donate here.
2010 January 5th: The Wikimedia Foundation - The Wikimedia Foundation is an international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2010 January 5th: Free Software Foundation - Free software is a matter of liberty not price. You should think of "free" as in "free speech".
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
Below is a list of papers published with the participation of people working at Digirati.
Andre Nathan and Valmir C. Barbosa, "V-like formations in flocks of artificial birds", Artificial Life 14 (2008), 179—188.
Besides being an important step in understanding the emergence of coordinated motion of flocks of birds flying in formation commonly found in nature, we consider this to be an initial step in the process of building self-organizing systems of distributed agents with no centralized control.
Abstract: We consider flocks of artificial birds and study the emergence of V-like formations during flight. We introduce a small set of fully distributed positioning rules to guide the birds' movements and demonstrate, by means of simulations, that they tend to lead to stabilization into several of the well-known V-like formations that have been observed in nature. We also provide quantitative indicators that we believe are closely related to achieving V-like formations, and study their behavior over a large set of independent simulations.