This is a page lists the students and organizations that participated in the Google Summer of Code 2008 program. If you you are interested in the latest program information, see the main Summer of Code page.
Participating OrganizationsHomepage: http://www.abisource.com/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The AbiSource community consists of a highly skilled group of people interested in, as our tagline states, bringing Word Processing to Everyone. We do this for example by making our software, AbiWord being our flagship product, available on as many (operating) systems as possible, and adapting it for use on the One Laptop Per Child system.
ProjectsHomepage: https://adium.im/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Adium is an messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more. The Adium project is a loosely organized group of volunteers that handles almost everything related to developing, distributing, and supporting the application.
ProjectsHomepage: http://argouml.tigris.org
Preferred License: Eclipse Public License
ArgoUML is a popular open source UML modeling tool that includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages. Code generation and reverse engineering is provided for various programming languages. A plugin architecture allows this as well as other features of the product to be extended by developers outside of the core development team. Work is in progress in many areas of the project including upgrade to UML2.x and migration to the Eclipse RCP Framework.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.apache.org
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.
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Preferred License: New BSD license
atheme.org is the parent project of Audacious, Conspire, atheme-services, libmowgli, libmcs, naspro and many other open source technologies.
ProjectsHomepage: http://web.audacityteam.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
We are developers of the Audacity® sound editor which runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac. Audacity is widely used, with around 15 million downloads in the past year from Sourceforge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity). Audacity won Best Project for Multimedia in the Sourceforge 2007 Community Choice Awards (https://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/landing-pages/cca07/). Audacity has been featured widely in the media, including CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/01/12/data.doctor.records.cnn), and a reference in a New York Times article. Audacity is a flagship application of the wxWidgets (http://wxwidgets.org/) cross-platform toolkit and it is widely admired as one of the only multimedia applications that runs beautifully on all three major platforms. Care has been taken to make Audacity work with screen readers for visually impaired users. Audacity has been translated into almost 30 languages, and nearly half of Audacity users use it in a language other than English. Perhaps most importantly, Audacity has a large and vibrant developer community. There are no full-time developers, but about a dozen team members who have been with the project for several years act as the leaders of the community, setting the direction and coordinating releases, but many contributions come from the dozens of other developers who have contributed small features, bug fixes, or other patches, and hundreds of other developers who participate on the mailing lists and help test and track down bugs. In addition, dozens of volunteers help with documentation, technical support, language translation, community support, and more.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/
Preferred License: Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)
The BBC exists to enrich people’s lives with great programmes and service that inform, educate and entertain. Its vision is to be the most creative, trusted organisation in the world. We're looking for people not only interested in the cutting edge of the distribution of television programmes over the internet to our audience, but also component technologies encouraging reuse, and collaborative system, specifically interested in using our Kamaelia (mainly python) & Dirac (mainly C++) open source projects. Kamaelia is a research tool for producing anything from PVRs, collaborative whiteboards, games through to streaming servers making parallelism simple through a component approach. Dirac is a next generation wavelet based video codec. The BBC also has a number of other open source projects - which can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/. <P>Kamaelia's aim is to make it easier and more fun to make software, quickly and maintainably in a way that makes concurrency (eg multicore) easy and fun to work with. The more code that is multicore friendly, the easier we make it for everyone. We are as interested in experienced students as we are in experienced.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.blender.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The Blender Foundation is an independent organization (a Dutch "stichting"), acting as a non-profit public benefit corporation, with the following goals: * To establish services for active users and developers of Blender. * To maintain and improve the current Blender product via a public accessible source code system under the GNU GPL license. * To establish funding or revenue mechanisms that serve the foundation's goals and cover the foundation's expenses. * To give the worldwide Internet community access to 3D technology in general, with Blender as a core.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.bluez.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
BlueZ provides support for the core Bluetooth layers and protocols. It is flexible, efficient and uses a modular implementation. It has many interesting features such as: * Complete modular implementation * Symmetric multi processing safe * Multithreaded data processing * Support for multiple Bluetooth devices * Real hardware abstraction * Standard socket interface to all layers * Device and service level security support Currently BlueZ consists of many separate modules: * Bluetooth kernel subsystem core * L2CAP and SCO audio kernel layers * RFCOMM, BNEP, CMTP and HIDP kernel implementations * HCI UART, USB, PCMCIA and virtual device drivers * General Bluetooth and SDP libraries and daemons * Configuration and testing utilities * Protocol decoding and analysis tools * Audio Service witch gives support to profiles: HSP, HFP, AVDTP, A2DP, AVRCP * Input Service profiles: HID * Network Service profiles: PAN * Serial Service profiles: RFCOMM
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.boost.org
Preferred License: Boost Software License 1.0
Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful and usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use. We aim to establish "existing practice" and provide reference implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the C++ Standards Committee's Library Technical Report (TR1) as a step toward becoming part of a future C++ Standard. More Boost libraries are proposed for the upcoming TR2.
ProjectsHomepage: http://brlcad.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
BRL-CAD is represented and developed by a consortium of individuals in the open source community from industry, academia, government, and private industry from all over the world. Our organizational interests in BRL-CAD vary across the project's primary focus areas including computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), solid modeling, and computer graphics. We have about a half-dozen core developers that are active on a daily basis with the project and several dozen community contributors, modelers, artists, and engineers. Our developers predominantly interact over IRC and through our various mailing lists. The BRL-CAD package is a powerful cross-platform open source solid modeling system that includes interactive solid geometry editing, ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, image and signal-processing tools, system performance analysis tools, a robust high-performance geometry engine, and much more. Currently standing at more than a million lines of code, 400 utilities, and hundreds of man-hours investment, BRL-CAD has more than 20 years of development history (since 1979) and is in production use by more than 2000 organizations around the world (this was our last statistic before we went open source and became untraceable). As useless bragging rights and fun statistics, the Ohloh source code statistics site recognized BRL-CAD as having "the world's oldest source code repository". Ohloh is a site that tracks the commit activity for more than 12,000 open source repositories performing in-depth historical analyses and commit tracking. When they reviewed the project histories for all projects in their database, BRL-CAD came in as the oldest project that has had continuous uninterrupted activity even edging out Emacs and GCC: http://www.ohloh.net/blog/worlds_oldest_source_code_repositories Released as open source software just a little over three years ago, BRL-CAD has received considerable attention from the CAD and solid modeling communities. We've had more than 230K downloads within last 12 months alone and our download rate is increasing. As far as we're aware, BRL-CAD is actually the only open source solid modeling system available with production-quality capabilities under an OSI-approved license. The BRL-CAD user-base is primarily composed of individuals in the CAD industry where the modeling requirements are fundamentally different to those of content modelers (e.g., Blender) that are used for animation, gaming, and film purposes. Where content modelers include commercial products like Maya, Softimage, and 3D Studio; BRL-CAD's primary competitors are in an entirely separate industry where commercial products like Unigraphics, Solidworks, Pro/Engineer, CATIA, and AutoCAD dominate. See http://ftp.brlcad.org/Industry_Diagram.png for a visual overview of where BRL-CAD fits within the various CAD industries. Our goal is to become the best solid modeling system available by encouraging collaboration throughout the CAD communities, improving recognition that we're a production-quality F/OSS project, providing effective/better user-friendly tools, and by continuing to work hard at implementing the features needed by our users.
ProjectsHomepage: http://bzflag.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
BZFlag is a free online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game that is maintained by an active community of individuals distributed all around the world.. It is one of the most successful and sustained cross-platform open source games ever with an active developer, administrative, and player community. There have been more than a million downloads in the last five years alone and our user base presently consists of more than 200 players online at any time of day or night. The project has actually become more popular over the years as we continue to improve and enhance the game. BZFlag has been under active development since 1992. Our organization is presently comprised of a rather disparate group of individuals that work on BZFlag because they love the game and the community that surrounds it. There are presently 71 individuals entrusted with access to BZFlag core resources including 46 individuals that have committed source code modifications over the project's life span. Our developer base presently consists of 9 documented core developers that have made extensive contributions to the game and remained active over many years, along with about a dozen apprentice-level developers that are coming up in the ranks, and about two dozen peripheral/casual developers, extension developers, and web integration programmers. Additionally, there are several dozen trusted staffers, server operators, and graphic artists that assist in the day-to-day operations needed by the game for keeping servers up and running, providing server list services, designing artwork, providing network statistics, image hosting, web hosting, and much more. All of our project developers almost exclusively collaborate on the #bzflag Freenode IRC channel, which is the central hub for most of our development discussions, decision planning meetings, game operations, and network infrastructure administration. We operate via a benevolent dictatorship combined with a meritocracy that strives for consensus between the core developers and other involved community members. Extensive discussions are held for any changes to BZFlag that affect the game's traditional "spirit", mood of gameplay, tone of the user environment, and types of interactions possible in the game. These discussions also include considerations whenever there are new features being added such as new flags, enhanced graphics, or changes to the gameplay. We also serve as a support arm to our user community assisting them with anything from how to get started playing to providing assistance with setting up their own server or even helping them write their own new extensions to the game. From IRC, we administer network operations for the approximate 18638 registered player base and for the tens of thousands of unregistered players that engage in more than 10000 daily player sessions across more than 250 public servers. As we are a globally distributed network-oriented game, we also maintain the public server listings, provide player tracking, network statistics, global authentication, user and group management, abuse and ban controls, player conflict resolution, competitive league management, and user community support.
ProjectsHomepage: http://cairographics.org/
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL (through glitz), Quartz, and XCB.
ProjectsHomepage: http://creativecommons.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization which provides free, flexible copyright licenses for creative works. Creative Commons' mission is two-fold: to provide tools for legally expressing a "some rights reserved" approach to copyright and to reduce the transaction cost of re-using works covered by copyright. Both portions of the mission are strongly supported by our technology, including machine-readable representations of the licenses.
ProjectsHomepage: http://ccan.ozlabs.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
A random band of hackers, armed with a mailing list, an IRC channel and a code repository, trying to make C programming more fun. To that end, we are trying to create a C repository of code similar to Perl's CPAN.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.christmasfuture.org
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
Christmas Future is an NGO using technology to help alleviate extreme poverty through integrated community development. Through our open source donation engine called DonorTrust, we connect donors with on-the-ground implementing partners to add transparency and feedback to the development process. DonorTrust helps people to see that their choices impact the world. Our technology also allows people to give what amounts to an online gift card, which recipients can use to support development projects. Because DonorTrust is open-source, the development of this engine will help many NGOs to more effectively raise money for their good causes.
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Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
CLAM (C++ Library for Audio and Music) is a project that aims at developing a full-featured application framework for Audio and Music Applications. It offers a conceptual metamodel as well as many different tools for that particular domain. One of its most relevant features is the availability of a visual building dataflow application that allows to develop rapid prototypes without writing code. The project started 7 years ago and, among other highlights, it won the ACM award to the Best Open Source Multimedia Software in 2006. The framework just published its release 1.2. CLAM is coordinated and hosted at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).
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Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
The Codehaus is an open-source project repository with a strong emphasis on Java, focussed on quality components that meet real world needs. We believe in open source as a pragmatic approach to software development, and all our projects are business-friendly in terms of licensing. Enjoy your stay at the haus!
ProjectsHomepage: http://coppermine-gallery.net/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
We develop Coppermine Photo Gallery, which is an advanced, user-friendly, picture gallery script with built-in support for other multi-media/data files. Coppermine uses PHP, a MySQL database, and either the GD library (version 1.x or 2.x) or ImageMagick to generate and keep records and file information of all thumbnails, intermediate, and full-sized images. Coppermine was developed by Grégory Demar until he retired in 2003, when the current dev team inherited the project and registered it with SourceForge.
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Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
We're a young company into low-level open source software business. Founded 3 years ago with a rich background in Linux distributions, open source and embedded systems, and a lot of fun moving OSS ahead. We offer mentorship for coreboot (aka LinuxBIOS) projects. Coreboot is an Open Source firmware (BIOS) implementation that starts your computer in (almost) no time while leaving you the full control over your hardware. So if you have fun touching 'the real iron' with both hands, don't hesitate to apply now. If you are interested in LinuxBIOS and want to help, you don't need lowlevel or assembler know how to participate. Just suggest an idea or choose one from the list.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.crystalspace3d.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D Engine and Game Framework. It is very portable and runs on GNU/Linux, Windows, and MacOS/X.
ProjectsHomepage: http://cscs.umich.edu
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) is a broadly interdisciplinary unit within the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. CSCS's mission is to encourage and facilitate research and education in the general area of nonlinear, dynamical and adaptive systems. Participating faculty represent nearly every college of the University. The Center is based on the recognition that many different kinds of systems which include self-regulation, feedback or adaptation in their dynamics, may have a common underlying structure despite their apparent differences. Moreover, these deep structural similarities can be exploited to transfer methods of analysis and understanding from one field to another. In addition to developing deeper understandings of specific systems, interdisciplinary approaches should help elucidate the general structure and behavior of complex systems, and move us toward a deeper appreciation of the general nature of such systems.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.debian.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
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Preferred License: MIT license
Open Source community creating an implementation of the Dirac video codec.
ProjectsHomepage: http://djangoproject.com/
Preferred License: BSD License
Django is a high-level Python Web framework originally developed at the Lawrence-Journal World. Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote it. It lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.dojotoolkit.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
The Dojo Foundation promotes the adoption of Dojo and provides a healthy environment for JavaScript engineering of every stripe. Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. It allows you to easily build dynamic capabilities into web pages and any other environment that supports JavaScript sanely. You can use the components that Dojo provides to make your web sites more useable, responsive, and functional. From humble beginnings in 2004, in November 2007 we released v1.0 after some major refactoring, and this has led to much wider interest and uptake. We take being professional seriously around issues like internationalization, accessibility, cross-browser support, licensing, and IP. Dojo has many active users - 10,000 registered in the last year, considerable corporate uptake (Sun, IBM, AOL, among many others) and a number of people are paid to work on Dojo, including many of our core committers.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.dragonflybsd.org
Preferred License: New BSD license
DragonFly BSD, originally branched from FreeBSD on 2003, is working on a new approach to SMP and other kernel systems to enable an open source Single System Image operating system. Along the way, we've been picking up improvements from other BSDs and generally streamlining the underlying 30-year-old BSD code base, with a preference towards making systems less complex and easier to maintain.
ProjectsHomepage: http://drupal.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Drupal is a web content management system and web application framework written in PHP. It is also a vibrant, growing, and fun community of programmers, activists and communicators. The core Drupal software is a framework to power community driven web site software, and includes features such as internationalization, tagging, and an extensive roles and permissions system. The highly extensible architecture supports well over a thousand sub-projects in the form of contributed modules and themes, so there's something here for everyone.
ProjectsHomepage: www.dspace.org
Preferred License: New BSD license
DSpace is an open source software platform that allows any organization to manage, preserve and provide open access to their digital works. The platform has a vibrant WW community of developers and is used by over 300 academic and cultural organizations to manage and provide access to their own creative works. The platform enables the sharing and reuse of these materials with the hope of advancing research and knowledge for all.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.eclipse.org
Preferred License: Eclipse Public License
Eclipse is an open source community with projects focused on building open development platforms with extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes to build, deploy and manage software across the lifecycle. A large and vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities, research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse platform.
ProjectsHomepage: https://www.eff.org/
Preferred License: New BSD license
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), founded in 1990, works in the public interest to protect fundamental civil liberties in the digital age. The Internet and other communication technologies can herald the most liberating era of human history --- or the most regulated and controlled. The EFF works to defend our basic rights to free speech, privacy and free and open communications, and advocates for sane policies on digital copyright, software patents and electronic voting. EFF is a membership supported organization with 27 full-time staff. We are working closely with The Tor Project (torproject.org), a free- software non-profit project to build an anonymity toolkit used by individuals, companies, governments, and law enforcement around the world. The Tor network has grown since its start in 2002 to several hundred thousand active users pushing over 1Gbps of traffic. There are four full-time Tor developers, plus several dozen other volunteers who help out on a daily basis. This proposal is a combined submission from EFF and Tor.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.enlightenment.org
Preferred License: New BSD license
The Enlightenment Project is an open source project dedicated to providing advanced graphical libraries, tools, and environments. Currently, the project is made up of three different components: Enlightenment DR16, Enlightenment DR17, and the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. While we are best known for the Enlightenment Window Manager itself, there is a long history of providing advanced libraries and tools to support the window manager and other applications, such as Imlib, Imlib2, and FnLib, which extend far beyond the window manager itself in scope. Presently, in development towards the DR17 Desktop Shell, we have created an entirely new set of libraries and tools that provide more power and flexibility than any other group of graphical libraries available: the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. These libraries offer such functionality as an X11 canvas library (Evas), X11 abstraction layer (Ecore), and an canvas based interface layout library (Edje) that allows separation of interface and application logic (thus making every application that uses it "skinable"). These libraries are extremely fast and lightweight. So much so they have been adopted by many other organizations. Most notably, organizations such as Openmoko, Maemo, Terrasoft, the Canola project, and more.
ProjectsHomepage: http://code.google.com/p/es-operating-system/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
We are creating a new pure component operating system, named ES, in which programmers can easily and seamlessly control software components running on the operating system using ECMAScript. This project was started by two members at Nintendo largely affected by Rob Pike's "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" talk in 2000. And now this project is hosted in Google Code under the copyright of both Google and Nintendo in hope we can reach more people worldwide.
ProjectsHomepage: http://etherboot.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Etherboot Project creates Open Source software that allows computers to be booted over a network. This is useful in a variety of applications such as schools, businessess, computing clusters, kiosks, and many other situations which benefit from centralized administration and maintainance of OS images.
ProjectsHomepage: http://fedoraproject.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The Fedora Project develops and maintains the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution, one of the most successful free Linux distributions. The Fedora Project is managed by Red Hat and driven by a large community of users and developers. Its sister project, JBoss.org, is another project of Red Hat responsible for several leading open source Java projects, including JBossAS, Mobicents, JBossCache and JBossESB.
ProjectsHomepage: http://ffmpeg.org/
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
FFmpeg is the leading open source multimedia processing library. Nearly any open source program you use that can play a sequence of video images accompanied by sound is probably using FFmpeg to do so. It can decode the most prominent multimedia formats ever created, whether open or proprietary, and can encode to the most important formats as well. As a novelty, FFmpeg can also decode a vast array of impossibly obscure multimedia formats and remains essential for legacy multimedia files (no codec is too old or obscure for this project). Anecdotally, FFmpeg just might be the leading multimedia processing library in existence, as many proprietary applications use it as well (as permitted by the LGPL license). There are many stealth uses as well. YouTube does not advertise how their backend conversion software operates. However, independent, empirical research has demonstrated that YouTube uses FFmpeg to convert videos.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.FreeBSD.org
Preferred License: New BSD license
The FreeBSD Project is a large, mature, and yet relatively tightly nit organization. The FreeBSD Project began 15 years ago in 1993, but is based on the work at Berkeley CSRG with open source revision history going back 30 years to 1978. There are currently over 300 developers with write access to the main revision control system, and hundreds more with access to our Perforce servers for experimental and third party development (this is also where our summer of code students have worked in previous years). We have an active mentoring program to bring all new developers into our community, not just those that we introduce to FreeBSD through the GSoC. There are hundreds of mailing lists, blogs, irc channels, and user groups all detailed on our main website. FreeBSD offers a complete operating system in which students can work, not just a kernel or specific userland stack. This allows for interesting work that spans the userland/kernel boundary, and allows students to build up and package complete modified FreeBSD operating system CDs/DVDs to distribute as ISOs for testing, for example. Relevance to Google : Google has many tens of thousands of FreeBSD-based devices helping to run its production networks (Juniper, Force10, NetApp, etc..), MacOS X laptops, and the occasional FreeBSD network monitoring or test server. Research in FreeBSD security, networking, and other areas has also regularly been adopted recently and throughout its 30 year history to other open source systems. The most recent example from this month is perhaps the JEMalloc allocator which was introduced in FreeBSD 2 years ago and has recently been imported into the Firefox browser, also widely used at Google. This is an exciting time for FreeBSD as Cisco, Juniper, NetApp, Force10, and many other embedded networking device companies are moving towards FreeBSD (Cisco) or upgrading to more modern FreeBSD releases (6.0/7.0 for all the rest). We are also seeing these companies hire open source liaisons and making a concerted effort to contribute more code back.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.fsij.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The Free Software Initiative of Japan (FSIJ) is a Non Profit Organization for Free Software Movement in Japan. FSIJ hosted CodeFest, Free Software Symposium, 5th International GPLv3 Conference, and RMS talks. Since 2006, FSIJ joines Google SoC.
ProjectsHomepage: http://gallery.sf.net
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The Gallery Project produces Gallery, the next generation of open source photo sharing web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Gallery to create personalized photo albums on their websites.
ProjectsHomepage: http://gcc.gnu.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The GNU Compiler Collection includes the compilers used for all free operating systems for C, C++, Java, Fortran, and Ada.
ProjectsHomepage: http://geda.seul.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The gEDA Project is a confederation of roughly 25 developers who work on CAD tools (programs) used for electronic design. The tools are designed to work on Linux and other unices. Some of the tools share a link library, and some are stand-alone. In general, users invoke the programs individually from the unix command line (or a desktop icon). However, we are currently developing a "project manager" which will tie many of the tools into a common entry point. Amongst the tools in the project are: gschem -- a program used to draw schematic diagrams of circuits. pcb -- a program used to design PCBs (printed circuit boards). gerbv -- a program used to view and validate PCBs. Gnucap -- a program used to analyze and simulate analog circuits (equivalent to SPICE). Icarus Verilog -- a program used in design and analysis of logic circuits. gwave -- a program used to view the output of Gnucap, ngspice, and other circuit simulators. In all, the gEDA Project encompasses around 18 programs which may be used in electronic design. A full list of our tools may be found here: http://geda.seul.org/tools/index.html Our CAD tools are used by students, educators, hobbiests, small consultants, and even in engineering groups in larger companies.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.geeklog.net/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Geeklog is an open source CMS/weblog application, written in PHP and using MySQL or MS SQL as the database. The current core development group consists of five people, with a further 10-20 people contributing source code, plugins, and other add-ons on a regular basis. The community on www.geeklog.net hovers at around 150 active users, i.e. those that log into the site and participate in discussions. We also have some active international communities in Japan, Germany, Poland, and France. The Japanese community even published a book about Geeklog. While Geeklog may be one of the lesser known CMS, it does power a few high-profile sites, e.g. Groklaw. We also know that it is used quite a bit in company intranets and as a web application framework.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.genmapp.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
We are an academically based organization that develops and supports GenMAPP (Gene Map Annotator and Pathway Profiler), a visualization and analysis tool for biological data. GenMAPP illustrates the relationships between various genes and proteins to help researchers understand their data in terms of connected, biological pathways. Over 18,000 people from >70 countries have registered to download the GenMAPP program. There are over 360 publications that reference GenMAPP or use GenMAPP to display data in the context of biological pathways. GenMAPP is 100% open source. All new development is in Java, MySQL, Derby, XML, and Web technologies such as MediaWiki in collaboration with the UCSF library, BiGCaT Bioinformatics, and the Cytoscape Consortium. Our development team is composed of individuals who are both biologists and programmers, providing a unique perspective on building and using open source tools.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.gentoo.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.gimp.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. At over ten years old, its history merges itself with the development of a Free Desktop Environment, having first provided the basis for projects such as gtk+, gutemprint and other graphic programs. It is a free program distributed under the GPLv2 suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It is usually pre-installed in all major Desktop GNU/Linux distributions and available in other Platforms such as Microsoft's Windows. GIMP is a Free Software, high-end photo manipulation application that supports creating original art from images; a high-end application for producing icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements and also works as a platform for programming cutting-edge image processing algorithms, by scientists and artists. With the advent and spreading of digital pictures and imagery, being able to edit and change photos in a computer became a major task on the daily usage of personal computers. Everyone having at home tools far more powerful than those available to professional photographers for decades. Most pictures hardware do offer a gratis program with basic picture manipulation facilities - but one of the main purposes of Free Software is exactly to end the artificial restrictions of features and capabilities of any software. Therefore, GIMP provides a fully featured image manipulation environment available for everyone, and we have a goal of making it each time richer. Currently, GIMP is undergoing a deep change in its rendering core, which is being replaced by the Generic Graphics Library - GEGL. GEGL while being developed by members of the GIMP team and community and is also a modular and independent graph based image processing framework, with bindings to other languages. It aims to provide GIMP with a lot of currently missing high-end features such as non-destructive editing, deep color depth support, HDR, and macro recording.
ProjectsHomepage: http://git.or.cz/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
As Git approaches its third anniversary, it is now the revision control system of choice for many of the largest and most successful open source projects, including the Linux kernel and at least eight other Google Summer of Code 2007 projects: ikiwiki, One Laptop Per Child, Samba, Thousand Parsec, The Wine Project, VideoLAN, XMMS2, and X.org. This achievement is the product of the lively Git development community, a loose-knit team of developers, technical writers, and end users with a passion for high quality open-source development.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.globus.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
The Globus Alliance (http://www.globus.org/) is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the "Grid," which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy. Since its creation in 1996, the Globus Alliance has been committed to developing open source software, although development was initially carried out by a small number of university research groups. However, since transitioning in 2005 to an open governance model (http://dev.globus.org/), derived from Apache's Jakarta project, the scope of participants has widened to include many more groups around the world, including companies and individuals. Globus currently hosts more than 20 projects, actively developed by a community of more than 100 committers, and spanning a variety of technology concerns on grid systems: common runtime, data management, information management, security, and documentation. Additionally, members of the Globus community can propose new projects which, after an "incubation" process (http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Incubator/Incubator_Process) can escalate to full Globus projects. There are currently more than 25 projects in incubation.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.gnome.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.gnu.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is entirely free software: the GNU system.
ProjectsHomepage: www.gnumeric.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
A spreadsheet. Free, Fast, Accurate: Pick any 3.
ProjectsHomepage: www.gnustep.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
GNUstep is a cross-platform, object-oriented framework for desktop application development. GNUstep enables developers to rapidly build sophisticated software by employing a large library of reusable software components.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.google.com/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
Homepage: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
GStreamer is the de-facto standard multimedia framework for Unix and Linux systems. Thanks to recent advances GStreamer is also gaining traction as a cross-platform multimedia system with adopters such as Songbird and Pioneer.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.hackystat.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
The mission of Project Hackystat is to provide a framework for collection, analysis, visualization, interpretation, annotation, and dissemination of software development process and product data. Work on Hackystat began in 2001 as a research activity in the Collaborative Software Developmnt Laboratory (http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/) in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences (http://www.ics.hawaii.edu) at the University of Hawaii (http://www.hawaii.edu). From 2001 to 2006, the project grew a substantial code base (approximately 350,000 LOC), user community (over 800 users of the "public" Version 7 Hackystat server, with an undetermined additional number of users on private servers), and developers (dozens of contributors to the code base from approximately 20 academic and industry sites). A significant number of publications occurred during this time (a partial list of which is available at http://code.google.com/p/hackystat/wiki/Publications). In addition, there was one commercial, non-open source spin-off based upon a subset of this project called Sixth Sense Analytics (http://www.6thsenseanalytics.com/). A summary of Project Hackystat's release history is available at http://code.google.com/p/hackystat/wiki/History. In 2007, we made the decision to reimplement the code base almost entirely from scratch as a coordinated set of RESTful web services. This effort took nine months, and Version 8 has been in public release since January, 2008. We also decided to move the hosting of the project from the University of Hawaii to Google Project Hosting. The old site is still available at http://xenia.ics.hawaii.edu, although it is no longer maintained.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.haiku-os.org
Preferred License: MIT license
We are a project dedicated to the creation of a new open source operating system designed from the ground up for desktop computing called Haiku. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku aims to provide users of all levels with a personal computing experience that is simple yet powerful, and free of any unnecessary complexities. Haiku is supported by Haiku Inc., a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization founded with the purpose of promoting our project.
ProjectsHomepage: http://haskell.org
Preferred License: New BSD license
Haskell.org is the community focus for explaining, supporting, and promoting the open-source programming language Haskell. Haskell is an advanced purely functional programming language. The product of more than twenty years of cutting edge research, it allows rapid development of robust, concise, correct software. With strong support for integration with other languages, built-in concurrency, debuggers, profilers, rich libraries and an active community, Haskell makes it easier to produce flexible, maintainable high-quality software.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Mercurial is a state of the art distributed version control system written mostly in Python (some performance-sensitive parts are written in C). We have a small band of developers and some big projects using our software (Mozilla, OpenJDK, OpenSolaris). We are part of the Software Freedom Conservancy and would like to find some more people to help us develop our software in the DVCS competition.
ProjectsHomepage: http://hurd.gnu.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The Hurd project is a loose community of people sharing a common interest in developing the Hurd kernel, which is the official kernel of the GNU operating system (see http://gnu.org ). When the Hurd was originally started in 1990, it was the last missing major component for a complete GNU system. Today Linux and other free kernels are available to fill this gap, and the combination of GNU and Linux (often incorrectly called just "Linux", see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html ) is in wide use. However, the Hurd is still interesting due to its unique design, better fitting the GNU philosophy than traditional monolithic kernels like Linux. The GNU GPL guarantees that all users of software published under this license get the legal permission to adapt the software they are using according to their wishes, and also get the source code and other tools necessary to put this permission to use. However, in traditional operating systems, the kernel and related low-level system software are protected from normal users, and cannot be easily modified; only the system administrator has power over these. The Hurd offers special mechanisms that allow any user to change almost all of the system functionality he uses, without affecting the rest of the system, and thus easily (at runtime) and without any special permissions. This ability to run subenvironments more or less independant from the rest of the system, can be classified as a very sophisticated lightweight virtualization approach. (See http://tri-ceps.blogspot.com/2007/10/advanced-lightweight-virtualization.html ) To offer these possibilities, the Hurd uses a true multiserver microkernel architecture. That makes it quite unique: The Hurd is the only general-purpose multiserver microkernel system in development today that is nearly ready for everyday use, and offering almost perfect UNIX compatibility. (More than half of the packages in the Debian repository are available for the Hurd.) All other existing true microkernel systems are either research projects not nearly complete enough for actual use, or limited to embedded systems and other special purposes, or both. Marcus Brinkmann and Neal Walfield from the Hurd project are working at the bleeding edge of microkernel operating system research. They have been in contact with the most distinguished researchers in that field from the L4 ( http://l4hq.org/ ) and EROS ( http://www.eros-os.org/eros.html ) / Coyotos ( http://www.coyotos.org/ ) microkernel operating system groups, and have written a couple of research papers ( http://walfield.org/ ).
ProjectsHomepage: http://hypertriton.com/
Preferred License: New BSD license
We are a small R&D firm based in Quebec (with an office in the US). For the past 10 years, we have allowed developers to work full-time on free open-source projects, such as Agar (a portable GUI toolkit), FreeSG (a scene graph / computational geometry / constraint solver / math library), and more recently, open-source 3D CAD/CAM suite called cadtools. We focus mainly on engineering and scientific applications, but our main source of revenue being hosting, we also maintain a set of daemons and tools for high-availability server arrays.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.icu-project.org/
Preferred License: X.Net License
ICU is a collaborative effort between Google, IBM, Apple and several other companies that produces a multi platform and multi programming language internationalization library. The goal of the library is to provide implementation of the Unicode standard and a set of internationalization related tools and APIs.
ProjectsHomepage: www.ingres.com
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Ingres is a leading provider of open source information management services to the enterprise. Born out of Berkeley and built on over 25 years of technology investment, Ingres is a leader in software and service innovation, providing the enterprise with proven reliability combined with the value and flexibility of open source. The company’s partnerships with leading open source providers further enhance the Ingres value proposition. In particular, Ingres is working with leading business intelligence providers to deliver appliances that combine the benefits of open source with advanced reporting and data analysis capabilities. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres also has major development, sales and support centers throughout the world, supporting thousands of customers in the United States and internationally.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.inkscape.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The Inkscape project develops the inkscape SVG editor, one of the best open source drawing programs available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and other platforms.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.archive.org
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Internet library, offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to digital-format historical collections. The Internet Archive is best known for its 'Wayback Machine' access to over 10 years' of public web site archives; its leading role in the Open Content Alliance mass book digitization effort; and its free audio and video collections, including thousands of live music shows. In partnership with libraries around the world (http://netpreserve.org), the Internet Archive's web group has developed open source software in Java to help organizations build their own web archives, including the Heritrix crawler, the Wayback archive browser, and NutchWAX tools for using Nutch/Lucene for web archive full text search.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.internet2.edu/
Preferred License: New BSD license
Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that together facilitate the development, deployment and use of revolutionary Internet technologies.
ProjectsHomepage: http://jatovm.sf.net/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
Jato is a project to build a JIT compiler on top of Jam VM which is a free Java virtual machine.
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Preferred License: Common Public License 1.0
Jikes RVM (Research Virtual Machine) provides a flexible open testbed to prototype virtual machine technologies and experiment with a large variety of design alternatives. It differs from other JVM projects in that it is written in Java whilst having a full adaptive optimization framework. It is a vehicle for testing a wide range of ideas including compiler research, memory management research, Java operating systems, computer architecture, and aspect oriented programming to name a few. Over 150 research papers have been published which use Jikes RVM.
ProjectsHomepage: www.joomla.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
We are an open source web based content management system.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.k-3d.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
K-3D has produced free-as-in-freedom 3D CGI tools designed to scale to the needs of professionals for nearly 15 years.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.kde.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
KDE is an international technology team that creates integrated Free/Open Source Software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. Building on the cross-platform capabilities of Trolltech®'s Qt®, KDE4's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X.
ProjectsHomepage: http://lindenlab.com
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Linden Lab is a privately-held software company founded in 1999 to create Second Life, a world where individuals jointly inhabit a 3D landscape and build the world around them. Second Life has a rapidly growing population of Residents from around the globe, who are creating and inhabiting a virtual world of their own design. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe. In January 2007, Linden Lab made the Second Life viewer source code available under the GPL, enabling developers to download the Second Life end user software and make modifications and additions to the code. Since that time, alternate implementations of the simulator (server) code have been created, and a working group has been formed to codify and eventually standardize the client-server protocol (the Second Life Grid Architecture Working Group)
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.linux-foundation.org/
Preferred License: MIT license
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007 as a merger of the former Free Standards Group (FSG) and the former Open Source Developer Lab (OSDL), the LF sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully compete with closed platforms. More: https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/About
ProjectsHomepage: http://lispnyc.org/
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Lisp NYC is a group devoted to the advocacy and advancement of professional software developers in their adoption of Lisp-based and functional programming technologies such as Common Lisp, Scheme, Arc, Clojure, etc. We accomplish this through targeted programs of education and outreach well as regular monthly meetings, email lists, development projects spirited conversation with NY metro area Lisp professionals.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.llvm.org
Preferred License: University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
LLVM is an open source compiler infrastructure project, providing aggressive static compilation as well as JIT code generation. LLVM supports optimization and code generation for many architectures.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.macports.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
MacPorts is a ports collection and packaging system for Mac OS X. We have about 4500 active ports, many of which accept multiple variants. MacPorts is one of the primary means by which open source software is compiled for and installed onto Mac OS X, and is thus a primary interface between Mac OS and the rest of the open source world.
ProjectsHomepage: http://metabrainz.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The MetaBrainz Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit headquartered in San Luis Obispo, CA that operates the MusicBrainz project. MusicBrainz is an open source/open data project to collect vast quantities of data about music and make it available to the public.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.cs.vu.nl/en/sec/cs/
Preferred License: New BSD license
MINIX 3 is a small, modular, multiserver operating system aimed at being highly reliable, fault tolerant and self healing. Only about 5000 lines of code run in kernel mode. The rest runs as a collection of user processes, mostly separate processes for each device driver and server. If a driver fails, it is automatically replaced by a fresh copy, without user intervention (or even knowledge) and without affecting running programs. Few other systems can survive fatal errors in some critical system components without even missing a beat. The goal of reliable systems will have been achieved when no computer has a RESET button and no user has ever experienced a crash and does not know anyone personally who has ever experienced a crash. MINIX 3 supports the POSIX interface and about 500 of the standard UNIX programs have been ported to it, including X11, gcc, perl, python, ghostview, mplayer, the GNU core utilities, and many more. There is also a a simple GUI (EDE). Nevertheless there is much more to do. You can help.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.mixxx.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Mixxx is a cross-platform, open source DJ mixing application suitable for amateur and live professional use. Mixxx began as one of the earliest digital DJ solutions, and as a result has attracted a large worldwide userbase. Our continuing mission is to provide these users with an open source DJ application with features that rival and lead proprietary commercial solutions such as Traktor, MixVibes, and Virtual DJ.
ProjectsHomepage: http://moinmo.in/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The MoinMoin project is developing a popular wiki engine in Python. Wikis are getting more and more important for the communication infrastructure of OSS groups all over the world. Especially groups like Apache, Ubuntu, Python, Debian, Fedora, Xen, KernelNewbies, linuxwiki.org (de), etc. are using MoinMoin to keep the contact going with their users and developers and for documentation. We have some few long-time core developers, some more casual developers and quite many developers contributing plugin code. Additionally, many people work on the wikis improving documentation and translating it to about 40 languages.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.mono-project.com
Preferred License: MIT license
We implement the open source implementation of C# and the CLI runtime (ECMA 334 and 335) as well as other libraries both for server and client applications.
ProjectsHomepage: http://moodle.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Moodle is working to develop the very best tool for online learning. Our software is a Learning Management System written in PHP, designed to help teachers facilitate communities of learners in a variety of interesting ways. Moodle is widely used around the world by universities, schools, companies, and all manner of organizations and individuals who need to conduct education online. Many of our users take part in the community on moodle.org and contribute with ideas, debate, testing, education, documentation, bug fixing, feature writing and everything else that makes an open source project function.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.mozilla.org/
Preferred License: Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)
The mission of the Mozilla Project is to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet. We are the producer and provider of the award-winning Firefox web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software. We are an advocate for open standards on the Net, and provide tools for developing standard web content. We also provide software development tools used by hundreds of free software projects worldwide.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.mysql.com/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
MySQL develops and markets a family of high performance, affordable database servers and tools. Our mission is to make superior data management available and affordable for all. We contribute to building the mission-critical, high-volume systems and products worldwide. MySQL is a key part of LAMP, which is a fast growing open source enterprise software stack. MySQL is used in a lot of Web 2.0 related companies, including Google!
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
The University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program, opened its doors in January 1986. Since then, NCSA has contributed significantly to the birth and growth of the worldwide cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering, operating some of the world's most powerful supercomputers and developing the software needed to efficiently use these systems (for example, NCSA Telnet and, in 1993, NCSA Mosaic™, the first readily available graphical Web browser). Today the center is recognized as an international leader in deploying robust high-performance computing resources and in working with research communities to develop new computing and software technologies. The center focuses on: Developing and deploying powerful, reliable computing, data, and networking resources that enable researchers to solve the most demanding science and engineering problems in a timely manner. We develop and explore innovative architectures and techniques to achieve petascale science. Working with research communities to develop the tailored cyberenvironments that provide the means to fully exploit the extraordinary resources available on the Internet (computing systems, data sources and stores, and tools). Researching and developing software, techniques, and tools to improve national cybersecurity and to help law enforcement better respond to cyberattacks. Providing insights into complex systems and sharing the thrill of scientific discovery with the broadest possible audience through artful visualizations of scientific phenomena. Preparing the next generation of scientists and engineers to effectively use the growing national cyberinfrastructure. The National Science Foundation, the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, industrial partners, and other federal agencies support NCSA. Cyberenvironments and Technologies Division All the hammers and all the nails in the world can't build a house; tools alone just aren't enough to get the job done. It's the same in the world of cyberscience. The advantages of the national cyberinfrastructure won't be realized without scientists and engineers who are empowered to tap its capabilities. To that end, NCSA is developing cyber¬environments that will enable scientists and engineers to take full advantage of the nation's cyber-resources to drive scientific and engineering advances. Cyberenvironments will integrate distributed computing and data resources into end-to-end scientific processes, providing a boost in productivity. Cyberenvironments include scientific and engineering applications, graphical user interfaces and portals for easy interaction with the applications, and workflow and collaboration software, as well as an integrated data analysis and visualization capability. They couple traditional desktop scientific and engineering applications with national and global cyber-resources to provide researchers an unprecedented capability to assemble, integrate, automate, and manage complex, collaborative projects. Cyberenvironments will ensure that the capabilities in the national cyberinfrastructure can be brought to bear on the most challenging science and engineering issues facing the nation and the world.
ProjectsHomepage: http://nescent.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
NESCent facilitates synthetic research on grand challenge questions in evolutionary biology and also works to address critical needs in software infrastructure and education through promoting open, collaborative development of interoperable and standards-supporting open-source software. The Center is located in Durham, North Carolina, is jointly operated by Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University, and receives its core funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Together with developers from open-source life-science programming toolkits (BioPerl, Biojava, Biopython, Bioruby, BioSQL; collectively referred to as the Bio* projects), evolutionary software packages, and recently developers of comparative phylogenetic methods NESCent has so far run two Hackathons, which continue to have significant and lasting impacts on the landscape of collaborative software development in our field. The Center is committed to FLOSS and sharing of scientific data (see for example the NESCent Data and Software Policy at http://www.nescent.org/informatics/data_software_policy.php); all software products of the Center are released as open source and established as collaborative projects on sites such as SourceForge. Members of the Center's Informatics team are lead developers in several open-source projects, and one of our organization administrators has been active on the Board of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (http://open-bio.org/), the umbrella organization for the Bio* projects, since seven years.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.NetBSD.org
Preferred License: New BSD license
NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit Opteron machines and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research environments, and it is user-supported with complete source. Many applications are easily available through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
We are the developers of NetSurf, a fast and small open source browser written in C with its own layout engine. NetSurf is designed to work well on resource-constrained or embedded platforms, and we currently support machines as slow as 200MHz StrongARMs with relatively little memory. More about the team is at http://www.netsurf-browser.org/about/team
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Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Neuros is a manufacturer of open multimedia devices that is fully committed to the use of open source software and methods for its products. All the source code is released as open source, mostly under the GPL license, and community involvement is a key component both in the design of the devices (with schematics for the hardware freely available) and in the development of software (with regular flow of patches from the community being included in the official repository). The current focus (and focus for SoC) is on the Neuros OSD and OSD 2, an open internet set-top box/media center/recorder. The Neuros OSD can consolidate all a users physical media into a single box (dvds, vhs tapes, home movies) and in the future will be able to do the same with all the downloadable and streaming video as well. The open Neuros OSD platform is an alternative to the closed, walled garden systems distributed by cable and satellite operators.
ProjectsHomepage: http://nmap.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and both console and graphical versions are available.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.nsnam.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The goal of our project is to develop an open source network simulator targeted first to research purposes but which will hopefully, in time, be usable to a larger userbase than the network research community.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.nuigroup.com
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Natural User Interface Group or NUI Group is an interactive media group researching and creating open source machine sensing techniques to benefit artistic and educational applications. NUI Group is also a world wide community, which offers a collaborative environment for developers that are interested in learning and sharing new HCI (Human Computer Interaction) methods and concepts. This may include topics such as: voice/handwriting/gesture recognition, touch computing, computer vision, and information visualization. Our current focus is "Open Source Interface", which is solely for accelerating development of existing hardware and sensing solutions, Thus allowing us to find the cheapest and most effective ways to construct our input devices. This project is truly amazing, which attracts a variety of people from around the globe. We are students, researchers, interaction designers, user interface designers, software engineers working on opens source hardware and software solutions. With over 1300 NUI Group members all over the world we are changing ways of human computer interaction. One very important aspect of this project is to create and utilize open standards that allows software development to flourish. For example, we use the TUIO protocol, which is the standard for tabletop communication. Another crucial standard that must be created in an open environment is "Gesture Standards", which allows for fluid interaction across input devices. Our doors are always open and looking for new people with similar interests and dreams. We believe that community is more powerful than money or technology. We are mainly maintaining a set of open source projects including: OpenTouch - WinLibre GSoC 2007 Best Success - multi-touch library for Mac OS X Touchlib - First open source library for multi-touch screen operation working under Linux and Windows TouchAPI- A library which allows for rapid prototyping of multi-touch client applications in Adobe Flash/Flex/AIR or Silverlight/WPF TUIO Simulator - Java TUIO protocol simulator allowing you to test your multitouch apps without multitouch screen (written by reactivision project team) Other than just mentioned projects, we are also looking forward to work with other open source projects like reactivision, libavg, opentable and many more that are widely used by NUI Group members. We have also started to work on multitouch applications for iPhone/iPod Touch using recently released iPhone SDK and we are waiting for innovative project proposals from community.
ProjectsHomepage: http://oar.imag.fr
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
OAR is a resource management system for high performance computing clusters. It is based upon an original design that emphasizes on low software complexity by using high level components. The global architecture is built upon the scripting language Perl, a relational database engine Mysql/Postgresql and a parallel/scalable remote execution tool for clusters TakTuk(http://taktuk.gforge.inria.fr/). OAR project's objective is to prove that it is possible today to build a complex system for resource management using such tools without sacrificing efficiency and scalability.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.ogre3d.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
OGRE is a leading open-source real-time 3D graphics engine used for games, simulations, architectural and medical visualisation, or anything else that needs sweet, sweet 3D visuals in an open source package. Supports Windows, Linux and OS X (as well as extensions to other platforms) and multiple render systems.
ProjectsHomepage: www.ohloh.net AND source code: labs.ohloh.net
Preferred License: GPL v2.
We run an open-source "network". It's a mix of an open source directory and a developer social network. We track software development metrics for each project and the people developing them (over 100,000 open source developers so far).
ProjectsHomepage: http://wiki.laptop.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
The mission of the One Laptop per Child association is to develop a low-cost laptop and surrounding tools, materials, and communities, to transform education. We have a special focus on children and classes in rural parts of the developing world.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.omii.ac.uk
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
OMII-UK develops and supports a wide range of open source software primarily aimed at the UK research community but, in general, available for anyone to use. OMII-UK software spans a wide range such as data access and sharing (OGSA-DAI), workflow enactment (Taverna), videoconferencing (PAG, RAT and VIC), and computational job execution (GridSAM, RAPID) enabling better use and sharing of resources across organisational boundaries to turn ideas into knowledge and promote collaborations between organisations and individuals. OMII-UK has a user-focused approach, encouraging the developments of communities that use OMII-UK software components together with other components in novel ways to enable world class research.
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Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Open64 is the final result of research contributions from a number of compiler groups around the world. Formerly known as Pro64, Open64 was initially created by SGI and licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL). It was derived from SGI's MIPSPro compiler. Open64 also derives from work done by Intel Corp, in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. They created the Open Research Compiler (ORC), a specially modified version of Open64 with custom modifications for researchers. These changes were later folded back into the main Open64 source tree in 2005. Open64 has been retargetted to a number of architectures. Pathscale modified Open64 to create EkoPath, a compiler for the AMD64 architecture. The University of Delaware's Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Laboratory (CAPSL) modified Open64 to create the Kylin Compiler, a compiler for Intel's X-Scale architecture. CAPSL and Hewlett-Packard are currently working on Osprey, a project to replace Open64's front end (derived from GCC 2.95's frontend) with the current GCC front end. The Open64 compiler suite currently includes compilers for C, C++, and Fortran90/95 compilers for the IA-64 Linux ABI and API standards. Open64 is currently in version 4.1. Professor Guang Gao and CAPSL at the University of Delaware are the current gatekeepers of the project.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.openafs.org
Preferred License: IBM Public License
OpenAFS is an unincorporated open source project derived from IBM's commercial product that was released under the IBM Public License 1.0 in November 2000. OpenAFS is a globally available distributed file system designed to provide high levels of availability and superb performance in wide area networking environments. The OpenAFS organization consists of a governance board, the Elders; a team of release engineers and architects, the Gatekeepers; and a broad community of developers, system administrators and end users that contribute to the future of the product.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.openchange.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
OpenChange aims to provide a portable Open Source implementation of Microsoft Exchange Server and Exchange protocols. Exchange is a groupware server designed to work with Microsoft Outlook, and providing features such as a messaging server, shared calendars, contact databases, public folders, notes and tasks.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc
Preferred License: New BSD license
OpenIcc consist of the members of the so named email list. It was started by Scribus members to better support introduction of colour management into applications and discuss general issues. List contributors are application and CMS developers as well as colour management specialists and users, no matter whether commercial, open source and both together.
ProjectsHomepage: http://openinkpot.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Open source project for creating a free/libre firmware for various e-ink based devices.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.openmoko.com
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
OpenMoko Inc. is a vendor working on open, hackable mobile phones featuring a completely open source software stack on the CPU. OpenMoko targets power users and developers to create exciting new applications bringing forwards Mark Weiser's vision of Ubiquitous Computing.
ProjectsHomepage: http://openmrs.org
Preferred License: Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)
Our world continues to be ravaged by a pandemic of epic proportions, as over 40 million people are infected with or dying from HIV/AIDS -- most (up to 95%) are in developing countries. Prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS on this scale requires efficient information management, which is critical as HIV/AIDS care must increasingly be entrusted to less skilled providers. Whether for lack of time, developers, or money, most HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries manage their information with simple spreadsheets or small, poorly designed databases...if anything at all. To help them, we need to find a way not only to improve management tools, but also to reduce unnecessary, duplicative efforts. As a response to these challenges, OpenMRS formed in 2004 as a open source medical record system framework for developing countries -- a tide which rises all ships. OpenMRS is a multi-institution, nonprofit collaborative led by Regenstrief Institute, Inc. (http://regenstrief.org), a world-renowned leader in medical informatics research, and Partners In Health (http://pih.org), a Boston-based philanthropic organization with a focus on improving the lives of underprivileged people worldwide through health care service and advocacy. These teams nurture a growing worldwide network of individuals and organizations all focused on creating medical record systems and a corresponding implementation network to allow system development self reliance within resource constrained environments. To date, OpenMRS has been implemented in several developing countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Lesotho, Uganda, Tanzania, Haiti, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Kerala. This work is supported in part by organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.opennms.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
We develop a java-based open-source enterprise-grade network management platform.
ProjectsHomepage: http://chandlerproject.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
OSAF is a non-profit organization working on Chandler Project, a personal information manager designed for small group collaboration. Chandler consists of a Desktop application, a Server and the Chandler Hub Sharing Service.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.osc.edu/
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) provides supercomputing, networking, research and educational resources to a diverse state and national community, including education, academic research, industry and state government.
ProjectsHomepage: http://oscar.openclustergroup.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
OSCAR allows users, regardless of their experience level with a *nix environment, to install a Beowulf type high performance computing cluster. It also contains everything needed to administer and program this type of HPC cluster. OSCAR's flexible package management system has a rich set of pre-packaged applications and utilities which means you can get up and running without laboriously installing and configuring complex cluster administration and communication packages. It also lets administrators create customized packages for any kind of distributed application or utility, and to distribute those packages from an online package repository, either on or off site.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.osgeo.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
OSGeo is an incorporated not-for-profit organization serving as an umbrella organization for the Open Source Geospatial community in general, and 14 projects in particular.
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Preferred License: New BSD license
OSSIM aims at providing an open source security event/information management system, which is becoming more and more important/useful as the amount of security aware people and logs increases. We're looking for anybody with a twist for computer security and innovative ideas. Our idea list is just a reference, please feel free to provide any others you think might fit in the Security Information and Event Management context.
ProjectsHomepage: http://osuosl.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The Open Source Lab at Oregon State University exists to help accelerate the adoption of open source software across the globe and aid the community that develops and uses it. The OSL's talented team of students and full-time staff do this by focusing on a twofold strategy of software development and hosting some of the world's largest open source projects.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.osvdb.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
OSVDB is an independent and open source database created by and for the security community. The goal of the project is to provide accurate, detailed, current, and unbiased technical information on security vulnerabilities. More information about the project can be found at http://osvdb.org/about
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.panotools.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Our organization is a composite of several open source/free software projects: hugin, panotools and enblend/enfuse. We are used to collaborate across timezones and cultures.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.pardus.org.tr/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The participating organization is the Pardus project (http://www.pardus.org.tr). Pardus is a Linux distribution development project under the auspices of TUBITAK UEKAE. TUBITAK (The National Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) UEKAE (National Research Institute for Electronic and Cryptography) is a government-run research institute in Turkey. TUBITAK (http://www.tubitak.gov.tr) is the scientific research funding organization of Turkey - a la NSF, and UEKAE is one of the research institutes of TUBITAK - a la Max Planck. TUBITAK UEKAE is located in Gebze, ca. 50 km from Istanbul, and has offices in Ankara as well. TUBITAK UEKAE has more than 500 researchers working in the fields of information security and cryptography. Pardus project has a triad of goals: Developing Linux distribution for widespread use in Turkey and elsewhere, to have some sound financial sustainability even though the mother organization is a not-for-profit, and finally to develop a FOSS ecosystem in Turkey and elsewhere to innovate in Linux and related technologies. Pardus, the distribution, is the main tool to achieve these goals, and has, in turn, three fundamental requirements: Having full Turkish (i.e. mostly UTF-8) support, ease of use and installation, and a human-centric and task-based design approach (instead of a technology-centric and tool-based one). Pardus project has been launched in Fall 2003 and the technical roadmap has been laid of in Fall 2004. The Pardus developers consist of 15 TUBITAK UEKAE employed core developers (10 full-time) and more than 25 community developers. The product of the project, Pardus, is a free operating system, main pieces of which (and all the code developed within the Pardus project) are distributed under GPL license.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.thousandparsec.net/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Thousand Parsec is a framework for turn based space empire building games. Thousand Parsec includes everything you need to play running games, set up your own games and build your own space empire games. Some examples of games which Thousand Parsec draws ideas from are Reach for the Stars, Stars!, VGA Planets, Master of Orion and Galactic Civilizations. These games are often called 4X strategy games, from the main phases found in the games, eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate.
ProjectsHomepage: http://javapathfinder.sourceforge.net/
Preferred License: NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3
The Java PathFinder project (JPF) was started at NASA Ames Research Center in 1999. JPF is a research JVM (implemented in Java) that runs as a "software model checker"; It stores program states and checks properties, backtracking and re-scheduling threads as necessary to cover all program executions. JPF has won several awards, inside and outside of NASA. JPF was open sourced in April 2005 with the mainline development hosted on Sourceforge. The primary goal of open sourcing JPF was to enable students to contribute and take their code with them after their summer internships - and begin to build a development community. So far, we have received contributions from students at SUNY Stonybrook, Kansas State, MIT, CMU, U. Mass, Georgia Tech, UC Santa Barbara, University of Nebraska, INRIA, Toronto, Masaryk University and UIUC. The primary industrial user of JPF is Fujitsu Labs. The Java PathFinder Team is comprised of the JPF research team at NASA Ames, several past NASA team members who have moved to industry, and a number of students who are using JPF in their graduate studies. Contact us at javapathfinder-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
ProjectsHomepage: http://community.pentaho.org
Preferred License: Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)
Pentaho is an open source alternative for business intelligence (BI). Pentaho Open BI Suite provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform that integrates these functions. Since starting the Pentaho BI Platform project 4 years ago, four other established open source projects have joined Pentaho. They are Mondrian http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondrian, JFreeReport http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfreereport, Kettle http://kettle.pentaho.org/ and WEKA http://sourceforge.net/projects/weka
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.perlfoundation.org/
Preferred License: Artistic license
The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code. The Perl Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Holland, Michigan. Specifically for GSoC, The Perl Foundation will be assisting several large sub-communities on behalf of the overall Perl community. See the following url for more information. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008
ProjectsHomepage: http://php.net
Preferred License: PHP License
Devoted to developing PHP.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.pidgin.im/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. We're compatible with MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, XMPP, and other IM services. We also produce a console-based instant messaging client called Finch. Both clients are based on our libpurple library, which does the grunt work of connecting to the IM networks. The Adium instant messaging program on OS X also utilizes this library.
ProjectsHomepage: http://plazi.ch
Preferred License: New BSD license
Plazi Verein is an international association devoted to the development and promotion of open and persistent access to the data and literature describing species. To this end we have developed an xml schema, TaxonX (http://plazi.org/?q=node/10), for the markup of species descriptions to make the rich data in them accessible for analysis, retrieval, and data mining. We have also developed an application, GoldenGate (http://plazi.org/?q=GoldenGATE) which employs the GATE framework which serves as an "Annotation Editor" and applies NLP techniques to enable semi-automated markup of the data of interest in textual data.
ProjectsHomepage: http://planetmath.org
Preferred License: MIT/X11, FDL, and GPL variously.
A collaborative mathematics "encyclopedia", and the software that powers it (Noosphere). We endeavor to grow our pilot project (PlanetMath) and make it easier for others to create similar collaborative mathematical sciences learning resources on the web.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.plone.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The Plone Foundation will celebrate its fourth birthday around the time students start coding for this year's SoC. It exists to promote Plone, an open source Content Management System based on Zope 2. Plone has existed since 1999 when the project was founded by Alexander Limi, Alan Runyan and Vidar Andersen. The foundation is adminstered by the foundation board which is elected by the foundation membership. Foundation membership represents exceptional contribution to the community and is subject to approval of an application, so far over 100 have been accepted. The community has had an annual conference since 2003 which has taken place in New Orleans, Vienna (twice), Seattle and Naples. The Naples conference was attended by approximately 350 members of the community; a similar figure to the previous conference in Seattle. Local user groups exist in many cities, some organising symposia; one such event is currently underway. In addition, over 800 projects are versioned in our community SVN repository, the collective and there are more than 1000 showcase websites and almost 250 companies specialising in Plone development listed on Plone.net.
ProjectsHomepage: www.postgresql.org
Preferred License: New BSD license
PostgreSQL is the most advanced open source database management system, with a set of features extending far beyond SQL and ACID transactions to pluggable procedural languages, XML, custom aggregates and more. PostgreSQL scales to thousands of users and terabytes of data. It is written entirely in well-documented C, with some optional components in other languages. PostgreSQL is also unincorporated global development community which works on the PostgreSQL object-relational database and tools related to it. We are community-owned and not the product of any one company. Our developers and mentors consist mostly of hardcore database hackers, including corporate programmers, academics and independent database enthusiasts. All development of PostgreSQL is done online on public mailing lists and public CVS.
ProjectsHomepage: http://zikula.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Zikula is an Open Source Web Application Framework written in the popular web scripting language PHP. It is free to download and use, and is supported by a large community of many thousands of people across the globe. There are over 500,000 websites using the Zikula Framework on the web today. The Zikula Software Foundation was established in 2005 to ensure the longevity of the project, and is a non profit organization that assists the project in its long term strategic goals. The members of the Foundation's board are all volunteers and members of the project. Zikula itself is managed day to day by a five person steering committee, elected by the members of the Software Foundation. The core code is developed by around twenty developers, though there are many other regular contributors who submit patches and changes both small and large to the core code and these are often incorporated into the next release. The project’s biggest advantage is the mass of third party developments available. Much like other web application frameworks, the project lives and dies by the third party developments which are available, and these are hundreds for Zikula, from basic content modules to forums and download management scripts. These range from the complicated to the simplistic, and the system can be customized to an individual user’s need depending on the type of website they are trying to create.
ProjectsHomepage: http://python.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a non-profit membership organization devoted to advancing open source technology related to the Python programming language. The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Python programmers.
ProjectsHomepage: http://summer.cs.pdx.edu
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
We are the open source development team at Portland State University. We develop a lot of different kinds of open source project: everything from the world's most advanced low-cost amateur rockets and law-enforcement communication systems to web toolkits and programming environments. We specialize in open source projects with an academic component, and those that are off the beaten path. We think we've been an academic leader in the R&D side of free and open source software. For example, the components of the X Window System developed by PSU students, faculty and friends touch users of the free desktop every day. Our location in Portland, Oregon gives us access to a large pool of top-quality open source developers, and they have been very good to us in helping to mentor our students. For Summer of Code, we are looking for developers in Portland and from around the globe who are excited about an open source project that has an academic bent, or that doesn't fit well with any other Summer of Code organization.
ProjectsHomepage: http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/
Preferred License: New BSD license
The Ptolemy project studies modeling, simulation, and design of concurrent, real-time, embedded systems. The focus is on assembly of concurrent components. The key underlying principle in the project is the use of well-defined models of computation that govern the interaction between components. A major problem area being addressed is the use of heterogeneous mixtures of models of computation. A software system called Ptolemy II is being constructed in Java. Ptolemy II differs from other commonly used graphical block-diagram languages in that they typically support only one model of computation. In addition, Ptolemy II is a more open architecture in that its infrastructure is open source, and the interfaces to the core mechanisms in the software are published and documented. The Ptolemy project has been under development in Java since 1997.The work is conducted in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley. Currently, full-time members of the project include 1 faculty member, 3 systems/software managers, 5 postdoctoral/visiting scholars, 11 grad students, 2 visitors, 2 undergrad students (details at http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/people/main.htm ). Our contributors include people from industry, universities, research institutions and other public projects (details at http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/archive/links.htm ). We have a long collaboration with the Kepler project (http://www.kepler-project.org), an open-source scientific workflow system that uses Ptolemy as its core.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.R-project.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The R Foundation is a not for profit organization working in the public interest. It has been founded by the members of the R Development Core Team in order to * Provide support for the R project and other innovations in statistical computing. We believe that R has become a mature and valuable tool and we would like to ensure its continued development and the development of future innovations in software for statistical and computational research. * Provide a reference point for individuals, instititutions or commercial enterprises that want to support or interact with the R development community. * Hold and administer the copyright of R software and documentation. R is an official part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project, and the R Foundation has similar goals to other open source software foundations like the Apache Foundation or the GNOME Foundation. Among the goals of the R Foundation are the support of continued development of R, the exploration of new methodology, teaching and training of statistical computing and the organization of meetings and conferences with a statistical computing orientation.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.rockbox.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The Rockbox project started in december 2001 and in it we develop a complete portable music player firmware replacement - including operating system, GUI and application suite. Rockbox runs on a wide range of support platforms including players from Archos, Apple (ipod), iriver, iAudio, Toshiba and SanDisk. We're 100% spare time contributors.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.rtems.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The RTEMS Project is the umbrella term used to describe the collection of individuals, companies, universities, and research institutions that collectively maintain and enhance the RTEMS software base. The RTEMS Project is lead by a Steering Committee (http://www.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/Steering_Committee/) that collectively represents the interests of the community and provides stewardship for the code base. RTEMS (Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems) is a free real-time operating system designed for deeply embedded systems. It is a free open source solution that supports multi-processor systems and has been ported to over a dozen CPU architectures and includes support for over 100 boards. RTEMS is designed to support applications with the most stringent real-time requirements while being compatible with open standards such as POSIX. RTEMS includes optional functional features such as TCP/IP and various file systems while still offering minimum executable sizes under 32 KB in useful configurations. Many RTEMS developers are active in the free software community and contribute to various projects including binutils, gcc, newlib, and gdb. The RTEMS Maintainer is also a member of the GCC Steering Committee. RTEMS development is done in a cross-compilation fashion. The RTEMS Project maintains an APT/Yum Repository with RPMs for various i386 and x86_64 GNU/Linux distributions including Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, and SUSE. In addition, MS-Windows is supported via MinGW hosted toolsets. RTEMS tools are included in various BSD ports collection. We have recently put together some flyers for projects that use RTEMS. Please visit http://www.rtems.org/flyers.html and see how a relatively unknown piece of open source software is such an important part of the scientific community. Please note that GPL+exception was not an option for the license category. Most of RTEMS uses a GPL+linking exception.
ProjectsHomepage: http://rubycentral.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
Ruby Central organizes national and international Ruby related activities. We're involved in everything from the international Ruby and Rails conferences, helping organize regional Ruby conferences, and supporting ongoing development projects (like RubyForge and the GSoC).
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Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.sakaiproject.org/
Preferred License: We use the ECL 2.0, which is a minor variant of Apache 2. It is OSI certified.
Sakai is an Open Source Collaboration and Learning Environment which is in Enterprise use at 200 Universities around the world with over a million users who use Sakai daily in their teaching and learning. The Sakai Foundation coordinates the activities of the Sakai open source community and provides shared resources to support the Sakai community activities. IMS GLC is a global, nonprofit, member association that provides leadership in shaping and growing the learning and educational technology industries through collaborative support of standards, innovation, best practice and recognition of superior learning impact. IMS standards such as IMS Content Packaging, IMS Question and Test Interchange, IMS Common Cartridge, IMS Learning Design, and IMS Learning Tools Interoperability form the backbone of data and functionality interchange between learning management systems from multiple vendors. The Sakai Foundation is the lead sponsor as Sakai has the open source infrastructure and processes needed to support this effort. The IMS Global Learning Consortium is providing access to the IMS LTI standards to this effort while the standards are in development.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.samba.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that has, since 1992, provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
ProjectsHomepage: http://scons.org/
Preferred License: MIT license
SCons is a cross-platform, next-generation build tool. Unlike most other build tools that invent their own mini-language or wedge a scripting language onto some other configuration file syntax, SCons configuration files are actually Python scripts. The flexibility of Python scripting makes it possible to solve complicated build problems in surprisingly small amounts of maintainable code. Its portability (the only requirement is Python 1.5.2 or later), cross-platform features (extensive support for languages and compilers), and reliability (MD5 file signatures, cache) make it an incomparable tool not only for build masters but also for many free software projects. SCons has been an active project since its founding in 2001. SCons now averages about 7000 downloads per month and has active user and development mailing lists with membership of approximately 450 and 150, respectively, and average monthly traffic of 275 and 100 messages, respectively. The SCons Foundation was organized in 2003 to hold the copyrights of the SCons source code, and to provide a legal entity for any other organizational necessities (e.g., receiving donations). The Foundation is a Delaware non-profit corporation, but does not currently have 501(c)(3) status.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.scribus.net
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The Scribus Team consists of a relatively small, but dedicated core of developers along with a larger circle of individual contributors located on every continent who work together to develop Scribus - an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, color separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. In the Linux/UNIX and OS/2 worlds Scribus is the Open Source Desktop Publishing Software of choice.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.scummvm.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
ScummVM is a collection of Virtual Machines which allow a variety of commercially available graphical point-and-click adventure games to run on modern hardware, often with improved features. Supported games include favorites such as Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer, Space Quest, and many more. To this end, the Virtual Machines (called Engines) are complete reimplementations of each supported game engine in a structured fashion using the C++ language. The development team works either by reverse engineering game executables (usually with the permission of creators of the game), or by using the original source code of the games provided by the creators. The number of engines is constantly growing thanks to a very agile and diversified development team. The VM approach followed by ScummVM results in efficient code, which has been ported to numerous Operating Systems. Besides running on all mainstream desktop environments, namely Windows, Mac OS X and most Unix variants (Linux, *BSD, Solaris), ScummVM works on popular game consoles (Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and more), smart phones and PDAs (WinCE, PalmOS, iPhone or Symbian based), and even on many not-so-mainstream systems (like BeOS, AmigaOS or OS/2). ScummVM has a highly productive team of about 35 currently active developers (out of an all-time pool of over 60), who work together on a codebase almost 650,000 lines of code. In addition we have many non-developer contributors, and a huge and highly active community. ScummVM is among the top ranking projects hosted on sourceforge.net with well over 100,000 monthly downloads and ~10 million project web hits per month.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.libsdl.org/
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
The SDL library is an open source cross-platform game and multimedia application SDK. It has been widely used to create commercial and open source games and media applications.
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Preferred License: Affero General Public License
The Software Freedom Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charity based in the United States; it was founded in March 2006. Our primary goal is to provide stewardship and corporate sponsorship for Free and and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects.
ProjectsHomepage: http://singinst.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 to develop safe artificial intelligence software, and to raise awareness of both the dangers and potential benefits of artificial general intelligence technologies. The SIAI sponsors numerous research projects, both theoretical and applied, and has recently begun to structure applied research under the umbrella of OpenCog, the Open Cognition Project. OpenCog is software for the collaborative development of safe and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence, and aims to provide research scientists and software developers with a common platform to build and share artificial intelligence programs.
ProjectsHomepage: http://sip-communicator.org
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
SIP Communicator is an audio/video Internet phone and instant messenger written in Java. It supports some of the most popular instant messaging and telephony protocols such as SIP, Jabber (and hence GoogleTalk), AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Apple Bonjour, IRC and soon others like IAX. The development of SIP Communicator started out at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France (http://www-ulp.u-strasbg.fr) but has grown to include members and contributors from (alphabetically) Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, France, Estonia, India, Germany, Japan, Romania, Spain, UK, USA, and others. Some of these contributors have joined the project after successfully participating in the 2007 edition of Google Summer of Code. SIP Communicator is based on the OSGi (http://osgi.org) architecture using the Felix implementation from Apache. This makes it very extensible and particularly developer friendly. Needless to say SIP Communicator is completely Open Source / Free Software, and is freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.squeak.org/
Preferred License: MIT license
The Squeak Project is an organization dedicated to support Squeak's development. Squeak is a Smalltalk dialect and a programming environment created by many of the original Smalltalk authors. Its first edition was released in 1996, and it's currently at version 3.9, with a 3.10 version under development. It has spawned many related projects, both non-commercial (such as Squeakland http://www.squeakland.org/, Croquet http://www.croquetproject.org/, Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/, Sophie http://sophieproject.org/) and commercial (Plopp http://planet-plopp.com/, DabbleDB http://www.dabbledb.com, CMSBox http://www.cmsbox.ch/). It's also the main developer platform for the Seaside web framework. The Squeak Project takes care of all the bureaucratic tasks for the Squeak community (providing funding for server and connectivity costs, etc.); all the other tasks and problems, including technical ones, are handled by the community. By partecipating as the Squeak Project, instead of simply Squeak as we did in the 2007 edition of the GSoC, we aim to muster a larger involvement from the various communities related to Squeak. The Squeak Project will be joining the Software Freedom Conservancy in the near future.
ProjectsHomepage: http://openstreetmap.org
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
"OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways." Contributors to OpenStreetMap take handheld GPS devices with them on journeys, or go out specially to record GPS tracks. They record street names, village names and other features using notebooks, digital cameras, and voice-recorders. Back at the computer, contributors upload those GPS logs showing where they travelled, and trace-out the roads on OpenStreetMap's collaborative database. Using their notes, contributors add the street names, information such as the type of road or path, and the connections between roads. That data is then processed to produce detailed street-level maps, which can be published freely on sites such as Wikipedia, used to create handheld or in-car navigation devices, or printed and copied without restriction.
ProjectsHomepage: http://subclipse.tigris.org/
Preferred License: Eclipse Public License
Subclipse is an open-source (EPL) provider of Subversion integration with the Eclipse IDE. Subclipse was the original Subversion team integration with Eclipse and has a long history as a successful open source project. We have a diverse community that includes regular contributors with several other open source projects, such as Subversion, Eclipse and Eclipse Mylyn.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.opensuse.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
openSUSE is a community distribution sponsored by Novell to promote the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE delivers everything that Linux developers and enthusiasts need to get started with Linux. Hosted at opensuse.org, the project features easy access to builds and releases. It also offers extensive community development programs for open access to the development process used to create SUSE Linux.
ProjectsHomepage: http://subversion.tigris.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
We maintain and develop Subversion, an open-source version control system. (Formally, we are The Subversion Corporation, and the corporation home page is http://subversion.org/; however, http://subversion.tigris.org/ is the project home page and that is the site we try to focus the community around.)
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.swarm.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The Swarm Development Group (SDG) was founded in September 1999 as a private, not-for-profit [501c(3)] organization to support the development of the Swarm Simulation System (Swarm) and the interests of the group members. The purposes of the SDG are to: 1. advance the state-of-the-art in multi agent based simulation through the continued advancement of the Swarm Simulation System and support of the Swarm user community 2. promote the free interchange of multi agent based simulations among computing specialists and the public 3. develop and maintain the integrity and competence of individuals engaged in the practice of agent based simulation. Agent-based models (ABMs) are an exciting new approach for learning about and simulating complex systems, and its use is growing rapidly in science and business. As opposed to traditional modeling techniques that represent systems via differential equations for system state, ABMs represent systems as a collection of digital individuals that each have unique characteristics, interact with each other and their environment, and exhibit adaptive behavior. Swarm is a platform for ABMs that includes: a conceptual framework for designing, describing, and conducting experiments on ABMs; software implementing that framework and providing many handy tools; and a community of users and developers that share ideas, software, and experience. Swarm was the first of several agent-based modeling platforms that are widely used by scientists and students studying complexity in many fields of science. Swarm was originally developed in the mid-1990s by Chris Langton at the Santa Fe Institute and has an active, international user community. Swarm software is a library of Objective-C classes; users code their models in Objective-C, Java, or C++.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.swig.org
Preferred License: New BSD license
SWIG is a tool for making it easy to expose C/C++ code code for use from a variety of high level programming languages. The number of supported languages now stands at 18 and includes most mainstream languages such as Python, Java, C#, Ruby and Perl. The organisation is the community involved in maintaining SWIG.
ProjectsHomepage: http://syslinux.zytor.com/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The SYSLINUX project maintains a suite of advanced boot loaders primarily intended for Linux, but widely used for other operating systems. It is the most commonly used boot loaders for booting Linux off the network and off CD-ROMs, but it is not limited to these functions.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.tcl.tk/
Preferred License: New BSD license
The Tcl/Tk community includes anybody who uses Tcl/Tk, is interested in Tcl/Tk, or just wants to be in the club! Tcl/Tk is used by a wide range of governmental, commercial and educational institutions around the globe. Many well-known and well-regarded systems have either been developed in Tcl/Tk or are using Tcl/Tk as an embedded language (e.g. Expect, AOLserver, DejaGnu, Metakit, Starkit and SQLite). We communicate through IRC (see below), an active development list (see below) and a wiki (http://wiki.tcl.tk). The Seventh European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting will be held in June, and September we will be holding our fifteenth annual Tcl/Tk conference in the USA. Our application was written by the organizing committee of the annual Tcl/Tk conference, although all members of the Tcl/Tk community were encouraged to participate. The group we have put together to submit this application include members of the Tcl/Tk core team, developers from well-established Tcl/Tk projects (such as AOLserver and OpenACS), and educators.
ProjectsHomepage: http://tug.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
TUG is the oldest TeX-related organization, founded in 1980. We are membership-based and -funded, with about 1500 members at present. We provide infrastructure for TeX education, documentation, accepting donations and getting grants, and of course software development (http://tug.org/texcollection). We have published a print journal since our founding (http://tug.org/TUGboat) and a companion online-only journal for the last few years (http://tug.org/pracjourn).
ProjectsHomepage: http://translate.sourceforge.net
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
We are focused on the development of localization tools. The focus of the tools is to make localization of computer software and content translation easier and of higher quality. We do this by creating the Translate Toolkit (a set of tools to manipulate translation formats e.g. we transform Mozilla and OpenOffice.org localizations into Gettext PO) and Pootle (an online translation and translation management tools used by OpenOffice.org and Creative Commons amongst many others). We also create an online resource to help others localize effectively, especially in minority languages. The people involved in our project are closely aligned with translation and localization. Thus we are not programmers theorizing about what is best for localizers but are localizers actively trying to make our lives easier and to improve the quality of our own translations.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.turbogears.org/
Preferred License: MIT license
TurboGears is an open source project which was founded by Kevin Dangoor in 2005. Kevin brought together a number of tools which people were using for web development into one usable package, in a few hundred lines of code. The result was a framework which allowed for swappable components, allowing a developer the flexibility to choose the best-of-breed technology to solve their web application challenges. As the popularity of TurboGears grew, more developers began to participate. The development of TurboGears became a world-wide effort. Though our developer base has changed throughout the project's life, our ultimate goal has remained: To provide web developers a toolkit which is easy to get started with, supports agile development and provides an exceedingly high level of flexibility, unmatched in the world of web frameworks. Currently our development staff consists of about a dozen programmers (though this figure might be a little bit misleading since there are dozens more developers working on core dependencies, from Genshi and SQLAlchemy to ToscaWidgets, and DBSprockets) whose efforts are divided between supporting a stable base and developing the next generation of our software. This has resulted in merging our efforts with those of another popular Python web framework (Pylons) with the goal to build an even more component-oriented framework and to perpetuate our active role in the Python web frameworks domain. TurboGears, strives to bring together the open source community to develop cutting-edge technology which is enjoyable to use.
ProjectsHomepage: http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
A group of volunteers that develop and maintain multi-platform open source educational software for children: the award-winning, multi-lingual Tux Paint drawing program; the Tux Typing typing tutor game; and Tux, of Math Command, an arcade-style math skill tester.
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Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Umit is a Nmap frontend, that has been developed in Python and GTK and was started with the sponsoring of Google's Summer of Code 2005. The project goal is to develop a network management tool that is really useful for advanced users and easy to be used by newbies. With Umit, a network administrator can create scan profiles for faster and easier network scanning or even compare scan results to easily see any changes. A regular user will also be able to construct powerful scans with Umit Command Creator Wizard.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.uzh.ch
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
The University of Zurich is with over 25000 students and 6000 staff members Switzerlands' biggest and most important higher education institution. The Multimedia and E-Learning Services (MELS) are part of the IT Services and are responsible for the development of multimedia and eLearning content, and also an open source e-learning platform called OLAT (www.olat.org). All the mentors of the following proposal are part of the MELS-staff or working with the MELS. If you plan to participate: We do recommend to attend the first int. OLAT conference 2008 that will be held in Zurich on March 27th and 28th 2008. See http://www.olat.org/conference
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.videolan.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
VideoLAN is a group of software programmers that originated in a few projects licensed in the GPL. The most known of those projects are VLC media player and x264 encoder. But other less known projects still exists.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.vim.org
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0
Vi IMproved, the text editor
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.webkit.org/
Preferred License: New BSD license
WebKit is an open source, cross-platform web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. WebKit is also used in Google's Andriod platform, Nokia's S60 Browser, TrollTech's Qt, and TorchMobile's Iris Browser™.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.wesnoth.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures... 200+ unit types. 16 races. 6 major factions. Hundreds of years of history. The world of Wesnoth is absolutely huge and limited only by your creativity - make your own custom units, compose your own maps, and write your own scenarios or even full-blown campaigns. You can also challenge up to 8 friends - or strangers - and fight in epic multi-player fantasy battles.
ProjectsHomepage: http://wikimediafoundation.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge... That's what we're doing. The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit company which operates Wikipedia and other community-built, open-source, free-content educational resource web sites. Wikimedia maintains the open-source MediaWiki software which powers these and many other wiki sites.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.winehq.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
The Wine Project is dedicated to producing an LGPL'd implementation of the win16 and win32 APIs with as goal running all Windows applications and games under linux and bsd.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.winlibre.com
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
WinLibre project is an open source project aimed at popularizing Open Source software. WinLibre is a META-project that was originally targeted for the windows platform (hence its name) but it has evolved during the last 2 years to embrace also the Mac OS and Linux platforms. We are focusing on delivering to our users quality open source software with a strong emphasis on ease of use. We are mainly maintaining WinLibre (open source software distribution for windows) and MacLibre (open source software distribution for Mac OS X). The Winlibre distribution provides a collection of first-class open-source software bundled in a easy single installer & updater. Through time and thanks to the former editions of the Google Summer Of Code, the Winlibre project has evolved and created other sub-projects to fill gaps in the open-source desktop software offering. The Maclibre distribution is an equivalent to the Winlibre distribution for Mac OS.
ProjectsHomepage: http://wordpress.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
WordPress is the most popular open source state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform (blogging software).
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.worldforge.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The WorldForge project creates multiplayer online roleplaying games. Our vision is to foster an independent community in which many free games can develop and evolve with unique roleplaying-oriented worlds and rules, running on a wide selection of server and client implementations with a standard networking protocol tying everything together. Our core focus is the construction of a complete system with all the tools, technology, content and artwork required to build complex persistent online virtual worlds.
ProjectsHomepage: http://wxPython.org/
Preferred License: wxWindows Library License
wxPython is closely associated with the wxWidgets group, and several developers cross-over between them both. The organization is led by myself, Robin Dunn, and is supported by several active contributors from the community.
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.wxwidgets.org
Preferred License: wxWindows Library License
wxWidgets is an open source cross-platform GUI toolkit, with ports for Linux/Unix (GTK+, X11, Motif, MGL), Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac OS X, and OS/2. You can write wxWidgets applications in several languages including C++, Python, C#, Ruby, and Perl. Thousands of commercial and non-commercial organizations rely on wxWidgets; notable applications include Audacity, OSAF's Chandler, Juice, AVG Antivirus, Forte Agent, and BitWise IM. Recently, wxWidgets user Robert J. Lang was featured on Apple's front page for his work on origami software using wxWidgets.
ProjectsHomepage: http://xbmc.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
XBMC (formerly "XBox Media Center") is a free and open source cross-platform media center, designed to be the hub of your entertainment system. XBMC was originally established in 2002, at that time being developed as media player software for the first-generation Xbox game-console. XBMC has since been ported to run natively under Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating-systems. XBMC has been translated to over 30 languages, won two SourceForge Community Choice Awards (Best Multimedia Project and Best Game Project in 2006), and today XBMC has a very broad international community of active developers, graphic artists, and devoted users.
ProjectsHomepage: http://xiph.org/
Preferred License: New BSD license
Xiph.Org is an open source project and non-profit corporation dedicated to providing open and free-to-implement multimedia technology as a foundation for an interoperable, level playing field on the internet and other digital distribution networks. Over the past 8 years we have developed most of the major patent-free audio and video codecs currently in use, including Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and Theora, as well as developing the Ogg streaming format, and the Icecast streaming media server. This year we are also coordinating projects for the Annodex association under our umbrella. The Annodex project is developing a set of open specifications and open source software to allow the creation of hyperlinked Webs of audio and video integrated with the text-based view of the current Web. Toward this goal, Annodex has done a great deal of work developing tools, browser plugins and convenience libraries to facilitate adoption of Xiph.Org's lower-level technology. As such the two projects have largely aligned goals, but focus on different levels in the stack.
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Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
XMMS2 is the spiritual successor to the very successful XMMS project. The creators of XMMS got together in 2002 and spun out the XMMS2 sister project that is now lead by Tobias Rundström and Anders Waldenborg with around 10-15 regular contributors spread over the world (but concentrated in Europe). Our focus has been to separate music playback from the UI in order to provide multiple interfaces and other interesting features. While the code of the music playback engine is starting to mature we have also added features that are expected from modern music players, like a Media library and a powerful way of querying it (Collections).
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.xmpp.org/
Preferred License: MIT license
The mission of the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is to build an open, standardized, secure, feature-rich, widely-deployed, decentralized infrastructure for real-time communication and collaboration over the Internet. We seek to achieve that goal by developing the world's best open protocols for instant messaging, presence, and other forms of near-real-time communication, based on the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (a formalization of the streaming XML protocols originally defined by the Jabber open-source community).
ProjectsHomepage: http://x.org
Preferred License: MIT license
X.Org maintains and develops the X Window System
ProjectsHomepage: http://www.xwiki.org/
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
XWiki is a Java open source software development platform based on the wiki principles, under a LGPL license. In addition to being a full-featured wiki, it is also a second generation wiki allowing collaborative web applications to be written easily and quickly. On top of this platform several products are developed, targeted mainly on aiding enterprise-level needs. XWiki has a vibrant community of developers and users. The community is made of individual users as well as companies around the world which are using XWiki for Intranets and Communities. One example of an important project built on top of XWiki is Curriki (http://www.curriki.org) which is open source itself and hosted inside XWiki's source repository. Curriki is an online service for creating and sharing open education resources (based on XWiki and the Google Web Toolkit).
ProjectsHomepage: http://foundation.zope.org
Preferred License: Zope Public License
The Zope Foundation has the goal to promote, maintain, and develop the Zope (http://zope.org) platform. It does this by supporting the Zope community. Our community includes the open source community of contributors to the Zope software, contributors to the documentation and web infrastructure, as well as the community of businesses and organizations that use Zope. The Zope Foundation is the copyright holder of the Zope software and many extensions and associated software. The Zope Foundation also manages the zope.org website, and manages the infrastructure for open source collaboration.
ProjectsHomepage: http://zumastor.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Zumastor is a project to add block-level snapshots and remote replication to Linux.
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