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 three 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 who also want to donate to the projects we already support.
Beginning in December, 2010, Digirati started to delivery three one-hundred-dollar donations a month!
Beginning in September, 2011, entities that have two or more significant products will receive US$200. Since some entities already received their donations this year, we'll donate again to them.
Delivered donations:
2011 May 4th: GnuCash - GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.
We donated US$ 100.00 through SourceForge/PayPal.
Donate here.
2012 May 4th: 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$ 200.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2012 April 10th: Memtest86 - is an advanced memory diagnostic tool. Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret team, now working at www.canardpc.com. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date and completly reliable version of this software tool aimed at memory failures detection.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2012 April 10th: The Apache Software Foundation - The ASF provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects.
We donated US$ 200.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2012 March 1st: 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.
2012 March 1st: 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$ 200.00 directly.
Donate here.
2012 February 7th: 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.
2012 February 7th: 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$ 200.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2012 January 23rd: 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.
2012 January 23rd: Free Software Foundation - Free software is a matter of liberty not price. You should think of "free" as in "free speech".
We donated US$ 200.00 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.