We-Think A-Z is the place to see a variety of organizations, people and websites which are a part of the open source movement.
Electric Frontier Foundation (EFF)
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"The EFF is a non-profit advocacy and legal organization based in the United States dedicated to preserving free speech."
Elinor Ostrom
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"Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Part-Time Co-Director, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change", in the USA.
http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/people/homepages/ostrom.html
Eric Raymond
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"Open Source spokesman, and author of the new Hacker's Dictionary"
Feedburner
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"A news aggregator, a piece of software that automatically downloads anything new that appears in the places that interest you. It Allows blog owners and podcasters the ability to manage their RSS feeds and track usage of their subscribers."
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home
FHSST
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Website gives Free High School Science Texts in Math and Science to learners in South Africa.
http://www.fhsst.org/?q=node/81
Fightaids@home
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"An AIDS research project that uses your computer's idle resources to accelerate new anti-HIV drug design."
http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/
Flickr
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A website in which you can search, sort, and share your photos.
Folding@home project
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Folding Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together.
Free Software Foundation
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"The Free Software Foundation (FSF), established in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs."
General Public License
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"The GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software, and to make sure the software is free for all its users."
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
GEO - Grass roots economic organizing
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A "movement for a co-operative social economy based on democratic and responsible production, conscientious consumption, and use of capitol to further social and economic justice."
Ghosh Rishab Aiyer
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"Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (born 1975) is an Open Source Initiative board member. Amongst other things, he is Founding International and Managing Editor of peer-reviewed journal First Monday."
http://www.merit.unu.edu/about/profile.php?id=24
grid2003
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"Grid3 collaboration has deployed an international Data Grid with dozens of sites and thousands of processors"
http://www.ivdgl.org/grid2003/