2009 donations

2009 December 5th: The Linux Foundation - is the nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
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2009 December 5th: Ubuntu - is an operating system built by a worldwide team of expert developers. It contains all the applications you need: a web browser, office suite, media apps, instant messaging and much more. Ubuntu is an open-source alternative to Windows and Office.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
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2009 November 14th: 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.
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2009 November 14th: SugarCRM - A complete CRM system for businesses of all sizes. Core CRM functionality includes sales force automation, marketing campaigns, support cases, project mgmt, calendaring and more. Built in PHP, supports MySQL and SQL Server.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
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2009 October 1st: 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.
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2009 October 1st: 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.
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2009 September 2nd: b2evolution - is a powerful blog tool you can install on your own website. It includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and extends them with evolved features such as file and photo management, advanced skinning, multiple blogs support as well as detailed user permissions... Not to mention third party plug-ins!
We donated US$ 120.00 through PayPal.
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2009 September 2nd: Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) - a.k.a. mod_rails or mod_rack - makes deployment of Ruby web applications, such as those built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework, a breeze. It follows the usual Ruby on Rails conventions, such as "Don't-Repeat-Yourself".
We donated US$ 100.00 through Pledgie.com/Paypal.
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2009 August 5th: OpenOffice.org is both an office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
We donated EUR$ 69.52 through PayPal.
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2009 August 5th: eAccelerator - eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache.
We donated US$ 100.00 through SourceForge/PayPal.
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2009 July 5th: Lua Language - Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
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2009 July 5th: 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.
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2009 June 1st: SourceForge.net - The world's largest Open Source software development website.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2009 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.
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2009 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.
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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.
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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.
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