Linux Fund Strategic Capital Projects
These capital projects are designed to achieve project and event milestones with an emphasis on bringing specific open source software from promising to production 1.0 status.
Expanded Project: Gnash Memory Manager
Advancing Open Source Multimedia
Gnash is an open implementation of the Adobe® Flash® family of multimedia formats.
Linux Fund has successfully raised money to add OpenStreetMap support to Gnash by implementing the non-blocking loading of bitmap movies.
Linux Fund is now raising money to improve the Gnash Memory Manager in addition to its Gnash RTMP effort to bring Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) support to Gnash. More information
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FOSSFA
Advancing Open Source in Africa
Linux Fund is helping the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa to reach Western audiences through awareness and fundraising for their events and programs. More information
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OGD1 Reconfigurable Computing Platform
Advancing Open Hardware
Linux Fund has successfully raised money to buy 10 Open Graphics Device v1 open hardware video platforms for open source developers around the world and make 15 more available for sale. More information
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VectorSection
Advancing Open Source Computer Aided Design
VectorSection is a vector graphics translation system with support for a wide variety of vector graphics data formats including the de facto .dwg format of the Computer Aided Design (CAD) industry. This project is being revised to improve the specification of the Open Vector Drafting standard. More information
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Completed Project: Inkscape
Advancing Open Source Desktop Publishing
Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor that natively uses the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Linux Fund has successfully raised money to enhance Inkscape's text tool to provide numeric control over kerning and other essential text attributes. This work was included in the August, 2010 release of Inkscape .48. More information
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Completed Project: gEDA/PCB
Advancing Open Source Electronic Design Automation
PCB is the circuit board layout component of the gEDA open source Electronics Design Automation suite, a complete set of tools for electronics design, simulation and pre-production.
Linux Fund has successfully raised money to improved the project import features of this sophisticated electrical engineering tool. More information
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