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Projects sponsored by Canonical

Canonical Ltd continues to back and has created several projects. Principally these are Free Software/Open Source software or tools designed to improve collaboration between Free Software developers and contributors. This article is about free software as used in the sociopolitical free software movement; for non-free software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...

Open source software

• The Ubuntu family of GNU/Linux distributions:
  • Ubuntu^[4], a Debian-based Linux distribution with a GNOME desktop.
  • Kubuntu^[5], the KDE desktop on top of the Ubuntu core system.
  • Xubuntu, the Xfce desktop on top of the Ubuntu core system.
  • Edubuntu^[6], the Ubuntu core improved specifically for educational or thin-client environments.
  • Gobuntu, a stripped variant of Ubuntu consisting entirely of free software.
• Bazaar^[7], a decentralized revision control system.
• OpenCD, a collection of high quality free and open-source software compiled for users of Microsoft Windows. The programs come with an easy-to-use graphical installer and run under Microsoft Windows and cover most tasks. Examples are the GIMP, OpenOffice.org and PDF creation software.
• Storm, an object-relational mapper for Python [1], part of the Launchpad codebase

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Promotion activities

• Software Freedom Day
• Go Open Source, a South African campaign to create awareness of, educate about, and provide access to open-source software. It is important, once awareness of OSS has been created, that interested parties have the ability to gain access to the software and services, and that they have access to additional resources for support and training. It ran from May 2004 to May 2006.
• Geek Freedom League, The Freedom League is a South African project designed to bring together the best of the open source world and the massive country-wide community of people driven to introduce as many new people as possible to the use of open source software. Anyone with the passion and ability can sign-up and receive all the materials needed to convert as many people and computers as possible. People will be able to log their installs and track their progress.^[8]
• Freedom Toaster, kiosk-style machines located in South Africa designed to avoid costly and prohibitive download costs. Users provide their own blank CD media and after insertion they can choose a GNU/Linux distribution of their choice to take home.

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Proprietary projects

• Landscape^[9], a tool for managing large numbers of Ubuntu-based systems via a web-browser.
• Launchpad^[10] a centralised website containing several component web applications designed to make collaboration between Free Software projects easier:
  • Rosetta, an online language translation tool to help localisation of software (cf. the Rosetta Stone).
  • Malone (as in "Bugsy Malone"), a collaborative bug-tracker that allows linking to other bug-trackers.
  • Soyuz, a tool for creating custom-distributions, such as Kubuntu and Xubuntu.
  • Hosting of Bazaar branches

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Employees

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Notable current employees of Canonical include

• Mark Shuttleworth, founder and self-styled "SABDFL" of the Ubuntu project, former Debian maintainer of Apache and founder of Thawte Consulting (2004–).
• Matt Zimmerman, formerly of the Debian security team. Now Canonical/Ubuntu Chief Technical Officer (2004–).
• Scott James Remnant, formerly a Debian and GNU maintainer of GNU Libtool and co-author of the Planet aggregator. At Canonical, he has developed Upstart (2004–).
• Jono Bacon, of LugRadio fame. Canonical's new Ubuntu community leader. (2006–)
• Ian Jackson, developer of dpkg and former Debian Project Leader (2005–).
• Ben Collins, former Debian Project Leader and kernel developer. (2006–).
• Lars Wirzenius, first contributor to the Linux kernel and Linus Torvalds' former office mate. (2007–)

Notable past employees

• Jeff Waugh, employee no. 3 of GNOME and Planet-fame, Business Development (2004–2006).
• Benjamin Mako Hill, Core developer and Community Coordinator (2004–2005).

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Offices

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References

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External links

• Canonical.com, official site
• Ubuntu.com, Ubuntu home page