som-research / ossfoundations

Results of our analysis on Open Source Foundations

OSSFoundations

Results of our analysis on Open Source Foundations.

This project hosts a website that helps you to list, filter and query the list of Open Source software foundations studied in our paper titled The Role of Foundations in Open Source Projects, published at the Software Engineering in Society track of the International Conference on Software Engineering in 2018 and then extended in A Survey of Software Foundations in Open Source.

🛠️ Under development

This repo and the website are under development. We would like to make such updates more accesible and also provide a Web API to manage the list.

We would also invite you to report any fix or request via the tradicional GitHub issue mechanism.

👪 Contributing. Help needed!

We would like to keep this list as much updated as possible so feel free to propose new foundations to be added (or propose corrections to the current ones).

Currently, we do not have specific workforce to develop this project so we do it in our free time. We would appreciate any help you can provide.

If you are interested in contributing to this project, please read the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

⚖️ License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

The CC BY license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

ossfoundations's Issues

Dojo Foundation merged, now JS Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJS_Foundation

In 2016, the Dojo Foundation merged with jQuery Foundation and subsequently rebranded itself as JS Foundation and became a Linux Foundation project

OpenStack Foundation renamed

It's now the Open Infrastructure Foundation.

Add timestamp when adding new foundations

New foundations should include the timestamp when they were proposed

Returning to main page after adding an issue

Right now, when adding a new foundation, the form does not return to main page, and it should

Access via direct URL to Admin view or Add Foundation

The access to Admin/Add views does not seem to work if accessed directly

Request to add Open Compute Project into the database

Pending to revise and approve/reject the request

Data collected from form:

{
  "SD" : "Y",
  "id" : "6630890f73",
  "legal" : "United States 501(c)(6)",
  "name" : "Open Compute Project",
  "rq1Indep" : "Y",
  "rq1Inter" : "Y",
  "rq1Open" : "Y",
  "rq3rq4" : "",
  "status" : "pending",
  "topics" : "Event-organization,Community-coordination,Project-sponsoring,Software-Development,OSS-promotion,Standard-leaders",
  "url" : "https://www.opencompute.org/"
}

Sync web and repo data files

Repository data files are currently not synchronized with website data

Typo OSET Institute's

s/OSET Institute's/OSET Institute/

Subversion Corporation is gone

Subversion Corporation dissolved as an independent entity when it joined the Apache Software Foundation. As best I understand your criteria - current legal organizations dealing with FOSS software - this entry should be deleted from your dataset.

Form to login does not show up

The "Sign in with Google" button does not show the login form

Better way to mark defunct organizations

Currently you mark some orgs as "DISSOLVED" in the legal field but maybe that should be a separate field.

You can also add:

• Mambo Foundation
• LogiLogi Foundation
• Open Health Tools
• Open Media Now! Foundation

global scope of KDE e.V.

KDE e.V. is marked as not having global scope. We do however support contributors from all over the world and our software is used all around the world.

Open Source Collective link is broken

I guess since the scheme is excluded it is resolved locally:

Making https://som-research.github.io/OSSFoundations/oscollective.org which fails.

Request to add Test admin view into the database

Pending to revise and approve/reject the request

Request to add Openatom into the database

Pending to revise and approve/reject the request

Name: Openatom
URL: www.openatom.org
International: 
Independent: 
Open: 
SD: Y
Legal: 
Topics: Community-coordination,Software-Development,Government-involvement
Creation date: 27/5/2021-13:12

Request to add Center for the Cultivation of Technology into the database

Pending to revise and approve/reject the request

Name: Center for the Cultivation of Technology
URL: https://www.techcultivation.org/
International: Y
Independent: Y
Open: Y
SD: Y
Legal: German non-profit company
Topics: Event-organization,Training,Legal-support,Community-coordination,Project-sponsoring,Software-Development
Creation date: 17/6/2021-23:17

2 more organizations

https://ethereum.foundation/
https://www.oasis-open.org/

F# Software Foundation is correct name

You have "F# Foundation" but it's "F# Software Foundation", see https://foundation.fsharp.org/public_records

Remove dead org URLs that redirect to gambling sites

I would recommend removing or somehow very clearly marking URLs of apparently-dead organizations that now redirect to gambling sites. While this is not necessarily an indication the organization is dissolved, it's a good clue. More to the point, we probably don't want to send anyone to gambling sites unexpectedly!

http://www.openmedianow.org/ currently redirects to emccan-dot-org
http://www.csol.org/ contents are now an online casino guide at same address

Data regarding the contact of a Foundation is lost

It seems that contact information is not shown in the admin view