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Gandi supports alternative projects

“Gandi is, and wants to remain, a credible alternative for those that want to have a presence on the web. Our customers support us in this mission and in turn we support companies that, whether internet-based or not, have embarked on this adventure despite the presence of well-established monopolies.”


We provide this space on our website for all the interesting projects that have been presented to us that we have decided to support in one way or another.

1st-tier projects

Today, Gandi supports the following projects, either financially, technically, administratively, or morally, which deserve to be in the spotlight:
FluxBB

FluxBB

FluxBB is a fast and light discussion board written in PHP. It is delivered under the GNU GPL License.
Its main objectives are: being faster, lighter, graphically less intense compared to other boards applications. Thus FluxBB has less functionalities than many other discussion boards, but it is generally much faster and generates lighter pages. Moreover, the code generated by FluxBB is conform to the W3C's Strict XHTML 1.0 and CSS2 norms.
Learn more about fluxBB

Creative Commons

Gnome

GNOME is the acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, a free, user-friendly desktop environment, which goal is to make the use of GNU operating system accessible to most people: this user interface is very popular on GNU/Linux systems.
The GNOME Foundation regroups several hundreds of volunteer developers, provides the logistics as well as the financial and legal backup for the GNOME project, and helps to determine its vision and its development plan.
Learn more about GNOME

Creative Commons

Creative Commons

Creative Commons develops, promotes and stewards infrastructure that makes sharing easy, legal and scalable in order to enable creativity and innovation. In CC's ideal world, information and knowledge are available to every person, company, and institution around the globe to use, learn from, and build upon. Learn more about CC.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a organization that helps protect individual freedom on the web. Founded in 1990, the EEF has won many battles in the general interest, notably in terms of privacy, freedom of expression, and copyright protection... Visit the EFF's website

Terre en mélées

Terres en Mêlées

Freeculture

Students for Free Culture

Students for Free Culture is an international, non-partisan, chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy through open source software, digital culture freedoms, and bottom-up innovation. These aren't just computer scientists; they're artists, economists, electrical engineers, law students, and philosophy majors. Learn more about Students for Free Culture

WWF

WWF

The WWF is the world's largest environmental protection advocacy organization. The WWF works on a global level to find concrete and sustainable solutions. The organization aims to involve all the various actors: local communities, businesses, governments, international organizations and NGOs.
More on the WWF l

VLC

VideoLAN

VideoLAN is a development community project of freeware in the multimedia and video over networks.
This project, started by French students just over a decade ago, has today become an international project that has gained recognition thanks to the creation of software such as the VLC multimedia player.
More on VideoLAN

FIDH

The FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights)

It represents a network of 155 organizations that defend human rights around the world. Since 1922 FIDH has been active in the combat against all forms of injustice, intolerance, racism, and discrimination. FIDH acts to protect victims of human rights abuses, the prevention of these abuses, and in the pursuit of their authors.
Gandi supports FIDH by helping consolidate its network on the internet, and to increase its visibility in order to better inform the public and to defend human rights.
More on this in the FIDH blog

Demotix

Demotix

Demotix is a citizen-journalism website and photo agency. It takes user-generated content (UGC) and photographs from freelance journalists and amateurs, and markets them to the mainstream media. It was founded with two principles at its heart - the freedom of speech and the freedom to know. Its objective is nothing if not ambitious - to rescue journalism and promote free expression by connecting independent journalists with the traditional media
Discover demotix.com

Spam Haus

SpamHaus

The Spamhaus Project is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to track the Internet's Spam Gangs, to provide dependable realtime anti-spam protection for Internet networks, to work with Law Enforcement Agencies to identify and pursue spammers worldwide, and to lobby governments for effective anti-spam legislation.

Founded in 1998, Spamhaus is based in Geneva, Switzerland and London, UK and is run by a dedicated team of 25 investigators and forensics specialists located in 9 countries.

Spamhaus publishes the Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) - a database collating information and evidence on the '200' known worst spam gangs worldwide, used by ISPs to avoid signing up known spammers who would abuse their networks and by Law Enforcement Agencies to help target and mount prosecutions against professional spammers. Visit the website

Debian

Debian

The Debian project is an association of individuals that share the common goal of creating an open-source operating system that manages resource databases and allows launching applications. Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel.
More on Debian

Jamendo

Jamendo

By offering a simple and powerful interface, enabling the free and legal exchange of music, Jamendo is positioned as an alternative to the current economic model, totally outdated by the arrival of the internet. Based on Peer-to-peer technology and the Creative Commons licensing scheme, it includes absolutely excellent artists.
More on Jamendo

Dotclear

Dotclear

Kudos for a team, and a high-quality free project in the French language. Dotclear enables you to publish your blog on the internet in just few clicks, whether you are a beginner or an expert, an individual or a business.
More about DotClear

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Search criteria

Among the many factors of a project that determine whether or not we get involved, three will be mentioned here:

  • Concrete. You already exist and your project is sustainable or will truly have the potential to be so in the short term. More generally, you have built a well-known, high-quality project, but need some assistance.

  • Open. We want to support projects that affect as many people as possible, or allow a community to expand their horizons.

  • Alternative. You fight against a dominant "mass" commercial supply, that floods the market and does not leave any room for creation, and freedom of choice. You see, you might find this funny but this type of situation really makes us mad…

If you think that your project fits this description, we would be happy to hear from you. Just send us an e-mail at: alternatif@gandi.net . We will do our best (depending on the number of letters) to answer your proposals.

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