Initiatives

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Manjaro

Manjaro Linux is a community-focused Linux distribution derived from Arch Linux. It aims to provide a usable and accessible Linux desktop and meet the needs of its community with a pragmatic approach. Manjaro is an accessible, friendly, open-source Linux distribution and community. Based on Arch Linux, Manjaro provides all the benefits of cutting-edge software combined with a focus on getting started quickly, automated tools to require less manual intervention, and help readily available when needed. Manjaro is suitable for both newcomers and experienced Linux users.

$25K / $75K34% funded

576 supporters

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KiCad

KiCad is a full featured electronic development application (EDA). The goal of the project is to provide the best possible electronics design tool for commercial and community users and to help foster the adoption of open hardware designs.

$160K / $40K100% funded

430 supporters

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Laminas Project

The Laminas Project is the open source continuation of Zend Framework, an enterprise-level PHP web and API framework. We provide the libraries and tools to create mission-critical web presence.

$29K / $40K73% funded

77 supporters

General Fund

CNCF for Ukraine

CNCF stands in solidarity with Ukraine. The humanitarian crisis unfolding since the invasion of Ukraine has shocked the world. The global cloud native community is rallying to support Ukraine and our friends, family and colleagues whose lives have been forever changed. Our fund will be split equally between two charities doing incredible work: Razom for Ukraine (https://www.razomforukraine.org//) and Operation Dvoretskyi (https://www.operationdvoretskyi.org/). Please donate today and support our Ukraine community.

$24K / $10K100% funded

68 supporters

Mentorship

Mailu

Mailu is a simple yet full-featured mail server as a set of Docker images. It is free software (both as in free beer and as in free speech), open to suggestions and external contributions. The project aims at providing people with an easily setup, easily maintained and full-featured mail server while not shipping proprietary software nor unrelated features often found in popular groupware. Main features include: - Standard email server, IMAP and IMAP+, SMTP and Submission - Advanced email features, aliases, domain aliases, custom routing - Web access, multiple Webmails and administration interface - User features, aliases, auto-reply, auto-forward, fetched accounts - Admin features, global admins, announcements, per-domain delegation, quotas - Security, enforced TLS, Letsencrypt!, outgoing DKIM, anti-virus scanner - Antispam, auto-learn, greylisting, DMARC and SPF - Freedom, all FOSS components, no tracker included

$4K / $20K18% funded

50 supporters

General Fund

LF Energy in Memory of Dr. Shuli Goodman

LF Energy has a mission to support society and the planet. The LF Energy ecosystem is designed and engineered to support rapid decarbonization that benefits the environment, enables economic prosperity, and leads to social well-being for future generations. Our founder, Dr. Shuli Goodman, believed that the only way to achieve decarbonization and prevent the worst impacts of climate change is to rebuild the world's energy systems to leverage renewable energy and new technologies. Shuli passed away on January 3, 2023 and her family has asked that anyone wishing to honor her memory and legacy contribute to LF Energy's operations to ensure that her vision becomes a reality. Funds contributed will go to support scholarships and travel funding to LF Energy events, training programs and mentorships, research projects, and other community activities and general LF Energy operations and project support.

$10K / $10K100% funded

41 supporters

Mentorship

Jenkins

Jenkins is an open source automation server. It provides thousands of plugins to support building, testing, deploying and automating virtually any project at any scale. Your donations help to keep the project going and to accelerate its evolution. More information about how we use donations: https://jenkins.io/donate/

$25K / $27K91% funded

40 supporters

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RethinkDB

RethinkDB is the first open-source scalable database built for realtime applications. It exposes a new database access model -- instead of polling for changes, the developer can tell the database to continuously push updated query results to applications in realtime. RethinkDB allows developers to build scalable realtime apps in a fraction of the time with less effort.

$18K / $25K74% funded

34 supporters

General Fund

2023 Ukraine Kubernetes Community Day Fundraiser

KCD Ukraine 2023 stands in solidarity with Ukraine. The humanitarian crisis unfolding since the invasion of Ukraine has shocked the world. The global cloud native community is rallying to support Ukraine and our friends, family and colleagues whose lives have been forever changed. Our fund will be split equally between two charities doing incredible work: Razom for Ukraine (https://www.razomforukraine.org//) and Operation Dvoretskyi (https://www.operationdvoretskyi.org/). Please donate today and support our Ukraine community.

$8K / $110K7% funded

32 supporters

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HiGHS

HiGHS is the world's best open-source linear optimization software, with industry standard benchmarks demonstrating that its interior point solver (IPX) for large scale linear programming (LP) problems offers significantly better performance than other popular open-source software. This has been acclaimed by users who had, previously, been unable to solve problems of interest without expensive licensed commercial software. However, for certain classes of practical LP problems, HiGHS still lags well behind the leading commercial solvers. The aim of this project is to close this gap by enhancing IPX in two stages. The first stage will see IPX adapted to use the existing, more efficient, sparse numerical linear algebra system in HiGHS, rather than the system written when IPX was first developed. This will require several weeks of work by an expert developer at a cost of approximately $27k. In cases where IPX has identified inefficiencies, it is anticipated that this will improve its performance by a factor of 2-4. The second stage will develop an entirely new alternative sparse numerical linear algebra option to solve practical LPs where IPX is currently prohibitively inefficient. This is a considerable undertaking, requiring 12 months’ work by a skilled developer and consultancy input, at a cost of approximately $114k. In the case of such LP problems, it is anticipated that the performance of IPX will be enhanced by one or two orders of magnitude.

$5K / $141K4% funded

30 supporters

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KaOS, A Lean KDE Distribution

The idea behind KaOS is to create a tightly integrated rolling and transparent distribution for the modern desktop, build from scratch with a very specific focus. Focus on one DE (KDE Plasma), one toolkit (Qt), one architecture (x86_64) plus a focus on evaluating and selecting the most suitable tools and applications.

$2K / $2K98% funded

26 supporters

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StackStorm

StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is an Open Source Event-Driven Automation platform that helps solving DevOps and SRE problems with Auto-Remediation, Deployments, Infrastructure as Code, Troubleshooting, Automated Security Responses and more. It includes Workflow Engine, ChatOps and over 100 integrations with different tools, services and platforms (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org/). StackStorm enables organizations worldwide to benefit from Self-healing Infrastructure capabilities, Automation and DevOps best practices in their production environments. The project was founded in 2014, experienced several acquisitions and is part of the Linux Foundation today. StackStorm includes a lot of components and relies on many platforms and services (see project expenses: https://github.com/StackStorm/discussions/issues/36) that makes it a great and complete quality product you love. We need your help in supporting StackStorm and helping it evolve!

$6K / $2K100% funded

22 supporters