vehicle for a wide range of projects from multimedia applications,

educational platforms to commercial web application development.</p>

<h2><a href="http://sugarlabs.org">Sugar Labs</a></h2>

<p>Sugar is a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for

education.  Sugar's focus on sharing, criticism, and exploration is

grounded in the culture of free software.  Sugar Labs' mission is to

produce, distribute and support the use of the Sugar learning platform.

Sugar Labs supports the community of educators and software developers who

want to extend the platform.  Sugar is a community project: under the

Sugar Labs umbrella hundreds of software developers and thousands of

<h2><a href="http://surveyos.sourceforge.net/">SurveyOS</a></h2>

<p>The Survey Open Source (SurveyOS) Project is a non-profit project of

the Software Freedom Conservancy dedicated to fostering cooperation

between land surveyors and GIS professionals through the development of

open source software and open technology standards. The SurveyOS Project

currently devotes programming efforts and source code to the open source

desktop GIS program known as OpenJUMP. It also dedicates a set of AutoLISP

source code via the GPL that can be used to add surveying and geospatial

functionality to other software.</p>