KWLUG - The Kitchener Waterloo Linux User Group

This nomination is by Chris Bruner. It was suggested on 2007-11-09.

He writes:

I would like to propose a couple of candidates to the floss fund.
The first is wikipedia which I (and I'm sure others) use all the time.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising

In addition to Wikipedia the foundation has several other projects, and has driven the development of WikiMedia.

This nomination is from Chris Bruner. It was suggested after the Wikimedia Foundation suggestion, 2007-11-09

UPDATE: Chris says that he is okay with this being his first nomination, before Wikimedia.

Chris writes:

It's one of these behind the scenes opensource projects, that I don't think gets much support, but is very useful. It is a cross platform widget maker that is in use in several applications

From: http://www.pilot-link.org/
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pilot-link is a suite of tools used to connect your Palm or PalmOS® compatible handheld with Unix, Linux, and any other POSIX-compatible machine. pilot-link works with all PalmOS® handhelds, including those made by Handspring, Sony, and Palm, as well as others.

pilot-link includes userspace "conduits" that allow you to syncronize information to and from your Palm device, as well as libraries of Palm-compatible functions that allow other applications to take advantage of the code included in pilot-link.
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Vim (Vi Improved) is an immensely popular text editor that could very well be installed in your Linux distro. It is one of the more popular Vi replacements, possibly because it is as scriptable as Emacs.

Vim's primary author Bram Moolenaar releases Vim as charityware: people who so inclined can "pay" for Vim (and encourage its further development) by making a donation to Moolenaar's favourite charity. See http://www.vim.org/sponsor/index.php for more information. Payment can be made in a number of ways, including PayPal.

LaTeX is a typesetting system which is widely used in the publishing industry and in academic circles for producing a wide range of document types. The LaTeX3 project is a long-term research project to develop the next version of the LaTeX typesetting system.

The LaTeX3 project accepts donations by credit card via the TeX Users Group. The donation page is here https://www.tug.org/donate/dev.html.

The Public Patent Foundation is a US-based non-profit. They fight bad patents and bad patent policy. They argue that software patents are particularly bad and they use the legal system to have bad patents overturned, surrendered or rejected.

SPI is a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. In keeping with the philosophy of donating to meta-projects, SPI (http://www.spi-inc.org/) is a worthy FLOSS Fund nominee for its support of important open source projects including:

Debian: A leading non-commercial distribution, Debian produces a robust, easily configured server platform which serves as the basis of *ubuntu and Knoppix, among others.

PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL is an enterprise class, open-source relational database system.

If you have an interest in Maps, GPS, geocaching, GIS or other location related activities you will find this project interesting.

"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."
-- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page

Kevin Norwood writes (on 2007-01-30):

I would like to nominate Drupal for FLOSS. I do like what they have
done, and what they are doing for the future. I am using the product on
my web site currently, and they do make it fairly easy to setup and
administer the site.

Here is Drupal's contributions page: http://drupal.org/contribute/donations

The Free Software Foundation is "dedicated to promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs." The FSF is the primary sponsor of GNU project which has created many of the open-source tools we enjoy today.

Founded by Richard Stallman, to support the GNU project the FSF also promotes software freedom through various campaigns.