2016 donations

2016 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$ 200.00 through PayPal.
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2016 November 4th (early December donation; $100 November and $100 December donations combined): The Wikimedia Foundation - The Wikimedia Foundation is an international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge.
We donated US$ 200.00 through PayPal.
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2016 November 4th: The Apache Software Foundation - The ASF provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects.
We donated US$ 200.00 through PayPal.
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2016 September 15th (early October donation): Electronic Frontier Foundation From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 - well before the Internet was on most people's radar - and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.
We donated US$ 200.00 through PayPal.
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2016 September 15th ($100 September and $100 October donations combined): Debian is a free operating system that provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 25,000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
We donated USD$ 200.00 through SPI/Click & Pledge.
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2016 September 15th: LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.
We donated US$ 200.00 through SPI/Click & Pledge.
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2016 July 20th (early August donation): SPI - is a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. They encourage programmers to use any license that allows for the free modification, redistribution and use of software, and hardware developers to distribute documentation that will allow device drivers to be written for their product.
We donated US$ 200.00 through Click & Pledge.
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2016 July 20th (early August donation): freedesktop.org - is open source / open discussion software projects working on interoperability and shared technology for X Window System desktops.
We donated US$ 100.00 through SPI/Click & Pledge.
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2016 July 20th: FFmpeg - a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec - the leading audio/video codec library.
We donated US$ 100.00 through SPI/Click & Pledge.
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2016 July 20th: 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 through PayPal.
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2016 May 18th (early June donation): OpenDKIM - is a community effort to develop and maintain a C library for producing DKIM-aware applications and an open source milter for providing DKIM service.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
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2016 May 18th (early June donation): The TeX Users Group (TUG) was founded in 1980 to provide an organization for people who are interested in typography and font design, and/or are users of the TeX typesetting system invented by Donald Knuth. TUG is a not-for-profit organization by, for, and of its members, also representing the interests of TeX users worldwide.
We donated US$ 200.00 through PayPal.
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2016 May 18th: Blender Foundation - is a Dutch public benefit corporation, established to support and facilitate the projects on blender.org. Blender is a free and open source 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline ‒ modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender's API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender's future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process.
We donated EUR$ 88.62 (~ US$ 100.00) through PayPal.
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2016 May 18th: MariaDB Foundation promotes, protects, and advances the MariaDB codebase, community, and ecosystem. MariaDB is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL.
We donated USD$ 200.00 through PayPal.
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2016 May 18th: Ondřej Surý maintains a number of useful Debian/Ubuntu packages.
We donated EUR$ 88.62 (~ US$ 100.00) through PayPal.
This is the destination of the donation OSF has returned (see below).
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2016 April 6th: The OpenSSL Software Foundation (OSF) - is a corporate entity representing the OpenSSL project for the purpose of providing financial support in the form of support contracts, consulting services, and donations.
We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
OSF returned our donation on May 5th due to issues with PayPal.
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2016 April 6th: The OpenBSD Foundation is a Canadian not-for-profit corporation which exists to support OpenBSD and related projects such as OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, and LibreSSL.
We donated US$ 200.00 through PayPal.
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2016 March 4th: 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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2016 March 4th: 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.
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2016 February 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 Conservancy/PayPal.
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2016 February 3rd: 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.
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2016 December 28th (early January donation): Software Freedom Conservancy - is a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for FLOSS projects. This allows FLOSS developers to focus on what they do best -- writing and improving FLOSS for the general public -- while Conservancy takes care of the projects' needs that do not relate directly to software development and documentation.
We donated US$ 200.00 through PayPal as an annual supporter.
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2016 December 28th (early January donation): 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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