Open 100 – companies in alphabetical order

The 40 Fires Foundation develops energy-efficient technology using an open source approach.

The first project is an open-source car, by sharing the schematics online the hydrogen powered car can be built using the minds of many.

99designs is an online ‘design contest’ marketplace, connecting the buyers and sellers of graphic design work. Users post a brief of what they want done, together with a ‘prize’ amount for the winning design. Would-be designers then respond with their ideas until the user choses a winner.

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Selling all-original DIY electronics kits – Adafruit Industries is a New York City based company that sells kits and parts for original, open source hardware electronics projects featured on www.adafruit.com as well as other cool open source electronics that they think are interesting and well-made.

Unbelievable amount of tutorials and information painstakingly written by her and some friends.

Adobe is a software developer most prominent for their PDF reader, Acrobat.

Acrobat has its very own feed-back site called Acrobat.com Ideas. It is an open feedback/suggestion system that prioritizes popular ideas submitted by users through crowdsourcing.

Akvo creates and shares internet and mobile phone tools that for the first time make it easy for everyone to reach out and fund thousands of new water and sanitation projects, in some of the poorest parts of the world. This is really important, because today 2.6 billion people lack sanitation facilities and 1.1 billion still can’t access safe drinking water. Fix this, and people climb out of poverty fast.…

Akvo focuses on solving three problems through openness: – Open knowledge sharing. It runs www.akvopedia.org, an information portal designed to act as a “wikipedia for water”, which is open and free for all to use. – Find projects to fund, or find donors to fund your project. www.akvo.org is an online marketplace designed to scale to feature very large numbers of small-scale water and sanitation projects online, visible to…

The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache Software Foundation hosts over fifty open source projects that share a common culture of collaborative development. The foundation is best known for its Apache HTTP Server – a web server.  Apache is also a part of LAMP.

The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers. The software they produce is distributed under the terms of the Apache License and is therefore free and open source software (FOSS). The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus-based development process and an open and pragmatic software license. Each project is managed by a self-selected team of technical experts who are active contributors to the project.

The computer company allow users to interact with the iPhone API and submit their own created applications for downloading on their App Store.

By letting users interact with the open workings of the iPhone, users can create their own applications which can then be redistributed freely, subject to consideration.

Promoting, selling, debugging one of the first open-source hardware in the world of physical computing. Developing & releasing open-souce IDE for programming different platforms produce all over the world

You can download and realise your own personal hardware, using and sharing somebodyelse’s design. A huge crowd-related experience pointing on the playground, where all the steps are pulled behind. boom.

Atizo connects companies with non-employee innovators. The companies and innovators collaborate to create new ideas or concepts for the company to use. The innovators who come up with the best ideas are given rewards defined by the company.

Atizo uses the tools of more traditional Open Source models and applies them to the innovation process. For example, the ideas generated in the ‘ideation phase’ are available under licences similar to CC and LGPL.

Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool developed by 37signals.

Basecamp offers to-do lists, wiki-style web-based text documents, milestone management, file sharing, time tracking, and a messaging system.