Linux Fund News

BSD Fund Visa Available Today

June 25th, 2009

Linux Fund is pleased to announce that the BSD Fund Visa is now available in the USA. Support BSD-related events, development and initiatives by applying today!

LiVES Nominated for the SourceForge Community Choice Awards

June 22nd, 2009

Linux fund is pleased to report that the LiVES project has been nominated as a candidate for "Best Project for Multimedia" in the 2009 SourceForge Community Choice Awards. We invite you to vote for your favorite open source projects!

$500 in Inkscape grant matching!

June 18th, 2009

The next $500 in donations to our Inkscape project will be matched thanks to the help of an anonymous donor! Please help improve this excellent design software.

OGD1 initial fundraising goal reached!

June 15th, 2009

Linux Fund is pleased to report that a $250 donation to the OGD1 brought us to the initial goal of $5,000! Component sourcing is underway and any additional funds will go to additional cards for developers!

$20,000 in donations since August!

June 15th, 2009

Linux Fund is pleased to report that a $10 donation from Romania to gEDA/PCB pushed us past the $20,000 milestone for direct donations since August 2008. Our sincere thanks to our donor community in 36 countries!

Linux Fund 10 year anniversary benefit party at OSCON 2009

June 1st, 2009

Linux Fund will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a benefit party on July 22nd at 8PM during OSCON 2009 in San Jose, California. Our goal is to raise money while having a blast thanks to the help of board member and legendary party planner of Randal Schwartz. Stop by our booth at OSCON for a t-shirt and ticket!

Linux Fund raises money to improve Gnash OpenStreetMap support

April 22nd, 2009

Linux Fund has expanded its partnership with Sandro Santilli of the Gnash media player team to improve the OpenStreetMap editing support in this open source Flash® player.

$15,000 in donations since August!

April 15th, 2009

Linux Fund is pleased to report that it has received over $15,000 in direct donations since August 2008 from a total of 31 countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Thank you donors!

Linux Fund helps build ten OGD1 open source video cards for developers

March 30th, 2009

Linux Fund has partnered with the Open Graphics Project to build ten OGD1 programmable open hardware graphics devices for driver and application development.

Randal L. Schwartz joins Linux Fund Board of Directors

March 30th, 2009

Linux Fund is proud to welcome open source journalist, author and developer Randal L. Schwartz to its Board of Directors.

Linux Fund supports the Inkscape Project

February 20th, 2009

Linux Fund has partnered with Milosz Derezynski of the Inkscape team to improve the text dialog of this open source vector graphics editor.

Ilan Rabinovitch joins the Linux Fund Board of Directors

February 20th, 2009

Linux Fund is proud to welcome community activist and coordinator Ilan Rabinovitch to its Board of Directors.

Linux Fund supports the Gnash/RTMP Project

December 15th, 2008

Linux Fund has partnered with Sandro Santilli of the Gnash media player team to bring Real Time Messaging Protocol support to this open source Flash® player.

Linux Fund supports the gEDA/PCB Project

December 8th, 2008

Linux Fund has partnered with DJ Delorie of the gEDA/PCB team to enhance the features and usability of this open-source circuit board design software, and widen its deployment amongst educators, researchers, and engineers.

Over $10,000 in donations since August!

December 1st, 2008

Linux Fund is pleased to report that it has received over $10,000 in direct donations since August 2008, 100% of which is going to our projects. Please join the more than 80 people who have chosen Linux Fund this year!

Year-End LiVES donation matching!

October 1st, 2008

All donations made to LiVES through the end of 2008 will be mached, up to a total of $500.

Linux Fund supports the Software Freedom Law Center

September 30th, 2008

Linux Fund has disbursed a $500 grant to the Software Freedom Law Center.

Linux Fund supports the LiVES project

August 20th, 2008

Linux Fund has partnered with the LiVES "LiVES is a Video Editing System" project to bring it to 1.0 status.

Linux Fund supports the VectorSection project

August 15th, 2008

Linux Fund has partnered with the VectorSection graphics translator project to add .dwg support.

LinuxFund.org redesign features on-line donating

August 15th, 2008

We are pleased to introduce our new web site featuring Google Checkout and PayPal on-line donation options.

Announcing BSD Fund

November 29th, 2007

Linux Fund is expanding its reach with the formation of BSD Fund which will allow for tax-deductible donations to various BSD-related projects.

501(c)(3) Status Approved

September 15th, 2007

We are pleased to announce that the Linux Fund, Inc. is now an approved 501(c)(3) tax-deductible charity under US tax law. "This represents the ideal compliment to our Carry the Card and allows us to benefit open source projects better than ever." – David Mandel, Executive Director

New Linux Fund Visa Card Launched

July 1st, 2007

"It's back, and better than ever" - David Mandel, Executive Director. We are pleased to announce the re-introduction of the Linux Fund Visa Card with a great new partner, US Bank. We now offer Student and Executive cards with a choice of rewards options.

Linux Fund and MBNA / Bank of America conclude their affinity card relationship

June 30th, 2007

"We want to thank MBNA and BofA for all of the support they have given us since 1999." – David Mandel, Executive Director