Vendors, Consultants and Organizations that Support FOSS
List of Consultants, Vendors and Organizations
This is a list of organizations, consultants and vendors that responded to a query sent on numerous nonprofit technology related lists in September of 2007. It is not exhaustive, nor is it an endorsement. It is meant as a helpful resource for those looking for support for FOSS.
We hope that there will be, at some point in the near future, a database with this information. In the meanwhile, if you have additions or corrections, please email NOSI.
The following icons are used to indicate:
If they provide support and/or services for desktops.
If they provide installation and support for FOSS servers or providehosting services.
If they develop, install, or support web applications.
Asia (Pakistan)
Fouad Riaz Bajwa
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Contact email: fouadbajwa@gmail.com bajwa@lpi.org
URL: www.lpipakistan.org
Locations served: South Asia, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, Europe, and Australia
Services : development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support, training
FOSS Specialties:
FOSS service business development and marketing solutions, policy design, specialized strategic technology management services, community development
Provide the skills, tools, expertise and experience to:
- Facilitate growth of your organization by simplifying & getting more from the IT environment
- Strategic Technology Management reducing costs, and
- Low-Cost Hardware Solutions for developing regions
Comments :We are available for assignment based relocation when and where required on pre-arranged basis. We have considerable global travel and consulting experience including working with and supporting organizations with over 20,000 employees and global operations.
Europe (Belgium)
BeezNest
Location: Brussels, Belgium
contact email: info@beeznest.net
URL: www.beeznest.net
Locations served: all over Europe (mainly Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Germany)
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support, training
FOSS specialties: Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Samba, Dolibarr, Dokeos, Asterisk
Comments: BeezNest specializes in FOSS since early 2001 and people in it have been contributing to many projects back since 1999.
Europe (United Kingdom)
M6-IT Community Interest Company
Location: City, State/Province, Country: West Midlands, United Kingdom.
Contact email: enquiry@m6-it.org
URL: http://m6-it.org/
Locations served: UK (especially Midlands, Wales, and NW England)
NW Europe
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support, training.
Other: IT strategy; project management; (training &) certification; on-line back-ups; finanace software.
FOSS specialties: CMS (Plone & Zope); TinyERP; Debian / Apache / Exim / subversion servers;
Comments: M6-IT is a Community Interest Company. Our social enterprise is devoted to providing sustainable IT to the third sector (Civil Society / NGO / NPOs), and education projects, using Free & Open Source Software. We are particularly concerned with IT strategy, and providing extensive training (and certification), to boost IT efficiency in the sector.
Resource Information Service (RIS)
Location: London, UK
tim.bailey@ris.org.uk
ris.org.uk
Locations served: All of UK
Services : development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support and training
FOSS specialties: Drupal, Wordpress, CiviCRM, most FOSS bulletin board packages, SugarCRM, vTiger
Comments: Resource Information Service is a specialist information charity. We are the leading provider in the UK of directories, websites and information systems about services for people in need. We also provide general advice and consultancy on all aspects web based technologies. Contact Tim Bailey at RIS for an informal chat.
New Zealand
Rimu Hosting
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Cambridge, New Zealand
contact email: support@rimuhosting.com
URL: http://rimuhosting.com
Locations served: International
Services :installation and configuration, hosting, support
FOSS specialties: Our admins are experienced with most popular FOSS applications, including Java, LAMP, and Ruby on Rails based applications.
Comments : RImuhosting provide Xen based Virtual Private Servers and Linux dedicated server hosting plans. We employ a team of Linux system administrators who provide support for our customers in setting up and supporting the FOSS applications your interested in using.
North America (Canada)
Freeform Solutions
Location: Canada
Contact email: info@freeformsolutions.ca
URL: http://www.freeformsolutions.ca/
Locations served: Canada/USA
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting,
customization, integration, support, training, technology assessment and
planning, project management
FOSS specialties: XOOPS, Formulize, Drupal, PHP/MySQL, SugarCRM, Linux
server administration and desktop applications
Comments: Freeform Solutions is a not-for-profit organization dedicated
to helping other not-for-profit organizations understand and employ
technology appropriately and effectively to support their mission. Our
mission is to help give you peace of mind and stay focused on your
mission by providing flexible solutions including: consulting
(technology assessment, planning, and project management), website
development (public and private website development and maintenance,
particularly information management systems that enable effective
communication and collaboration); and, Internet hosting (your entire
Internet presence, from websites and e-mail to databases and custom
website applications). We use open source software to deliver solutions
with more appropriate features and at lower prices than proprietary
commercial solutions. Visit freeformsolutions.ca or email
info@freeformsolutions.ca for more information.
Fruition Interactive
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Toronto, ON Canada
contact email: kent@fruitoininteractive.com
URL: http://www.fruitioninteractive.com
Locations served: Canada, USA, Europe
Services: development, installation and configuration, customization, integration , support, training
FOSS specialties: eZPublish, Drupal, SugarCRM, MySQL, Linux, Apache, PHP,
Comments: Fruition Interactive provides services to help your organization communicate with greater impact, work more efficiently and create new opportunities using the Internet. We do that by using industry-leading methods to work with you to create exceptional online experiences and to deliver your projects better, faster and more on-target with your evolving needs.
Koumbit Networks, Inc. / Réseau Koumbit, Inc.
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Contact email: info@koumbit.org
URL: http://koumbit.org
Locations served: North-America
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization, support, training
Other: graphics design, both web and print.
FOSS specialties: Drupal (including multi-lingual sites, CiviCRM, e-commerce), MoinMoin wiki, RT (ticket tracker), Ledger-SMB (accountancy), AlternC GPL hosting panel (to easily manage FTP accounts, domain configuration, Mailman, MySQL databases).
Comments: Koumbit is a non profit organisation whose mission is to promote the appropriation of free/libre and open source software by social groups in Quebec, in Canada and abroad. We work on the development of a collective software platform and we provide support for users of free software. See also: http://koumbit.org/en/about/founding_principles
OpenConcept Consulting Inc.
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada contact email: mike@openconcept.ca
URL: http://openconcept.ca
Locations served: Canada/USA
Services: development , installation and configuration , hosting,
customization , integration, support, training
Other: We've got some services which are based on floss products that we release into the community.
FOSS specialties (what software projects): Drupal, CiviCRM, php/mysql, LAMP admin
Comments:At OpenConcept Consulting Inc. we stand for open source web development for social change. We strive to give our clients quality, dynamic, interactive web sites and high caliber online community tools at an affordable price. We ensure that our clients get the most from their online presence.
OpenConcept’s tool kit includes: Websites, Blogs, Petitions, Action Fora, Campaign Sites,Newsletters, Membership Portals & Management, and Web 2.0. But if there is no ready-made solution to your web needs, we can help you build one that is customized to your specifications with the support of an open source community that spans the globe.
Let us tailor your web based solution. Visit openconcept.ca or email info@openconcept.ca for more information.
Openflows Community Technology Lab
Location: City, State/Province, Country: based in New York City with nodes in Toronto and Montreal
contact email: eric@openflows.com
URL: http://openflows.com
Locations served: Our clients are scattered all over North America and Europe.
Services: development , installation and configuration , hosting ,
customization , integration , support , training
Other:Members of Openflows regularly run seminars or present at conferences. Topics covered include Introduction to Free/Open Source Software; mapping with F/OSS tools; Free Software and business models; Free Software for Librarians
FOSS specialties: Openflows has used a number of tools as part of projects for our clients, including but not limited to: Bricolage, SlashCode, Drupal, Asterisk, phpGroupware, mySQL and PostgreSQL
Comments: Operating since the year 2000, the Openflows Community Technology Lab (OCTL) is a professional network of developers, consultants and researchers committed to bringing cutting edge open source software solutions to NGOs and progressive community organisations. All our clients are unique, and so are our solutions. We believe that open source
software is not just technologically superior, but that free access to information and open collaboration is what the internet was meant to be used for.
We have taken our obligation to give back to the free software community seriously. This usually takes the form of bug reports and patches submitted directly to the maintainers of a given project, as well as coding or sponsorship of new features. All OCTL workers are members of either the U.S. Freelancers Union, Communications Workers of America Local 1180, or The Canadian Freelance Union (CEP Canada)
Starnix Inc.
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
contact email: matt@starnix.com
URL: http://www.starnix.com
Locations served: Toronto and GTA (physically), globally (remote and/or onsite)
Services: development, installation and configuration, customization, integration, support, training
Other: managed services
FOSS specialties (what software projects): any network infrastructure, development in Perl
North America (US)
Micah Anderson
Location: City, State/Province, Country: New York, NY, US
contact email: micah@riseup.net
URL: http://riseup.net
Locations served: Northeast
Services: installation and configuration, hosting, training
Other: systems administration/networking
FOSS specialties (what software projects): Debian, backupninja, virtualization
Comments : I'm a Debian developer, and a systems administrator, I started Riseup and built out the infrastructure for Indymedia, I'm skilled in architecting, designing, implementing and maintaining high capacity services, I also manage the network for the Seattle Community Colocation project and can travel!
Chicago Technology Cooperative
Chicago, IL, USA
team@chicagotech.org
www.chicagotech.org
Although we are based in Chicago, we serve clients all over North
America.
Services: development, install/config, customization, integration, support, training
FOSS specialties: Drupal, CiviCRM, open source GIS
Comments: The Chicago Technology Cooperative was founded in March 2005 to provide technology assistance to the nonprofit community of Chicago; we now help organizations located all over the United States. The Cooperative is comprised of talented consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, all with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations. Members of the Cooperative are committed to helping nonprofit organizations harness and leverage technology as a tool to better serve their constituencies and society as a whole. Specifically, members provide website and web-based, database-driven application development services.
The members of the Chicago Technology Cooperative are committed to the ideals and promise of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). As active participants in the nonprofit open source ecology, we sponsor and co-sponsor several popular Drupal modules, including Gmap, Web Links, and Node Adoption.
Confluence Corporation
Location: City, State/Province, Country:Washington, DC, USA
contact email: info@confluencecorp.com
URL: www.confluencecorp.com
Locations served: National (US)
Services: development, installation and configuration, customization, integration, support, training
FOSS specialties: Open Source Content Management Systems
Comments: Confluence implements websites with Joomla / open source content management
systems -- from design through continued maintenance and support.
Cruiskeen Consulting LLC
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Menomonie,WI USA
Contact email: sales@cruiskeenconsulting.com
URL: http://www.cruiskeenconsulting.com
Locations served: Anywhere,primarily the USA
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support, training
FOSS specialties: email applications, web applications, Drupal, CiviCRM, other web applications
Comments: Cruiskeen Consulting LLC provides support for web applications based on open source software. We specialize in the creation of dynamic web sites for nonprofits, political groups, and small businesses. We also provide web and email hosting, software development, mailing lists, and UNIX/Linux system administration services.
Expeditionary Information Systems
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Helena, MT, USA Contact email: bobschmitt@onewest.net URL: http://www.xinsys.net
Locations served: United States, Europe, Asia
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support,training
Other: Sytem/strategy design, development and prototyping
FOSS specialties: Information services to assist technically-oriented communities work together better, specifically: legal, humanitarian, disaster/emergency response. Typically working on LAMP platforms, integrating other platforms as needed, specializing in integrating Drupal with other platforms.
Comment: Clients include NGOs, government and commercial organizations in the United States and Europe. We focus on rapid conceptualization, prototyping and optimization of collaborative platforms.
gardner-madras | strategic creative – heather gardner-madras
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Springfield, OR, USA contact email: hgm@heathergm.com
URL: http://heathergm.com
Locations served: work virtually anywhere
Services : hosting, support
Other:Design & Strategy, Project Management and
Technology planning
FOSS specialties:Joomla, Drupal Plone
Comments: Web design specializes in designing a site
specifically to the strength of each CMS for smoother installation
and site maintenance.
Giant Rabbit, LLC
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Berkeley, California
contact email:info@giantrabbit.com
URL: http://www.giantrabbit.com
Locations served: San Francisco Bay Area (for on-site work) and worldwide (for remote work)
Services : development, installation and configuration, customization, integration, support
FOSS specialties: Drupal, Ruby on Rails
Comments: We provide comprehensive IT consulting services (including web and database design and strategic technology planning) to non-profit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationwide. We can help an organization determine if an open-source solution is correct for them, and we can guide the organization through every phase of the project, from selection through customization, deployment, and maintenance.
John Kenyon/John Kenyon Consulting
Location: City, State/Province, Country:San Francisco, CA, USA
contact email:kenyonsf@yahoo.com
URL:www.johnkenyon.org
Locations served: SF Bay Area in person, Worldwide virtually
Services: Training, FOSS Strategic Planning and Tool
Implementation, Process and Technology Consulting.
FOSS specialties: CiviCRM, Drupal, Nonprofit use of FOSS
Comments: John Kenyon has been working with FOSS for over 10 years, including ebase and CiviCRM. John wrote the online documentation for CiviCRM and has created and delivers the full-day training on CiviCRM. For over fifteen years John has been assisting nonprofits in using technology effectively. He brings this experience and knowledge to helping nonprofits choose and implement appropriate technologies.
Michelle Murrain (MetaCentric Technology Advising)
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Shelburne Falls, MA, US
contact email: michelle@metacentric.org
URL: http://www.metacentric.org
Locations served: Northeast US, Worldwide
Services:support, training
Other: strategic planning for open source software implementation, project management, technical writing
FOSS Specialties: For planning and support – all types of FOSS. For training: Linux (all distributions), OpenOffice.org, Joomla, Moodle, WordPress, Thunderbird, phpbb, MediaWiki
Comments: I bring my many years of experience in working with and within nonprofit and educational organizations and my deep expertise in a range of technologies to help your organization decide on, implement, migrate to, and sustain, free and open source software in your organization. I do this via planning, project management, training and writing, and evaluation.
I have more than 10 years of nonprofit and educational technology experience, and I am considered a leader in the nonprofit technology field. I have done training, evaluation and planning, and have spent a large part of those years doing development and technology implementations (primarily web and database applications.) I have many years of experience with a wide range of open source software, from operating systems such as Linux, to server-based databases, and desktop applications, such as Firefox and Open Office. I have put implementation aside, and as an independent advisor, I can help you understand what technology implementation entails, and empower you to make good technology choices.
NPower Seattle / Patrick Shaw
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Seattle, WA, United States
contact email:patricks@npowerseattle.org
URL: www.npowerseattle.org
Locations served: Seattle Area (currently). Might expand to broader area in the future
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support, training
FOSS specialties: Plone, and Salesforce, if you consider that in the broad spectrum of open!
Organization/Company/Individual name: ONE/Northwest
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Seattle, WA USA
contact email: info@onenw.org
URL: http://www.onenw.org
Locations served: ONE/Northwest serves nonprofit environmental organizations, mostly in the Pacific Northwest.
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support, training
FOSS specialties: Plone, Wordpress, Sympa
Phase2 Technology
Location: City, State/Province, Country:
contact email: Andre
Hood, Director of Business Development, sales@phase2technology.com
URL: www.phase2technology.com
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting,
customization, integration, support, training
FOSS specialties: Drupal, CiviCRM, Joomla, InfoGlue
Comments : We provide open source software consulting, customization, integration, and implementation for non-profits as well as custom web application development.
OFred Heutte,Sunlight Data Systems
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Portland, OR
contact email: phred@sunlightdata.com
Phone: 1.503.757-6222
Locations served: everywhere
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support, training
FOSS specialties (what software projects): MySQL, Perl, FreeBSD, Ruby, Rails
Comments: Use Perl and MySQL extensively for data projects (list enhancement, analysis, etc). Currently have membership lists for about 600 organizations under management with about 30 million members. Experienced (basic sysadmin level) with FreeBSD since 1997. Learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Can provide assistance with database design, deployment and tuning, data cleansing and analysis, etc. Extensive experience with all kinds of open source software (starting with InfoZip, the first truly global open source project, in 1989). Have attended open source conferences since 1997 (the O'Reilly OSCON is in my neighborhood in Portland every year :) . Know a considerable amount about open source licensing, software engineering, project management, etc., and comparative analysis for open source/proprietary deployment decisions.
Linefeed.org
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA / Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil / Buenos Aires, Argentina
contact email: info@linefeed.org
URL: http://www.linefeed.org/
Locations Served: We help non-profits located all over the world.
Services: Development, installation/configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support, training.
FOSS Specialties: Any and all open source and free software platforms.
Comments: Linefeed.org is an all-volunteer organization of software and networking professionals offering pro-bono work to selected non-profit groups. Our teams include people who speak English, Spanish and Portuguese. Non-profit groups are encouraged to submit projects to us to see if we can assemble a pro-bono team to work on it. We have been doing this kind of work since 2001.
May First/People Link
Location: City, State/Province, Country: New York, NY USA
contact email: info@mayfirst.org
URL: http://mayfirst.org
Locations served: International
Services : development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization
FOSS specialties (what software projects): Drupal, mailman, web apps
Comments: May First/People Link is a nonprofit, unionized membership organization of progressive activists. By pooling our resources we are strengthening the movement for a better world by building a solid hosting infrastructure for the left.
Organization/Company/Individual name: North-by-South
Location: San Francisco, California, USA and Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
contact email: sf@northxsouth.com
URL: http://www.northxsouth.com/ and http://news.northxsouth.com/
Locations served: We do work on-site in San Francisco and Sao Paulo and remotely develop projects all over the world.
Services: Development, installation/configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support, training.
FOSS Specialties:SugarCRM, Mediawiki, SF-Active, Trac, Linux, FreeBSD, many more.
Comments: North-by-South is an international network of sysadmins,
programmers and designers who provide free software services to
clients in North & South America. Our teams include people who speak English, Spanish and Portuguese. We provide special discounts to non-profits but NxS doesn't do pro-bono work (we all do that through linefeed.org).
Openflows Community Technology Lab
Location: City, State/Province, Country: based in New York City with nodes in Toronto and Montreal
contact email: eric@openflows.com
URL: http://openflows.com
Locations served: Our clients are scattered all over North America and Europe.
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support, training
Other: Members of Openflows regularly run seminars or present at conferences. Topics covered include Introduction to Free/Open Source Software; mapping with F/OSS tools; Free Software and business models; Free Software for Librarians
FOSS specialties: Openflows has used a number of tools as part of projects for our clients, including but not limited to: Bricolage, SlashCode, Drupal, Asterisk, phpGroupware, mySQL and PostgreSQL
Comments: Operating since the year 2000, the Openflows Community Technology Lab (OCTL) is a professional network of developers, consultants and researchers committed to bringing cutting edge open source software solutions to NGOs and progressive community organisations. All our clients are unique, and so are our solutions. We believe that open source software is not just technologically superior, but that free access to information and open collaboration is what the internet was meant to be used for.
We have taken our obligation to give back to the free software community seriously. This usually takes the form of bug reports and patches submitted directly to the maintainers of a given project, as well as coding or sponsorship of new features.
Comments: All OCTL workers are members of either the U.S. Freelancers Union, Communications Workers of America Local 1180, or The Canadian Freelance Union (CEP Canada)
pingVision, LLC
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Boulder, CO
contact email: inquiry@pingv.com
URL: http://pingv.com
Locations served: Worldwide
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support, training
FOSS specialties: Drupal, custom development, graphic design, user interface design, video, 3D
Comments: We're one of the leading Drupal development houses in the world.
rb Technologies
Rubin Bennett
80 Carleton Boulevard
East Montpelier, VT 05651
rbennett@thatitguy.com
http://thatitguy.com
Serving Central Vermont and the greater New England areas
Services : installation and configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support
FOSS specialties (what software projects):
GNU/ Linux and associated utilities, Samba, E-mail/ groupware services (Courier IMAP. Sendmail, Postfix, Scalix, SpamDigeste (spam quarantine/ management system), Zimbra, etc. etc.), Squirrelmail (webmail), PHP, Perl, Apache and web related technologies, Drupal (CMS), PHP/ Post Nuke (CMS), dotproject (project management), phpBB (discussion forum), Tripwire (IDS), Aide (IDS/ Intrusion prevention), Disaster recovery, Network management (Nagios/ OpenNMS)
Comments: rb Technologies has been installing and supporting networks with a primary focus on Free and Open Source software since 1997. We have a proven track record of providing resilient, thoughtfully designed, scalable networks and systems.
OSan Francisco Community Colocation Project
San Francisco, California, USA
colo@sfccp.net
http://www.sfccp.net/
Serves San Francisco Bay Area
Installation & configuration, hosting
Specializes in Linux & FreeBSD
SFCCP is a non-profit providing at-cost internet connectivity to
other non-profits, community groups and free software projects.
Solution Grove
Location: City, State/Province, Country: Winchester MA
contact email: caroline@solutiongrove.com
URL:www.solutiongrove.com
Locations served: Primarily US
Services: development, installation and configuration, hosting,
customization, integration, support, training<
FOSS specialties: OpenACS, .LRN
Comments: Knowledge Management for Learning Communities. Specializing in Education, Intranets, Extranets, project management, learning management and training.
South America (Brazil/Argentina)
Linefeed.org
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA / Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil / Buenos Aires, Argentina
contact email: info@linefeed.org
URL: http://www.linefeed.org/
Locations served: We help non-profits located all over the world.
Services: Development, installation/configuration, hosting, customization,
integration, support, training.
FOSS Specialties: Any and all open source and free software platforms.
Comments: Linefeed.org is an all-volunteer organization of software and networking professionals offering pro-bono work to selected non-profit groups. Our teams include people who speak English, Spanish and Portuguese. Non-profit groups are encouraged to submit projects to us to see if we can assemble a pro-bono team to work on it. We have been doing this kind of work since 2001.
North-by-South
Location: San Francisco, California, USA and Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
contact email: sf@northxsouth.com
URL: http://www.northxsouth.com/ and http://news.northxsouth.com/
Locations served: We do work on-site in San Francisco and Sao Paulo and remotely develop projects all over the world.
Services: Development, installation/configuration, hosting, customization, integration, support, training.
FOSS Specialties: SugarCRM, Mediawiki, SF-Active, Trac, Linux, FreeBSD, many more.
Comments: North-by-South is an international network of sysadmins,
programmers and designers who provide free software services to clients in North & South America. Our teams include people who speak English, Spanish and Portuguese. We provide special discounts to non-profits but NxS doesn't do pro-bono work (we all do that through linefeed.org).