Floss Fund Nominees

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.

Unpaper

Submitted by pnijjar on Sun, 2012-02-19 00:07

John Kerr would like to nominate Unpaper, a program to clean up scanned images. It tries to make images cleaner for OCR, removes black borders from scans, and straightens out scans.

The project accepts PayPal donations.

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TestDisk & PhotoRec

Submitted by chrisirwin on Wed, 2012-01-11 14:25

TestDisk & PhotoRec are two tools used to recover data from damaged or failing disks and memory cards. TestDisk can scan disks and recover partitions, repair boot sectors, and much more. PhotoRec scans partitions (such as a failing or corrupted SD card) to recover files.

Both are extremely powerful, useful, and licensed under the GPL v2+.

Website: www.cgsecurity.org
Donations: www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Donation

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Ubuntu

Submitted by pnijjar on Sun, 2011-12-04 06:57

Did you know that the popular Ubuntu distribution accepts donations? It does: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/donate .

Many of us either use Ubuntu or got started on our Linux journeys with Ubuntu, so hopefully this project is worthy of some FLOSS Fund love.

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GParted

Submitted by Raul Suarez on Fri, 2011-09-09 23:27

Given the nature of the people that attend the KWLUG, there is a high likelyhood that most of us have more than one distribution and/or disk partition to play with in the same hard drive.

GParted is a free disk partition editor that allows creating, deleting, rezising and moving partions.

It enables you to reorganize your disk partitions while preserving the contents of these partitions.

It is one of those rare Graphical tools that provide as much flexibility and power as their command line counterparts, reducing the anxiety associated with mesing up with your data.

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XBMC

Submitted by acant on Fri, 2011-09-09 12:56

HTPC is always a popular topic for KWLUG presentations, so a nomination for one of the projects that we have seen seems in order.

XMBC is a project which can run your HTPC or function as a media player on your computer. As they describe themselves:

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PostgreSQL

Submitted by acant on Fri, 2011-09-09 12:23

PostgreSQL is and open source relational database with a reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs everywhere and has an activity community of and used.

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JQuery Project

Submitted by acant on Fri, 2011-09-09 11:54

The JQuery project now supports the original JQuery javascript library as well as newer libraries for unit testing and UI development. The have even extracted their well known CSS selector library.

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curl and libcurl

Submitted by acant on Mon, 2011-08-22 20:57

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.

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Ardour

Submitted by acant on Mon, 2011-08-22 16:01

From Ardour's manual:

Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation program suitable for professional use. It features unlimited audio tracks and buses, non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, and anything-to-anywhere signal routing. It supports standard file formats, such as BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF and CAF, and it can use LADSPA, LV2, VST and AudioUnit plugin formats.

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MusicBrainz

Submitted by acant on Wed, 2011-08-17 22:52

Musicbrainz is a project building a creative commons database of music(specifically cd) metadata. They also make all of the software that they use to maintain this database available as GPL.

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