The GNU PDF project is developing a free, high-quality and fully functional set of libraries and programs that implement the PDF file format and associated technologies to the coming ISO standard, ISO 32000.
Why? Isn't PDF support "fine"?
According to José Marchesi, quoted by Bruce Byfield missing or incomplete features in Free Software PDF implementations include:
Have you ever wished that you computer would boot faster? Ever wondered what all that stuff was that happened before the login appeared? Want to get rid of the proprietary FIRMWARE in your BIOS? Well then you want to know more about LinuxBIOS.
LinuxBIOS is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers.
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