https://github.com/Fonds-de-Dotation-du-Libre/awesome-free-software

Your "yellow pages" of Enterprise Free Software Publishers, their products and success cases
https://github.com/Fonds-de-Dotation-du-Libre/awesome-free-software

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Your "yellow pages" of Enterprise Free Software Publishers, their products and success cases

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Fonds-de-Dotation-du-Libre/awesome-free-software
• Owner: Fonds-de-Dotation-du-Libre
• Created: 2016-10-05T14:20:17.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-05-31T06:19:09.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-18T13:41:47.866Z (8 months ago)
• Homepage: http://www.afs.one
• Size: 531 KB
• Stars: 14
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 11
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
Why AFS.one?




We wanted to create a collaborative repository highlighting success cases of

Enterprise Free Software Publishers with a focus on those companies that actually

create it and a bias towards real Free software - software that users 

can actually modify, fix, improve or share.



The resulting repository can be accessed here: http://www.afs.one




Target Audience are Enterprises willing to implement Free Software with all the

warranties and long term commitment provided by a Commercial Software Publisher.





The idea of AFS

was not create yet another directory of Open Source/Free Software such as

freecode or another guide of supposed

Open Source Software, that uses the term "Open Source" as a marketing

argument to promote proprietory software that cannot be modified, fixed, improved

or shared.





Our ultimate goal is to ensure that Enterprises can take control of their IT

through Free Software and reduce their risks thanks to this model of publishing.



How to contribute?

Submit pull requests following the JSON scheme described below.


JSON Schema

All JSON text entries must use UTF-8 encoding.



Each publisher has a single JSON file with straightforward properties. Notable properties::





  


country: origin country of the publisher (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2)

  


presence: countries the publisher has a presense (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2)

  


source_code_download: link to an archive with all source code available under a Free Software license



  


source_code_profile: link to the openhub source code profile

  


    commercial_support: link to a page describing the type of commerical support provided for the respective Free Software

    (empty if commercial support is only available for another (version of the) software than the one that can be downloaded using source_code_download).  

  

  


wikipedia_url: link to the wikipedia page of the Free Software

  


language: the language of a success case (ISO 639-1)





The full JSON schema is here:





{

        "title": <<company title>>,

        "logo": <<url to company logo>>,

        "country": <<origin country of the publishe>>,

        "presence": <<countries the publisher has a presense, e.g. ["us", "gb"]>>,

        "website": <<url to company website>>,

        "founded_year": <<year company was founded>>,

        "kpi_dict": {

          "2018": {

            "staff": <<staff 2018>>,

            "earnings": <<earnings 2018>>,

            "total_assets": <<total assets 2018>>,

            "revenues": <<revenues 2018>>,

            "public_source": <<data from a publicly accessible source>>

          },

          "2017": {

            "staff": "",

            "earnings": "",

            "total_assets": "",

            "revenues": "",

            "public_source": ""

          },

          "2016": {

            "staff": "",

            "earnings": "",

            "total_assets": "",

            "revenues": "",

            "public_source": ""

          }

        },

        "free_software_list": [{

                "title": <<software title>>,

                "logo": <<url to software logo>>,

                "website": <<software website>>,

                "category_list": <<list of categories, e.g. ["Developer", "Communication"]>>,

                "source_code_download": <<link to an archive with all source code>>,

                "source_code_profile": <<link to openhub source code profile>>,

                "commercial_support": <<link to a resource/page describing the type of commerical support provided>>,

                "wikipedia_url": <<link to the wikipedia page of the Free Software>>,

                "success_case_list": [{

                        "title": <<title of success case>>,

                        "description": <<description of success case>>,

  						"image": <<url to screenshot of success case>>,

                        "industry": <<industry, this success case is from>>,

  						"customer": <<name of client/customer>>,

                        "country": <<country of origin of customer>>,

                        "language": <<language of success case>>,

                        "url": <<url to success case>>

                }, {

                        <<...next success case...>>

                }]

        }, {

          <<... next Free Software ...>>

        }]

}



Software Categories



Free Software is categorized using the following terms:





        
Communication (email, chat, videoconferencing, etc.)

        
Database (SQL, NoSQL, etc.)

        
Application (ERP, CRM, e-commerce, project management, etc.)

        
Analytics (big data, machine learning, data visualisation, etc.)

        
Developer (text editor, IDE, frameworks)

        
Gis (map editor, map visualisation)

        
Desktop (desktop operating system, desktop web browser, desktop VM, etc.)

        
Mobile (mobile operating system, mobile web browser, mobile VM, etc.)

        
Middleware (ESP, ETL, ELT, etc.)

        
Infrastructure (public cloud, private cloud, software defined network, hyperconverged OS, IOT management)





The following industries are used to categorize success cases:





  
Aerospace

  
Appliances

  
Commerce

  
Construction

  
Entertainment

  
Finance

  
Housing

  
Insurance

  
Life Sciences

  
Manufacturing

  
Media

  
Public Administration & Government

  
Research

  
Retail

  
Software

  
Telecommunication

  
Tolling

  
Tourism

  
Travel

  
Transport

  
Web





Categories have been chosen on purpose taking into account the increaing convergence in IT:





        
application convergence (ERP, CRM, Web, Project, Big Data)

        
infrastructure convergence (server OS, networking, routing, hyperconverged OS)

        
desktop convergence (desktop OS, web browser, VM)

        
mobile convergence (mobile OS, mobile browser, VM)

        
middleware (ESB, ETL, etc.)



        



The difference between application and communication, for example, is that 

application is intended to be primarily persistent and communication is not. Online messaging can thus be 

considered in some cases as communication (such as SMTP email) and in other cases as application

(such as in a CRM).