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

Google

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