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.
gPodder is a program for organizing, subscribing to downloading, and tracking your podcast subscriptions. It is intended for use on a desktop or on a mobile device, like the N810/N900 from Nokia.
It can play video or audio content, and like a good Unix program it calls an external player to player your media.
They accept donations here http://gpodder.org/donate.html, either directly through PayPal or by some gift lists that the authors maintain.
We last nominated OSU OSL in 2007. http://kwlug.org/node/504
OSU OSL continues to provide hosting services for many important and well known F/LOSS projects. Linux, Apache, Drupal, Centos, Cacti, Debian, Fedora, Gnome, KDE, and many many more...
They do so much to make infrastructure problems go away for projects that we care about. It's time to pitch in and help OSU OSL again. And to say thank you for helping to build a strong F/LOSS community.
We can make a donation via credit card. See the contributions page. http://osuosl.org/donate
VLC is a really great, cross-platform media player. It can handle just about any media format you can imagine out of the box. It can also stream media in many exciting ways, and can act as a video on demand server. It's so versatile, it can probably even bake bread.
They accept donations by Paypal.
It's somewhat startling to realize OpenWRT wasn't nominated long ago ...
From http://openwrt.org/:
- OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices.
Contributions - cash or equipment, but apparently to SPI, with instructions to forward to OpenWRT, instead of OpenWRT directly:
- https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/SupportDonate - includes credit card payment means. No obvious PayPal mechanism sticks out.