Free and Open Source software Foundations Free and Open Source software Foundations The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit corporation (classified as 501(c)3 in the United States) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, USA, in June, 1999. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apache Software Foundation"
The Blender Foundation is the organization representing those developing Blender, an open-source program for three-dimensional modelling that is supported by contributions. It is headed by Ton Roosendaal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blender Foundation"
The Eclipse Foundation leads the development of Eclipse, the open-source Java application platform and IDE. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eclipse Foundation"
The Fedora Foundation is an organization to which Red Hat has planned to grant authority of the community-led Fedora Linux development project. Red Hat general counsel Mark Webbink announced the plan at the June, 2005 Red Hat Summit in New Orleans. For more information, see http://fedora.redhat.com/About/ ...more on Wikipedia about "Fedora Foundation"
On Monday, 26 April 2004, Daniel Robbins, founder of Gentoo Linux, stepped down as Chief Architect of the project. Before leaving, he set up a non-profit foundation, known as the Gentoo Foundation, and transferred all the copyrights to it. The initial board of trustees was appointed by Robbins and elections were scheduled for the following year. The membership of the foundation was initially set to be open. Upon his resignation, an article was posted to Slashdot. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gentoo Foundation"
The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, coordinating the efforts in the GNOME project. ...more on Wikipedia about "GNOME Foundation"
The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operates key infrastructure and controls trademarks and other intellectual property. It owns a taxable subsidiary called the Mozilla Corporation, which employs several Mozilla developers and coordinates releases of the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The Mozilla Foundation is based in Mountain View, California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mozilla Foundation"
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The ObjectWeb consortium is an international consortium mainly devoted to producing open source middleware, EAI, e-business, clustering, grid computing. ...more on Wikipedia about "ObjectWeb"
The Open Security Foundation is a non-profit 501c3 organization established in early 2005 to function as a support organization for Open Source security projects. It was originally conceived and founded as a support for the OSVDB project, but it's scope is evolving to provide support for numerous other projects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Open Security Foundation"
The Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) is a non-profit organization founded by Mitch Kapor whose purpose is to effect widespread adoption of free software/ open-source software. One significant project undertaken by OSAF was Chandler. As of October, 2005, forty people worked full-time, or mostly full-time, on Chandler. ...more on Wikipedia about "Open Source Applications Foundation"
Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a non-profit organization formed to help other organizations create and distribute open source software and hardware. Members of SPI include representatives from Debian, GNOME, and the Linux Standard Base project. ...more on Wikipedia about "Software in the Public Interest"
The Ubuntu Foundation was founded by Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical Ltd, on July 1, 2005 and announced by Benjamin Mako Hill. Shuttleworth provided an initial funding commitment of $10 million to keep the foundation running. In order to meet its goals, the foundation employs core members of the Ubuntu Linux community. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ubuntu Foundation"
The X.Org Foundation is the consortium holding the stewardship for the development of the X Window System. It was founded from the previous X.org site of the Open Group on 22 January 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "X.Org Foundation"
The Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to producing public domain multimedia formats and tools. Their primary focus is on the Ogg family of formats, the most successful of which has been Ogg Vorbis, an open and patent-free audio format and codec designed to compete with the patented MP3 and AAC. Current development work is focusing on Ogg Theora, an open and patent-free video format and codec designed to compete with the patented MPEG-4, RealVideo, and Windows Media Video. ...more on Wikipedia about "Xiph.Org Foundation"
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