2015 October 20th (early December donation): 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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2015 September 16th (early November donation; $100 November and $100 December donations combined): The Linux Foundation - is the nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world.
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2015 September 16th (early November donation): The Apache Software Foundation - The ASF provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects.
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2015 September 16th (early October donation): nginx - [engine x] is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It has been running for more than five years on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Rambler (RamblerMedia.com). According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 4.70% busiest sites in April 2010. Here are some of success stories: FastMail.FM, Wordpress.com.
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2015 September 16th (early October donation): Debian is a free operating system that provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 25,000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
We donated USD$ 200.00 through SPI/Click & Pledge.
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2015 September 16th: 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.
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2015 September 16th: freedesktop.org - is open source / open discussion software projects working on interoperability and shared technology for X Window System desktops.
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2015 June 10th (early August donation): 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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2015 June 10th (early August 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.
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2015 June 10th (early July 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.
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2015 June 10th (early July donation): 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.
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2015 June 10th: 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$ 89.00 (equivalent to US$ 100.00 at the time of the transaction) through PayPal.
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2015 June 10th: Free Software Foundation - Free software is a matter of liberty not price. You should think of "free" as in "free speech".
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2015 April 7th (early May 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.
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2015 April 7th (early May donation): 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.
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2015 April 7th: 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.
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2015 April 7th: 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.
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2015 April 7th (late March donation): 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.
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2015 April 7th (late March donation): MariaDB Foundation promotes, protects, and advances the MariaDB codebase, community, and ecosystem. MariaDB is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL.
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2015 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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2015 February 3rd: 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.
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2015 January 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.
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2015 January 4th: 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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