Other than sugarsuite? Although I guess you can vote for that.

The question is the main issue of my dissertation. I am studying motivation and reasons for participating in a project for free -(its not only software developers and programmers). I find this a very intersting socio-technological subject that proves the effectiveness of unpaid motivation in high-capitalistic world economy.

who pays people to work on opensource projects?

If there is a gap in the open source software world for a particular application/system, is it generally possible to find companies/public organisations to help fund the creation of that project if someone is willing to coordinate / manage the project? Does anyone have any examples of projects initiated in this way? I’m thinking of a scale of project larger than a Google summer of code.

Zenoss Core is an enterprise network and systems management application written in Python/Zope. Zenoss provides an integrated product for monitoring availability, performance, events and configuration across layers and across platforms.

Implementation of innovative methods in development of Qualitative Web Templates for Web Application Platforms, based on XOOPS such as XOOPS, ImpressCMS, EXM System and others open source CMS.

Covered is a Verilog code coverage utility using VCD/LXT dumpfiles (or VPI simulation interface) and the design to generate line, toggle, memory, combinational logic, FSM state/arc and assertion coverage report metrics viewable via GUI or ASCII format.

OsiriX - 3D DICOM Viewer for MacOS X. Complete DICOM Viewer with complete DICOM network support ! DICOM DICOM !

Inforama - Document Automation. Document templates, generation and distribution. Create letter templates using OpenOffice and import existing Acrobat forms. Merge data to produce high quality PDF documents and automatically email, print and view.

MapaTube is a mashup between Freemind and YouTube to allow for a different way of searching and finding videos. It shows a mindmap of YouTube videos based on a search string and each of the videos tags which allow for another search...