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:
2009 June 1st: SourceForge.net - The world's largest Open Source software development website.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2009 June 1st: NucleusCMS - Nucleus CMS is an open-source blog
management software package written in PHP, with a MySQL backend,
primarily written and maintained by Wouter Demuynck.
We donated EUR$ 70.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2009 May 1st: 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.
2009 May 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$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2009 April 1st: 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.
2009 April 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.
2009 March 1st: TheSmileTrain - One Charity. One Problem. One Goal.
We donated US$ 250.00 directly.
COMMENT: This donation celebrates the 5-year aniversary of our donation program. Thanks everyone that makes Digirati such a community!
2009 March 1st: 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.
2009 March 1st: Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
Donate here.
2008 February 1st: 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.
2008 February 1st: 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.
2009 January 2nd: 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.
2009 Januray 2nd: 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.
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.