Linux Fund partners with the gEDA and Gnash projects

Headline: Linux Fund and the Gnash Project partner to raise funds to support RTMP streaming media

Lead: Help bring streaming media support to the open source Flash player

December 15th, 2008 - Linux Fund is pleased to announce that it has begun fundraising to enable
Gnash project developer Sandro Santilli to bring Real Time Messaging Protocol support to this open
source Flash player. This project will enable users to enjoy streaming video from a number of
popular web sites and the open source Red5, Cygnal and Dimdim servers. The Gnash/RTMP project joins
the LiVES video editing project as part of Linux Fund's growing open media initiative.

"This work will connect several open media client and server-side projects and this new source of
funding couldn't have come at a better time." says Rob Savoye of the Open Media Now! Foundation.

Gnash is an Open Media Now! Foundation initiative that is part of the GNU Project. Flash is an
animation file format pioneered by Macromedia which continues to be supported by their successor
company, Adobe. Flash has been extended to include audio and video content, and programs written in
ActionScript, an ECMAScript-compatible language. Gnash is based on GameSWF and supports most SWF v7
functionality, plus portions of SWF v8 and v9.

Visit www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ for more information about Gnash.

Sandro Santilli has worked since 1994 in the information and telecomunications fields, with a focus
toward use, promotion and improvement of open source software. He has work experience in both Italy
and North America, and has built a breath of skills focused on the continuos evolution of products,
processes and services in the ICT industry.

Gnash/RTMP work description:

* Update the rtmpget utility to fetch video resources
* Implement an IOChannel abstraction of the RTMP protocol
* Implement 'rtmp' URI schemes in the NetConnection ActionScript class
* Implement media streaming support in NetStream the ActionScript class

About the Open Media Now! Foundation

OMNow! supports free ways to create, to distribute and to display digital creative content. We are
dedicated to the development, support and empowerment of an open media infrastructure for companies
and individuals who desire more control over product technology and content. Our foundation opens
the media market by actively developing operating system-agnostic and cross-platform solutions, and
by conducting legislative research on media-related topics.

Visit www.openmedianow.org for more information about the Open Media Now! Foundation.

About Linux Fund

Linux Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides financial and supervisory support
to the open source software community. Linux Fund raises funds with its line of rewards credit
cards and direct donations, and has given over half a million dollars to open source projects since
its founding in 1999.

Visit www.linuxfund.org for more information about Linux Fund and to help bring RTMP support to
Gnash.

Headline: Linux Fund and gEDA Project partner to raise funds to boost gEDA/PCB usability

Lead: Help bring open source circuit board design into the mainstream.

December 15th, 2008 - Linux Fund is pleased to announce that it has begun fundraising to enable
gEDA Project developer DJ Delorie to enhance gEDA's flagship open source PCB layout program "PCB".
This work will significantly upgrade PCB's usability and utility for electronics designers and
educators, making it an attractive open source alternative to commercial PCB design tools. gEDA/PCB
joins the VectorSection DWG interpreter project as part of Linux Fund's growing open engineering
and hardware initiative.

PCB is a twenty year old application. Originally written in 1990 for the Atari ST, the program was
ported to Unix in 1994. Over the years, it has been maintained and extended by a series of
developers who have added improvements and new features, including a GTK port and the ability to
export Gerber files. Mr Delorie is currently one of the chief developers involved with PCB, having
become involved with the project in 2002.

DJ Delorie is well known within the open source community as the author of djgpp, a popular port of
the gcc compiler to DOS. He is also a long time user of PCB, having used the program to design a
net-enabled alarm clock which won second place in Circuit Cellar Magazine's "Microchip embedded
control" design contest in 2007. His commitment to work on PCB usability enhancements in
conjunction with funding from the Linux Fund represents a major step forward for the gEDA Project,
as well as a welcome boost to the open-hardware movement.

gEDA/PCB upgrade work description:

* Implement forward annotation using action scripts
* GUI modernization
* Enhance ability to create and edit arbitrary layer types
* Develop a new Footprint Editor
* Update Design Rule Checking

About the gEDA Project

The gEDA Project is a community of open-source developers working on creating tools for electronic
design released under the GNU Public License. The project currently offers a mature suite of free
software applications for electronics design, including schematic capture, attribute management,
bill of materials (BOM) generation, netlisting into over 20 netlist formats, analog and digital
simulation, and printed circuit board (PCB) layout.

Besides the core design tools, the gEDA Project has gathered a community of other programmers who
work on their own tools while sharing the gEDA e-mail lists, administration, and community support.
This extended set of electronics design applications as become known as the "gEDA Suite".

Visit geda.seul.org for more information about the gEDA Project.

About Linux Fund

Linux Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides financial and supervisory support
to the open source software community. Linux Fund raises funds with its line of rewards credit
cards and direct donations, and has given over half a million dollars to open source projects since
its founding in 1999.

Visit www.linuxfund.org for more information about Linux Fund and to help support the gEDA/PCB
Project.