Research Topics
FOSS Foundations are not the only organizations that matter in the software ecosystem. Here are a few other areas we’re interested in researching. This is an open source project that relies on contributors like you to help!
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There are a number of other interesting FOSS legal organizations we'd like help adding to the directory.commonName | website | addressCountry | addressRegion | nonprofitStatus | description |
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Center for Cultivation of Technology | https://www.techcultivation.org | DE | HRB 180673 | Services host for opensource groups | |
Stichting The Commons Conservancy | https://commonsconservancy.org | NL | 67115918 | ||
Foundation For Public Code | https://publiccode.net | NL | registration 74996452 and identification number (RSIN) 860102294 | Dutch Vereniging | |
Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation C.I.C. | https://www.fossi-foundation.org | UK | 09848956 | United Kingdom not-for-profit limited by guarantee | |
Free Knowledge Insititue | http://freeknowledge.eu/ | NL | 34288702 | Dutch Stichting | |
Krita Foundation | https://krita.org/en/about/krita-foundation/ | NL | 56592574 | Stichting Krita Foundation | |
NLNet Foundation | https://nlnet.nl | NL | 41208365 | Netherlands ANBI | |
NLNet Labs Foundation | https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/organisation/ | NL | 34126276 | Netherlands ANBI | |
OASIS Open Europe | https://www.oasis-open.eu | NL | 81197403 | Dutch Stichting | |
Open Doc Society | http://www.opendocsociety.org/ | NL | Not found in lookup | Dutch Stichting | Dead: web host not responding? |
Open Search Foundation e.V. | https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/open-search-foundation-home/ | DE | Munich VR 208036. | German e.V. | |
OpenUK | https://openuk.uk | UK | 11209475 | United Kingdom not-for-profit limited by guarantee | |
OW2 | https://www.ow2.org | FR | French 1901 Non-profit Association | ||
PostgreSQL Europe | https://postgresql.eu | FR | French 1901 Non-profit Association | ||
R Foundation | https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ | AU | Lookup costs a fee | Austrian non-profit association (Verein) | |
Hack Club | https://hackclub.com/ | US | CA | c3 EIN 81-2908499 | Focus on high schools, teens, and hackathons, but lots of fiscal hosting |
PHP Foundation | https://thephp.foundation/foundation/ | US | How should we model well-organized projects with boards (etc) that aren't legal entities at all? They're a collective at OC. | ||
Erlang Ecosystem Foundation | https://www.erlef.org/ | US | CA | EIN 83-3185247 | |
open technology fund | https://www.opentech.fund/ | US | DC | EIN 84-3126447 | |
Prototype Fund | https://prototypefund.de/en/ | DE | German-only applications for grants to open source (funder org primarily) | ||
Godot Foundation | https://godot.foundation/ | NL | Stichting Godot Kvk 87351919 | ||
Commonhaus Foundation | https://www.commonhaus.org/ | US | FL | c6 EIN 84-3279550 Florida N19000010293 | Changed name and now a Java-focused home for long-lived projects |
Spritely Networked Communities Institute | https://spritely.institute/ | US | DE | c3 EIN 87-4257919 | Home of the Spritely Goblins Distributed Programming platform - the core of our vision of a completely decentralised social internet |