This is the list of FLOSS Fund Nominees. [derived from the FLOSS Fund Draft and earlier nomination schemes.]
LUG members start the process by submitting information about projects they would like to consider for a contribution. Here is the required information:
* The name of the project, and its URL
* A short description of what makes this project cool, and why it is worth supporting.
* Contact information for the project developers.
* The form of contributions the project accepts (money, T-shirts, pizza, etc.) and the means by which we can make contributions.
The submitted projects go into a pool and are given a score. Part of the score comes from the LUG: for example, if we feature this software in a LUG meeting, the score for that project goes up. Another part of the score comes from voting by LUG members.
Each month, we pick the project with the highest score and collectively show our appreciation for that project.
Drupal is community drive open source web content management system (CMS). It is a powerful, flexible and customizable web applications framework as well.
Sites using this CMS from around the Waterloo Region are many, including KWLUG's own site, Engineers Without Borders (Waterloo Chapter), Cambridge LUG, internal site for The Working Centre, and many more.
OpenOffice.org 2 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Let's contribute to OpenOffice.org as their approach their 3.0 release.
Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web development environment. The vision with Quanta has always been to start with the best architectural foundations, design for efficient and natural use and enable maximal user extensibility. We recognize that we don't have the resources to do everything we would like to so our target is to make it easy for you to help make this the best community based desktop application anywhere. Pretty much everything in Quanta is designed so you can extend it. Even the way it handles XML DTDs is based on XML files you can edit.
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
The Apache Foundation supports many of the most widely used FLOSS projects. The Apache HTTP server and the Java application server Tomcat are two of the most well known examples, but the Apache Foundation supports some other really great projects as well, such as POI (Java classes for creating/modifying MS Office documents), Xerces (XML parser), and the ANT build tool.
Donation link: http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html#Paypal
The Mozilla Foundation supports the development of software many of us use every day such as Firefox, Thunderbird and Bugzilla.
Donation link: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/donate.html
The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization with the purpose of archiving digital information. As they describe in their about page they are working to ensure that our digital cultural artifacts will not be lost over time, and helping to improve access to literature and other non-digital information by working to digitize it.