Software in the Public Interest (SPI, Inc.)

Website: https://www.spi-inc.org/

Description:

Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a non-profit corporation registered in the state of New York founded to act as a fiscal sponsor for organizations that develop open source software and hardware. Our mission is to help substantial and significant open source projects by handling their non-technical administrative tasks so that they aren't required to operate their own legal entity.

POC: Chris Lamb
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Salesforce

Software Freedom Conservancy

Website: http://sfconservancy.org

Description:

Conservancy is a resourceful, non-profit organization dedicated to helping people take control of their computing experience by growing the software freedom movement, supporting community-driven alternatives to proprietary software and defending free software builders with practical initiatives. Conservancy believes that the future of software should be for everyone.

POC: Karen Sandler
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Salesforce

Free Software Foundation

Website: https://www.fsf.org

Description:

The Free Software Foundation works to be defend and promote computer users' rights.

POC: John Sullivan
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: All Things Open

Apache Software Foundation 

Website: http://apache.org

Description:

Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is the world’s largest Open Source foundation, stewarding 227M+ lines of code and providing more than $20B+ worth of software to the public at 100% no cost. The ASF’s all-volunteer community grew from 21 original founders overseeing the Apache HTTP Server to 813 individual Members and 206 Project Management Committees who successfully lead 350+ Apache projects and initiatives in collaboration with 7,800+ Committers through the ASF’s meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way". Apache software is integral to nearly every end user computing device, from laptops to tablets to mobile devices across enterprises and mission-critical applications. Apache projects power most of the Internet, manage exabytes of data, execute teraflops of operations, and store billions of objects in virtually every industry. The commercially-friendly and permissive Apache License v2 is an Open Source industry standard, helping launch billion dollar corporations and benefiting countless users worldwide. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Anonymous, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Handshake, Huawei, IBM, Inspur, Pineapple Fund, Red Hat, Target, Tencent, Union Investment, Verizon Media, and Workday. For more information, visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF

POC: Sally Khudairi
Contact Email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Glyptodon

GNOME Foundation

Website: https://gnome.org

Description:

GNOME is a popular desktop environment you might find if you're running distributions like Debian, Endless, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu. In addition to helping people navigate their computers, we support the development of software like GStreamer, GTK, and a number of apps for the GNOME ecosystem. However, we do so much more. We run conferences in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, hackfests, and newcomer events. We provide travel sponsorships for people presenting at conferences. We mentor and fund internships for people ready to take their first (or next) steps in FOSS. The GNOME community is about the people there and coming together to make things that are really great.

POC: Molly de Blanc
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor:  All Things Open

Women in Tech Allies

Website: https://womenintechallies.com/

Description:

Women in Tech Allies (WITA) advocates for diversity in technology through networking, tech talks, mentorship and more. We look for opportunities to support our current peers in tech, women attempting to transition into tech from other backgrounds, as well as helping our youth grow into future tech leaders.

POC: Susan Wands
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Sauce Labs

Bridge Foundry

Website: https://bridgefoundry.org/

Description:

Bridge Foundry empowers people with technology through teaching and facilitating access, enlarging the community of people who give back and teach others. Their primary focus is on expanding diversity in specific technology communities, which they call "bridges". Each bridge focuses on a specific technology, or set of technologies, and shares open source curriculum and program materials with chapters across multiple geographies. Bridge Foundry supplies tools and operational support to the leaders of these chapters.

POC: Melissa Xie
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Google

OASIS Open

Website: https://oasis-open-projects.org/projects

Description:

OASIS Open gives today's open source communities a new alternative for foundation-level support. Widely regarded as one of the top standards organizations in the world, OASIS Open has a track record of helping groups produce work that is recognized by ISO, IEC, ITU, and other de jure bodies, trusted by governments, and referenced in global policy and procurement.

Through its Open Projects program, OASIS helps communities with everything from licensing to collaboration tools, from governance to consensus building, from funding to outreach. Current OASIS Open Projects include Ethereum Oasis, Baseline Protocol, Open Cybersecurity Alliance, OSLC, and others.

For details on how to get involved in one of these projects, transition an existing group, or start something new, contact [email protected].

POC: Jane Harnad
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Website: https://eff.org

Description:

EFF has fought to clear the way for open source technologies in the courts and through public advocacy. We continue developing our own open source technologies including Privacy Badger, a browser extension that stops third-party tracking, and Certbot, which is a software tool for automatically deploying Let's Encrypt certificates to enable HTTPS on your website. Additionally, EFF recently achieved a victory for free expression rights with Bruce Perens, a founder of the Open Source movement, after a company sued Perens for a blog post denouncing restraints that they placed on customers of its security patch software for Linux.

POC: Christian Romero
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Hopeworks Camden

Website: http://www.hopeworks.org

Description:

With a focus on education, technology, and entrepreneurship, Hopeworks provides a positive, healing atmosphere that propels young people to build strong futures and break the cycle of violence and poverty in Camden, New Jersey.

We connect youth to life-changing opportunities where their growing technology skills go to work for enterprising businesses within our community. The real-world, on-the-job experience they gain raises their potential and benefits our partners.

POC: Dan Rhoton
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Linode

Data Umbrella

Website: https://www.dataumbrella.org/

Description:

We organize events for the data science community focusing on open source tools. We also host open source sprints so folks can get hands-on experience on how to contribute. Python is one of our favorite open source languages.

POC: Reshama Shaikh
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Made in Durham

Website: http://madeindurham.org

Description:

Made in Durham is a community partnership of engaged educators, business, government, nonprofits, youth and young adults aligning their resources and initiatives to create an education to career system that better equips Durham’s youth for career and life success and builds a stronger local workforce. We focus on systems that serve Durham youth aged 14 to 24 years old. With a macro view of the Durham talent development pipeline, MID is uniquely positioned to provide real time interventions to Durham programs and partner collaboratives to keep the youth they serve on track.
A significant priority for Made in Durham focuses on ensuring Durham youth have appropriate work-base learning opportunities to prepare them for jobs and connect their education activities to a more meaningful career. To assist the many partner institutions that provide these opportunities, Made in Durham is working with Fidelity Investment's Innovation team to help create an open platform for youth to share their participation activities across multiple organizations. Once developed the platform will allow youth to enter work-based learning experiences that will become part of their education to career history regardless of what organization offered the experience. This significantly levels the playing field for youth of color and low economic background, providing access and experiences that might not have had.

POC: Casey Steinbacher
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Fidelity Investments

StepUp Durham

Website: https://www.stepupdurham.org

Description:

StepUp Durham is helping to prepare and create a diverse pipeline for the technology community. We have helped one of our graduates secure employment in an IT position, partnered with companies to expose those we serve to careers in IT and worked with IT companies on various projects like data dives.

POC: Syretta Hill
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Fidelity Investments

Open Jam

Website: https://openjam.io

Description:

Open Jam is an annual, weekend-long game jam where participants create games using open source development tools. Open Jam's goals are to promote open source gaming, encourage the development of open source tools, and to provide a fun, community-oriented environment for participants to hone their development skills as game. Participants are given a theme at the beginning of the weekend, and are provided with a community-oriented opportunity to develop and show off their new open source game, as well as the chance to play and rate the games of hundreds of other developers. Open Jam supports and encourages the use of freely available game engines, authoring tools, platforms, and Creative Commons assets. With a new game theme every year and an action-packed weekend of development and feedback to look forward to, we encourage all members of the open source community to participate!

POC: Jared Sprague
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Red Hat

Open Source Design

Website: https://opensourcedesign.net

Description:

We are a community of designers and developers pushing more open design processes and improving the user experience and interface design of open source software.

We write articles, run a job board, put on events, provide resources, and present talks targeted at developers and designers interested in working and designing in Open Source.

POC: Jan C. Borchardt
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Google

Code for America

Website: https://codeforamerica.org

Description:

Code for America believes that government can work for the people, by the people, in the digital age. Since 2011, we’ve worked with thousands of tech and design industry professionals to help hundreds of state and local governments serve their communities better. Now we're working with government to make the most of our tax dollars to help millions, starting with those who need it most.

We help governments work in the open, proactively publish public data online, and collaborate with the community to help make programs and services better for everyone. Across the country, over 90 Code for America Brigades put technology to work in service of local cities, regions, and states. Find one near you at https://brigade.codeforamerica.org/

POC: Tom Dooner
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: New Relic

David Clark Cause

Website: https://www.davidclarkcause.com/

Description:

For 25 years, David Clark Cause founder David Clark has successfully engaged world leaders, dignitaries, celebrities, governments, corporations, charities and the public at large to create innovative and sustainable Cause Brands that educate, empower and inspire people to action. In 2018, David Clark created the Call for Code Global Initiative to inspire the 24 million developers around the world to come together to use their skills and mastery of the latest technologies to help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. With the support of Founding Partner IBM, United Nations Human Rights, David Clark Cause, and the entire ecosystem that supports it, Call for Code has grown into the largest engagement of developers in history, with over 1 million code submissions from over 179 counties, which has resulted in the creation of over 15,000 innovations to date.

POC: Trish Golden
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: IBM

Opensource.com

Website: http://www.opensource.com

Description:

Opensource.com is a premier, daily publication focused on open source and Linux tutorials, stories, and resources.

We're a diverse and inviting group, made up of staff editors, Correspondents, contributors, and readers. We value differences in skills, talents, backgrounds, and experiences. There are a few different ways to get involved as a reader or a writer.

POC: Jen Wike Huger
Contact email: [email protected]

FRC 5190: Green Hope Falcons

Website: https://www.ghrobotics.org/

Description:

Since its founding, the FRC 5190 Green Hope Falcons Robotics Team has made countless contributions to the open-source community. As a team, FRC 5190 has contributed hundreds of thousands of lines of valuable code not only to the Robotics and STEM communities but also to the public. Focused on spreading knowledge and resources to others, the team has hosted several workshops on various topics such as programs on Rapid Prototyping, JavaScript, and Zero to Trajectory Tracking - how to track the location of a robot using Advanced Mathematics while ensuring that it maintains its directed course. Among its contributions, the team has also released and created essential tools and assets such as CAD Models & Onshape Featurescripts for public usage. Over the next few years, the team hopes to continue contributing to the FIRST Robotics community and the open-source community through the release of more resources.

POC: Abhiram Ghanta
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: IBM

TechGirlz

Website: https://www.techgirlz.org/

Description:

TechGirlz is a non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire middle school girls to explore all the possibilities in technology. They accomplish this mission through free, hands-on, project-based workshops called TechShopz. With over 50 TechShopz and TechCampz topics, TechGirlz shows girls that working in tech is coding, but also so much more. TechGirlz provides the curriculum, a playbook on how to run a workshop, and marketing and registration support, for free, to any volunteers, anywhere, who want to impact their community by leading a group of girls in a fun, interactive workshop. TechGirlz has already inspired over 25,000 girls, and over 80% of them have positively changed their minds about careers in tech. You can help inspire the next 25,000+ and change the girls’ perception of careers in tech.

POC: Alicia Park
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Optum

Minority Game Changers

Website: https://minoritygamechangers.org/

Description:

Founded in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Minority Game Changers organization connects high school students from underrepresented communities with diverse leaders across various industry and academia principles. MGC designs interactive and immersive sessions to expose students to a variety of career fields and to inspire possibilities for their futures. Open source software benefits from diversity in thought, and MGC envisions a world where open source thrives with an active community of diverse participants.

POC: Timothy Thomason
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Optum

ChickTech Raleigh Durham

Website: https://raleigh-durham.chicktech.org/

Description:

ChickTech Raleigh Durham is a non-profit organization, founded in 2017, that has been leading an effort locally to encourage more women to enter high-tech fields. We provide hands-on workshops like Robotics, Angular, Smartphone Application, E-Wearables, Raspberry Pi, Machine Learning, AI, Video Production, 3D Printing, and many more. Our program is absolutely free to high school students nominated by their teacher or community advocate in Wake and Durham County Schools. ChickTech uses free open-source software to lower the barrier for girls to continue their projects at home.

We also host career events for men and women of all ages. The events range from networking, tech talks, to hands-on workshops consisting of open-source softwares and topics.

POC: Rima Chakravarty
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Fast Forward

Website: https://www.ffwd.org/

Description:

Fast Forward is the accelerator for nonprofit tech startups. Through funding, resources, and community, Fast Forward supports organizations leveraging open source technologies to address some of our world’s most pressing social problems - because we believe in open solutions.

POC: Maddy Chung
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: New Relic

Prevent Child Abuse NC

Website: https://www.preventchildabusenc.org/

Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina (PCANC) envisions a world where all children grow up in safe, stable, and nurturing families and communities. For more than 40 years, we have worked to prioritize prevention and ensure that all communities in North Carolina have the knowledge, skills, and resources to prevent child abuse and neglect at the local level - because childhood lasts a lifetime.

With COVID-19, families with children need support more than ever. We know that times of crisis, such as illness and unemployment, put families under great stress and can lead to increases in both domestic violence and child maltreatment cases. That's why PCANC remains committed to raising awareness of prevention strategies, advocating for policies that support families, and giving communities the tools they need to keep kids safe. Together we can Prevent Child Abuse, North Carolina!

POC: Claire Veasey
Contact email: [email protected]

Nominating Sponsor: Fidelity Investments