SummerOfCode¶
Free Software is taking the computer industry to its maturity.
Like the construction industry it will be profitable and will have to follow free market rules.
CREDIL wants to be the leader in this revolution by developing the basic material needed for the new knowledge economy.
What do we do? We help companies and organisations produce technological solutions to give them
an edge in their respective industry. We do sustainable innovations with software libre and
everything we do is software patent free and license under the GPL3 or similar.
CREDIL is incorporated as a non-profit.
Whenever possible we adapt existing open source projects to our sponsors needs, and
we contribute back to the project as often as we can. We use git, bzr, github, rails,
Java(on Android), python, django, Joomla, GNU/MIT/Linux, NetBSD, C/C++, Emacs, vi, redmine.
We practice various forms of Agile project management, particularly variations of
eXtreme Programming (XP).
Whenever possible we develop with open standards such as those from IETF and W3C.
We have a novel approach to working with our "customers", which we refer to as sponsors.
Our customers are companies with real problems (not other IT organizations), but for
whom IT is not their speciality.
We are working on numerous projects, big and small.
CREDIL was formally formed in the spring of 2009 with two people, based upon ideas
developed and tested from 2005 onwards. Like all good ideas, we are not the only ones, but in fact,
there are other organizations like ours, such as Costa Rica's XXXX, described in
"The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World"
CREDIL is now 5 people (plus one student), growing to 6 or 7 people in the next months.
We have 8 active projects, two are on Android, two are embedded systems, and the rest run on
generic POSIX hosts.
Ideas page.¶
For 2010 Google Summer of Code we have a list of ideas items that we are interested in,
which we think can be done by a student and which we feel would contribute to the community, and
would also be helpful to us.