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Linux Fund Card Progam UpdateMarch 31, 2014Linux Fund's partnership with US Bank will be ending in July 2014. We are presently researching alternative options for card programs and will update the Linux Fund website as details become available. Funds collected via the Linux Fund affinity card program will continue to be distributed to open source projects and the Linux community. To apply for a grant, please contact us via email at donations@linuxfund.org |
Q1 2012 Linux Fund Progam ReportMarch 31, 2012In an effort to increase transparency Linux Fund will now be publishing quarterly reports that document the projects funded by your credit card transactions and direct donations. Our first quarter report for 2012 covers January 1, 2012 through March 31, 2012 and is available online. |
jQuery FoundationMarch 6, 2012Linux Fund is proud to be a founding sponsor of the jQuery foundation. In March 2012, Linux Fund provided initial funding to help cover administrative and infrastructure costs associated with the launch of jQuery's new foundation. |
Linux Fund Board resolves to adopt formal policy for behavior at eventsJanuary 17th, 2010The Linux Fund's Board has resolved to create a formal policy for behavior at events we sponsor. What may seem straightforward is not-at-all-simple to articulate as good-and-workable policy. We are currently seeking community input and feedback. |
Celebrating Community Citizenship Campaign LaunchedDecember 2nd, 2010The challenges of the global economy have provided an unprecedented opportunity for the Open Source community! Many vague considerations to use Open Source have become solid decisions to leverage it and join its amazing community. We're asking new and experienced citizens of this global community to reflect on what they're doing to give back an commit to a long-term giving plan. Linux Fund is here to help you give back and has provided citizens like you innovative tools like the Linux Fund Credit Card since 1999. OGD1 Available Today |
September 23rd, 2010Linux Fund is pleased to announce that the OGD1 reconfigurable computing platform is available for purchase today! Open source developers are welcome to apply to receive one of the ten boards that will be provided free of charge to advance the platform. Buyers are invited to make a donation with their purchase to advance the platform and advance hardware freedom! |
New Hardware Exchange ArrivalsSeptember 10th, 2010Linux Fund would like to thank Free Geek for providing three additional systems to our Hardware Exchange program: An AlphaStation 200, an HP PA-RISC model 712/60 and a Sun UltraSparc Ultra2 creator. We are also pleased to report that we have shipped a PA-RISC system to the OSU Open Source Lab for use by the OpenJDK effort. |
Gnash Memory Manager FundraisingAugust 24th, 2010Linux Fund is raising money to improve the Memory Manager of the Gnash open source Flash® media player in addition to expanding its RTMP media streaming support.
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Inkscape .48 Released!August 23rd, 2010Inkscape .48 has been released and includes Linux Fund's text tool project.
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Gnash 0.8.8 Released!August 22nd, 2010Gnash 0.8.8 has been released and includes Linux Fund's OpenStreetMap project.
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Linux Fund MasterCard® Canada Available Today!June 1st, 2010 – Portland, Oregon
Linux Fund is proud to reintroduce the first Canadian credit card to support open source!
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OGD1 Call for Developers!June 1st, 2010Linux Fund is pleased to announce that the OGD1's have been built and are undergoing testing. Open Source developers are invited to apply to receive one. |
2010 Q2 Program NewsJune 1st, 2010Linux Fund is today launching these programs:
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2010 Q2 Project Status ReportJune 1st, 2010
Please help our Gnash RTMP and gEDA/PCB projects reach their targets with a donation today! |
Linux Fund UK Business Credit Card Available Today!April 30th, 2010
Linux Fund is proud to introduce the first European and Business credit card to support open source: the Linux Fund UK Business Credit Card |
Ubuntu LoCo @ Anime Boston a huge success!April 2nd – 4th, 2010Read Danny Piccirillo's report on this exciting community event. Linux Fund raised over $2,500 for the Massachusetts Ubuntu Local Community Team to attend this event and print 3,000 copies of Ubunchu! to distribute to anime fans from around the world. |
Linux Fund supports IDLELO 2010February 19th, 2010Linux Fund is raising money for the Training and Community Summit sessions of FOSSFA's IDLELO 2010 conference this May in Accra, Ghana. This money will provide infrastructure for these sessions and bring training specialists from around Africa to this leading African open source event. |
2010 Q1 Project Status ReportFebruary 19th, 2010While 2009 was a challenging year across the nonprofit sector, we are pleased to report that our:
Please help our Gnash RTMP and gEDA/PCB projects reach their targets with a donation today! |
BSD Fund a BSDCan 2010 SponsorDecember 18th, 2009BSD Fund is proud to be a Bronze sponsor of BSDCan 2010 using funds raised exclusively with the BSD Fund Visa. |
Linux Fund and FOSSFA to Support Open Source in AfricaDecember 14th, 2009Linux Fund and the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) have pledged to work together to promote Free and Open Source Software in Africa. Under this agreement, Linux Fund will provide financial and administrative support to projects and events throughout Africa. |
Ubuntu LoCo @ Anime Boston 2010November 23rd, 2009Linux Fund has partnered with the Boston Ubuntu Local Community Team to raise money for it to exhibit at the upcoming Anime Boston 2010 convention in April. Please help these communities meet! |
Free Supercomputing 2009 Passes!November 10th, 2009Linux Fund is giving away free passes to the Supercomputing 2009 Convention this month in Portland on a first come, first serve basis. Mail your name and company name to passes@linuxfund.org if you want one! |
Gnash on FLOSS WeeklyNovember 7th, 2009FLOSS Weekly has a great interview with Rob Savoye of the Gnash project plus an urgent call for donations to Open Media Now! and Linux Fund's Gnash Projects. Open Media Now! is the foundation behind Gnash that suffered a major funding cut in 2008. Please help Gnash reach 1.0! |
www.linuxfund.org moves to OSUOSLNovember 2nd, 2009Linux Fund has proudly moved our web site to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab! We would like to thank the OSL and its sponsors for maintaining this indispensable community resource. |
LinuxCon 2009 and 10th Anniversary Event PortlandSeptember 21st – 23rd, 2009Many thanks to everyone who stopped by our table at the 1st Annual LinuxCon and who came to our 10th Anniversary Event. Photos are now online on our photo album! |
Linux Fund 10 Year Anniversary Event PhotosJuly 22nd, 2009Our sincere thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth at OSCON and attended our ten year anniversary event! The turnout and response were awesome. Many thanks to our sponsors Kaltura and MindTouch plus Motif Lounge for making this event possible. Visit our photo album to see Anniversary Event and OSCON photos by our own
Randal Schwartz and Scott Rainey, plus OSCON photographer Pinar Ozger.
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Linux Fund joins Open Source for AmericaJuly 22nd, 2009We are pleased to announce that Linux Fund is a founding member of Open Source for America, a new organization that exists to promote free and open software to the U.S. Federal Government.
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LiVES 1.0 LaunchedJuly 22nd, 2009We are pleased to announce that LiVES 1.0 is available today thanks to the contributions of 18 donors in 7 countries. Thank you for your contributions! |
Congratulations to our winners of the OSCON 2009 Session Passes!July 21st, 2009Congratulations to Twitter users Leo Susanto @nyet and Risto Haukioja @risto who followed @linuxfund to win the two OSCON 2009 Session Passes that were kindly donated by Matt and Sharon @oscon of O'Reilly Media. |
Update: PathScale Compiler AcquisitionJuly 10th, 2009Our bid for the PathScale EKO compiler suite was not accepted but we are optimistic that the software will liberated. We would like to thank everyone who donated towards this effort. |
BSD Fund Visa Available TodayJune 25th, 2009Linux 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 AwardsJune 22nd, 2009Linux 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, 2009The 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, 2009Linux 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, 2009Linux 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 event at OSCON 2009June 1st, 2009Linux Fund will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a benefit event on July 22nd at 8PM during OSCON 2009 in San Jose, California. Our goal is to raise money while having a blast. Stop by our booth at OSCON for a t-shirt and ticket! |
Linux Fund raises money to improve Gnash OpenStreetMap supportApril 22nd, 2009Linux 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, 2009Linux 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 developersMarch 30th, 2009Linux 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 DirectorsMarch 30th, 2009Linux Fund is proud to welcome open source journalist, author and developer Randal L. Schwartz to its Board of Directors. |
Linux Fund supports the Inkscape ProjectFebruary 20th, 2009Linux 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 DirectorsFebruary 20th, 2009Linux Fund is proud to welcome community activist and coordinator Ilan Rabinovitch to its Board of Directors. |
Linux Fund supports the Gnash/RTMP ProjectDecember 15th, 2008Linux 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 ProjectDecember 8th, 2008Linux 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, 2008Linux 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, 2008All 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 CenterSeptember 30th, 2008Linux Fund has disbursed a $500 grant to the Software Freedom Law Center. |
Linux Fund supports the LiVES projectAugust 20th, 2008Linux 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 projectAugust 15th, 2008Linux Fund has partnered with the VectorSection graphics translator project to add .dwg support. |
LinuxFund.org redesign features on-line donatingAugust 15th, 2008We are pleased to introduce our new web site featuring Google Checkout and PayPal on-line donation options. |
Announcing BSD FundNovember 29th, 2007Linux 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 ApprovedSeptember 15th, 2007We 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 LaunchedJuly 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 relationshipJune 30th, 2007"We want to thank MBNA and BofA for all of the support they have given us since 1999." – David Mandel, Executive Director |
The Linux Fund UK Business Credit Card is issued by MBNA Europe Bank Limited, Registered Office: Stansfield House, Chester Business Park, Chester CH4 9QQ. Registered in England number 2783251. Credit is available subject to status, only to UK residents aged 18 or over. We will monitor or record some phone calls. MBNA’s business lending activities that are licensed by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and our general insurance activities are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).