Organizations such as the Open Networking Foundation and the Open Networking Research Center are focused on developing industry standards.
After Mr Khodorkovsky's arrest, every organisation supported by his Open Russia Foundation was visited by tax inspectors.
During his opening keynote, Frank Francovsky of Facebook and Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation used power supplies as an example.
Microsoft and Google were early adopters of the scheme, and took seats on the board of the Open ID Foundation in 2007.
In a new paper for the Turkish arm of the Open Society Foundation, a liberal pressure group, the Democratic politician Howard Dean is blunter.
The Austrian Government is the main sponsor of the 2nd UN Inter-agency Meeting which has also received a contribution from the Open Society Foundation, via DEMOS Guatemala.
"This is a realization of the Open Compute Project's mission of 'hacking conventional computing infrastructure, '" said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and VP of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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"We're thrilled to see Fusion-io launching ioScale in conjunction with the Open Compute Summit and making this high-performance, low-power technology more broadly available, " said Frank Frankovsky, Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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"We're excited about the flexibility that these technologies can bring to hardware and how silicon photonics will enable us to interconnect these resources with less concern about their physical placement, " said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and vice president of hardware design at supply chain at Facebook.
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UNESCO's Office in Apia funded the original development of the Open Content Licensing for Educators, and enabled the OER Foundation to adopt an open and collaborative development process including volunteers from the OER Foundation, WikiEducator, the OpenCourseWare Consortium and Creative Commons.
As a nonprofit corporation and neutral forum for collaboration, the Bitcoin Foundation follows the successful model of open source bodies like the Linux Foundation and the Tor Project.
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The dramatic impact reported in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Open Notes demand the attention of any forward-looking healthcare leader.
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He has already sought to streamline Nokia by cutting 1, 8000 jobs, and by moving it away from reliance on the open-source Symbian Foundation.
Laying down the rules of the game and being prepared to enforce them is a vital foundation for open economies, low taxes and free enterprise.
The fact that Google, the industry's new giant, sits on a foundation of open-source code buried the idea that it was not powerful or reliable enough for heavy-duty use.
Citrix, one of the primary cloud vendors, has discontinued contributing software projects to OpenStack, the open-source software foundation for cloud development, of which it had been one of the founding partners.
The video also featured Tajbakhsh, an urban planning consultant with the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute.
George Soros is a keen backer of campaign-finance reform through his foundation, the Open Society Institute.
The couple is building The Broad, a new contemporary art museum and worldwide headquarters for their foundation, to open in Los Angeles in early 2014.
The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
Their most prominent donor, the financier George Soros, runs a foundation, the Open Society Institute, that has spent as much as a hundred million dollars a year in America.
Google is also working with Adobe and Mozilla, the foundation behind the open-source Firefox Web browser to rework how third party technologies, such as Flash, are built into browsers, Upson wrote.
The Razzies were set up by copywriter and publicist John Wilson as the antithesis to the Oscars, and are voted for by members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation, which is open to anyone.
When he started researching online, he found out about RepRap, an open-source project for 3D printing, which provided the foundation to at least start creating a 3D printer, not only because of the open-source instructions but also because of a community of enthusiastic tinkerers like himself.
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In a blog post the day Bond came out, Timothy Sandefer of the Pacific Legal Foundation said the decision could open a new front in the Obamacare wars because legal scholars had previously assumed only the states could sue.
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Heinz ( HNZ - news - people ) Kerry Foundation award, public advocate for husband John's presidential bid, and was listed as a "grantee" on the 2006 Soros Foundation Network Report within their Open Society Institute's "Politicization of Science Program".
The Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation is set to open in late 2012.
That's how we'll open the doors of opportunity and lay a new foundation for our economic growth -- by investing in our citizens.
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On the other hand, a small group of Samsung engineers has been working on medical applications of eye tracking, using open source code from Eyecan and the Not Impossible Foundation.
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