Initiatives
Categories:
Standards
"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential."
"Strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities."
"The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standardsthat ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all."
"The Web Standards Group is for web designers & developers who are interested in web standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT etc.) and best practices (accessible sites using valid and semantically correct code)."
Open Source
"TheOpenCD project aims to introduce users of MS-Windows to the benefits of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)."
"Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software."
"The Free Magazine for the Free Software World."
"Ubuntu is a free, open source operating system that starts with the breadth of Debian and adds regular releases (every six months), a clear focus on the user and usability (it should "Just Work", TM) and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of support for every release."
"The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere."
"The Free Software Foundation (FSF), established in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs."
"Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works."
Online Freedom Rights
Electronic Frontier Foundation
"EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people - lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries working to protect your digital rights."
"The project invites recipients and senders of cease and desist notices to send them to a central point (here, at chillingeffects.org) for analysis, and to browse the website for background information and explanation of the laws they are charged with violating or enforcing."
Center For Democracy & Technology
"The Center for Democracy and Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age."
"The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three priorities: the Newseum, the First Amendment and newsroom diversity."
"The Home of Free Speech TV and the Free Speech Online Community."
"One of the world's leading repositories of original, challenging, controversial and intelligent writing on free expression issues."