Orgs and Projects
Below is a list of the 149 organizations that will be represented at this year's Mentor Summit. We took the short descriptions you all contributed and listed them below - you can read through the descriptions to see who might be working on "stuff" that you find interesting.
52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH
Applied Research in Geoinformatics; Geospatial Open Source Software
Aerospaceresearch.net
Small Satellite Student Society University of Stuttgart for Space Projects
Amahi
A media server making home networking easy
AOSSIE - Australian Open Source Software Innovation and Education
A not-for-profit umbrella organization for open-source projects developed in Australia
Apertium
Language-independent rule-based machine translation platform
Apertus Association
Community Driven Open Technology for Professional Film Production
Appleseedhq
Physically-based production rendering for animation and visual effects
ArduPilot
Advanced, full-featured and reliable open source autopilot software
BeeWare
Create tools and libraries to Python all the things
Blender Foundation
We make free/open source 3D creation available for everyone
Boost
Free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries
Boston University / XIA
Supports evolution of all components of its network stack and promotes interoperability
BRL-CAD
3D solid modeling, robust geometric representation and fast ray tracing
Cadasta Foundation
Build technology to document land and resource rights
Catrobat
Create visual mobile coding frameworks for teenagers
cBioPortal
Cancer Genomics Analysis and Interpretation
CCExtractor Development
Extracts subtitles from various video formats
Ceph
Open source distributed storage
CERN-HSF
Facilitates coordination and common efforts in high energy physics software and computing
CGAL Project
A C++ library of 2D/3D geometric data structures and algorithms
Chapel
Productive scalable parallel programming language
Checkstyle
Validate Java code that adheres to a coding standard
Classical Language Toolkit
We bring NLP to ancient languages
CLiPS, University of Antwerp
Research on Natural Language Processing and Computational Psycholinguistics
CloudCV
Building platforms for reproducible AI research
CMU SPHINX
Speech recognition, deep learning, pronunciation evaluation
Coala
Linting and fixing code for all languages
Computational Biology @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Biology - related computational simulations and research
Conversations.im
Tools and services for federated instant messaging based on XMPP
Copyleft Games
3D Cloud Game Engine
DBpedia
Providing public infrastructure for a large, multilingual, semantic knowledge graph
Drupal
A web framework for content management
Elm Software Foundation
Support the Elm programming language. Functional programming in browsers
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
Protect and monitor vulnerable environmental data
Fedora Project
Building open source software communities and produce a Linux distribution
FFmpeg
Multimedia library
FOSSASIA
Building open source tools and fostering the community in Asia
Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation
Support and promote open source hardware projects
FreeBSD
A free unix-like operating system.
Freifunk
We support building free and open wireless community networks
GENIVI
Open Source automotive middleware
Git
Version Control System
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
Developing open standards and tools for genomics
GNSS-SDR
Global Navigation Satellite Systems software-defined receiver
GNU Octave
A programming language for scientific computing
GNU Radio
A free and open-source toolkit for Software Radio
Organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful
Green Navigation
Energy efficient routing for electric vehicles
Haiku
A unified operating system for the desktop
Homebrew
Homebrew is the missing package manager for macOS
INCF
Develops neuroinformatics data and computing resources infrastructure
Inkscape
Vector graphics editor
Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen
Research in applying AI in mobile robotics
Intel Media and Audio For Linux
Developing Open Source Software for accelerated media processing
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library
JBoss Community
Open organisation for enterprise-level server middlewares
JdeRobot - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Software development suite for robotics and computer vision applications
Jitsi
Video conferencing and VoIP
Joomla
Joomla! is a CMS to build web sites and powerful online applications
KDE
KDE is a community devoted to the development of free software and open knowledge
Kodi
Awesome badass media center stuff
LabLua
LabLua is dedicated to research on programming languages
LibreHealth
Building open source health systems
LibreOffice
The world's best free and open office suite
Libvirt
Stable virtualization API
Liquid Galaxy project
Liquid Galaxy is an immersive and interactive visualization tool for Google Earth and Maps
LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
Building modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies
LowRISC
Open, secure, flexible, Linux-capable System-on-Chip
Luarocks
Package manager for Lua programming language
MBDyn
Scientific software for mechatronic systems (University lab)
MetaBrainz Foundation
Creating and maintaining an open encyclopedia of music and arts metadata
Mifos Initiative
Open Source Fintech Platform for Financial Inclusion
Mixxx DJ Software
Cross-plattform DJ performance application
mlpack
Fast implementations of machine learning techniques
Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT)
Portable data structures and algorithms for mobile robotics
Mono Project
Cross platform .NET/C# runtime and tools
MovingBlocks
Indie game with voxel engine and sandbox
MuseScore
Music Notation Software
National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB)
Biomedical data analysis and visualization using networks
NetBSD Foundation
Open Source NetBSD operating system and Pkgsrc packaging product
Nmap Security Scanner
Utility for network discovery and security auditing
NumFOCUS
Supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific software
Open Bioinformatics Foundation
Bioinformatics across many open source projects and languages
Open Chemistry
Developing open source software for computational chemistry and mass spectrometry
Open Data Kit
Data collection software for social good
Open Detection
Open source library for object detection and classification
Open Genome Informatics
Open source biological data analysis and integration platform
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
Non-profit organisation that fosters the development and use of open source geospatial software
Open Technologies Alliance - GFOSS
Promote openness through use and development of Open Standards and Technologies
OpenAstronomy
Collaboration between opensource astrophysics projects to share resources, ideas, and code
OpenMRS
Develops an open source EMR platform
OpenSUSE
Building Linux distributions and tools for software integration, packaging and community colaboration
OpenWISP
We are creating a software platform, based on netjson, to manage different network devices
Oppia Foundation
Improving education through online lessons that simulate an interactive tutor
PEcAn Project
Enabling ecology through accessible, reproducible interfaces to vegetation models
Performance Co-Pilot
Performance Co-Pilot is a system performance and analysis framework
Pharo Consortium
Pharo is a minimal, elegant, pure, reflective object language
phpBB Forum Software
The most widely used free and open source forum software
Plone
Build and maintain the ultimate Python Open Source CMS
Polly Labs
Promote the adoption of polyhedral compilation techniques in industry
Portland State University
New and independent open source projects, many with academic focus
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system
Processing Foundation
Promoting software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields
Public Lab
Community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns
Python Software Foundation
Umbrella organization for the Python language
Qubes OS
Operating system providing security through isolation and compartmentalization of activities
R Project for Statistical Computing
R (along with Python) is the predominant language for data science
Red Hen Lab
Research on Multimodal Communication
Rocket.Chat
Open source chat platform
RTEMS Project
Real-time embedded operating system
Ruby Science Foundation
Developing and enchancing scientific libraries set for Ruby
Samba
Windows file sharing and authentication interoperability suite for Linux
Scala
Open source OO+FP programming language
Scilab
Scientific software package for numerical computations
ScummVM
Relive old adventure games
Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox
Learning toolbox offering a wide range of efficient and unified Machine Learning methods
Sigmah
Java/GWT platform for humanitarian project management
Software Freedom Conservancy
Fiscal sponsorship, home of Outreachy, defend GPL, promote FOSS
Software Product Data Exchange (SPDX)
Provide standards and tools to describe open source packages and licenses
Ste||ar group
Shaping a Scalable Future
strace
Linux system call tracer
Sugar Labs
Tools that learners use to explore, discover, create, and reflect
Sustainable computing research (SCoRe)
Conducting research covering various aspects of Security, Mobile & IOT
SymPy
Computer algebra system in Python
Systers, an Anita Borg Institute community
Supports and provides women in computing a community and technical opportunities
The CGAL Project
Computation geometry and geometry processing library
Gentoo Foundation
The Foundation ensures the healthy development of the Gentoo Linux distribution
The Honeynet Project
International non-profit security research organization
The Java Pathfinder Team
Java Pathfinder is an extensible virtual machine for analyzing Java bytecode
The Libreswan Project
Encrypting the internet using IKE and IPsec
The Linux Foundation
We make every thing to make Linux more beautiful
The MacPorts Project
Open source packaging for macOS
The ns-3 Network Simulator Project
Develops a packet level network simulator for research and education
Oppia Foundation
Improving education through online lessons that simulate an interactive tutor
PEcAn Project
Develop accessible tools for reproducible ecosystem modeling and forecasting
The Processing Foundation
Flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning to code within the context of the visual arts
Tor Project
Creating and deploying free and open anonymity and privacy technologies
The Wine Project
Wine can run Windows applications on other operating systems
Tiled
Free, easy to use and flexible tile map editor
VideoLAN
Open source multimedia player/framework
Wikimedia Foundation
Develop tools in which people can share knowledge for free
WorldBrain.io - Verifying the Internet
Battling misinformation with a decentralised platform for collaborative web-research
WSO2, Apache Software Foundation
Platform of open source middleware products for integration, API management, identity and access management, smart analytics and IoT
wxWidgets
Library for writing cross-platform GUI applications with *native* look and feel
Xapian
A highly adaptable toolkit which offers advanced indexing and search facilities
XBMC Foundation
End user facing media center deluxe. Totally customizable and open source
XMPP Standards Foundation
Defines protocols for presence, IM, and real-time communication/collaboration
XWiki
A platform to develop collaborative applications by leveraging Wiki paradigm
Zenodo
Open access digital archive
Zulip
Open source group chat