User:Christophe
Organizations from the free software and civil liberties ecosystems
Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung (AK Vorrat)
"The Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung (German Working Group on Data Retention) is an association of civil rights campaigners, data protection activists and Internet users. The Arbeitskreis coordinates the campaign against the introduction of data retention in Germany."
Chaos Computer Club
"The Chaos Computer Club e. V. (CCC) is Europe's largest association of hackers. For more than thirty years we are providing information about technical and societal issues, such as surveillance, privacy, freedom of information, hacktivism, data security and many other interesting things around technology and hacking issues."
Apache Foundation
"The Apache Software Foundation, a US 501(3)(c) non-profit corporation, provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of over 140 open source software projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits potential legal exposure for our project committers."
Eclipse Foundation
"Eclipse is a community for individuals and organizations who wish to collaborate on commercially-friendly open source software. Its projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle."
Python Software Foundation (PSF)
"The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that holds the intellectual property rights behind the Python programming language. We manage the open source licensing for Python version 2.1 and later and own and protect the trademarks associated with Python."
XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF)
"The XMPP Standards Foundation (formerly the Jabber Software Foundation) is an independent, nonprofit standards development organization whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF’s Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)."
Tacticaltech
"Tactical Tech is an organisation dedicated to the use of information in activism. We focus on the use of data, design and technology in campaigning through our Evidence & Action programme and on helping activists understand and manage their digital security and privacy risks through our Privacy & Expression programme."
Riseup
"Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications."
Wau Holland Stiftung
"Wir sind eine Stiftung im Umfeld des Chaos Computer Clubs, die vom Vater und engen Freunden des verstorbenen Datenphilosophen Wau Holland gegründet wurde. Unser Wunsch ist es, die freidenkerischen Ansätze Wau Hollands zu bewahren und weiterzuführen."
Mozilla Foundation
"The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes openness, innovation and participation on the Internet. (...) Mozilla is best known for the Firefox browser, but we advance our mission through other software projects, grants and engagement and education efforts such as Mozilla Webmaker."
Digitalcourage e.V. (FoeBuD)
"Digitalcourage e.V. engagiert sich seit 1987 für Bürgerrechte, Datenschutz und eine lebenswerte Welt im digitalen Zeitalter. Wir sind technikaffin, doch wir wehren uns dagegen, dass unsere Demokratie „verdatet und verkauft“ wird. Wir klären auf und mischen uns in Politik ein. Seit 2000 verleihen wir jährlich die BigBrotherAwards."
Free Software Foundation (FSF)
"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users."
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
"Free Software Foundation Europe is dedicated to the furthering of Free Software and working for freedom in the emerging digital society. Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society."
Free Software Support Network (FSSN)
"The Free Software Support Network (FSSN) is a tax-exempt charitable corporation which collaborates with other free software non-profits to provide efficient administration and financial management for free software producers."
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
"EFF fights for freedom primarily in the courts, bringing and defending lawsuits even when that means taking on the US government or large corporations. By mobilizing more than 140,000 concerned citizens through our Action Center, EFF beats back bad legislation. In addition to advising policymakers, EFF educates the press and public."
Open Source Initiative (OSI)
"The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a global non-profit that supports and promotes the open source movement. Among other things, we maintain the Open Source Definition, and a list of licenses that comply with that definition. See our about and history pages for more."
Software Freedom Law Center
"The Software Freedom Law Center provides pro-bono legal services to developers of Free, Libre, and Open Source Software."
Open Source Business Alliance
"Die Open Source Business Alliance – kurz OSB Alliance – ist Europas größtes Netzwerk von Unternehmen und Organisationen, die Open Source Software entwickeln, darauf aufbauen oder sie anwenden. Ziel der OSB Alliance ist es, Open Source Software und andere Formen offener Zusammenarbeit erfolgreicher zu machen. Die OSB Alliance verwirklicht Ihre Ziele durch das Verbreiten von Informationen, das Schaffen von positiven Rahmenbedingungen für Hersteller und Anwender, sowie durch das aktive Vernetzen von Herstellern, Kunden und Dienstleistern."
Xiph.org Foundation
"The Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests. Our purpose is to support and develop free, open protocols and software to serve the public, developer and business markets."
CAcert Inc.
"CAcert.org is a community driven Certificate Authority that issues certificates to the public at large for free. CAcert's goal is to promote awareness and education on computer security through the use of encryption, specifically with the X.509 family of standards."
OpenPGP Alliance
"The OpenPGP Alliance brings companies together to pursue a common goal of promoting the same standard for email encryption and to apply the PKI that has emerged from the OpenPGP community to other non-email applications.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
"The mission of the IETF is to make the Internet work better by producing high quality, relevant technical documents that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet."
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web. [...] W3C's primary activity is to develop protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web. W3C's standards define key parts of what makes the World Wide Web work."
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
"The WHATWG works on a number of technologies that widely get referred to by the buzzword "HTML5". They are organised somewhat arbitrarily based on the preferences of those editing the specifications for those technologies."
Stiftung bridge
"Die Stiftung bridge ist eine Treuhandstiftung unter dem Dach der Bewegungsstiftung. Beide Stiftungen lassen sich - wie auch zukünftige Stiftungen unter dem Dach der Bewegungsstiftung - von der Maxime leiten, dass wichtige Impulse zu einer progressiven gesellschaftlichen Veränderung von sozialen Bewegungen ausgehen. (...) Die Stiftung bridge nimmt dabei aber ein gesellschaftliches Problemfeld besonderer Bedeutung auf: die Bürgerrechte in der digitalen Gesellschaft."
Humanistische Union
"Die Humanistische Union ist eine unabhängige Bürgerrechtsorganisation. (...) Im Mittelpunkt steht für uns die Achtung der Menschenwürde. Wir engagieren uns für das Recht auf freie Entfaltung der Persönlichkeit und wenden uns gegen jede unverhältnismäßige Einschränkung dieses Rechts durch Staat, Wirtschaft oder Kirchen."
Arbeitskreis gegen Internet-Sperren und Zensur (AK Zensur)
"Der AK Zensur wendet sich gegen Netz-Sperren und Internetzensur und gegen den schleichenden Aufbau einer dazu dienenden Infrastruktur."
Zwiebelfreunde
"Der Zwiebelfreunde e.V. ist ein 2011 gegründeter gemeinnütziger Verein, der sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat Technologie im Bereich Anonymität, Privatsphäre und Sicherheit im Internet zu fördern, zur Nutzung bereit zu stellen und deren Verbreitung zu unterstützen. Der Zwiebelfreunde e.V. betreibt unter anderem das erfolgreiche Torservers.net Projekt."
Open Invention Network
"Open Invention Network is an intellectual property company that was formed to promote Linux by using patents to create a collaborative environment. (...) Patents owned by Open Invention Network are available royalty-free to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux System."