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Example Open Source Foundations
A short list of other foundations that support open source software projects.
| Foundation | Mission Statement | Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| Plone | "We are modeled after similar ventures, such as the Apache Software Foundation, and will be providing support for the development and marketing of Plone. In addition, the Foundation will be the legal owner of the Plone code, trademarks, and domain names." | Support development, marketing, legal ownership |
| WikiMedia | "The goals of the Wikimedia foundation are to develop and maintain open content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge." | Maintain, collect, protect open content |
| Open Source Applications Foundation | "Create and gain wide adoption of Open Source application software of uncompromising quality." | Manage specific sub-projects |
| Open Source Initiative | "a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program" | Manage defining documents, promotion of OSS in general |
| Free Software Foundation | "dedicated to promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free software, particularly the GNU operating system, used widely in its GNU/Linux variant. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues surrounding freedom in the use of software." | Speaking engagements/promotion, GNU development funding? |
| Mozilla | "Non-profit corporation set up to ensure the long term vitality of Mozilla technology" | Hires staff to maintain continuity, raises funds through consultation |
| Apache | "The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects" | Mainly as legal cover for developers, maintain copyright, some resources for hardware, etc. No full time staff. Incubator adds code adoption process. |
| Python | "The PSF owns the intellectual property of Python 2.1 and newer versions. We also run PyCon annually, and fund Python related development with our grants program." | Development grants, conference org and copyright holders. |
| Perl | "The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code." | Grants, conferences, fund drive, news |
| Jabber Software Foundation | "to create the world's best protocols for instant messaging, presence, and other forms of near-real-time communication based on XML." | protocol development, manage proposed changes |
| R Project Foundation | " Provide support for the R project and other innovations in statistical computing..." | support, development, reference point, copyright holder |
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