Primary Groups

Primary groups are those which have a formal or informal claim on the names associated with their groups or projects. They can reserve primary channels on the network. The following such groups and projects maintain official relationships with freenode and PDPC. Each is listed along with the top level domain(s) under which its affiliated users may be cloaked. Cloaks are special "virtual hostnames" which appear on a user's freenode session to indicate that user's affiliation with a group.

Peer-Directed Projects Center attempts to verify information submitted on group contact forms and tries to minimize name conflicts, giving priority to trademark owners and peer-directed project groups. Due to the informal nature of community interactions, uncertainties may exist regarding the ownership of some names.

For information on the privacy of group contact information, please see our interim group privacy policy. See Group Registration for information on establishing an official relationship with freenode by submitting contact information for your group or organization.

aalug		AALUG, the Athens (Ohio USA) Area Linux Users Group.
aberlug		Aberdeen Linux Users Group, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
abiertos		Abiertos.org, the Dominican Republic's largest GNU/Linux users' group.
afterstep		The AfterStep window manager for X.
allegro		Allegro, a freely-distributed game programming library.
americaonline, aol		America Online, a division of Time Warner, Inc.
ampache		Ampache, a web-based tool for maintaing music files and playlists.
aolserver		AOLserver, America Online's TCL-enabled, multithreaded web server project (Time Warner, Inc.).
apache, asf		Apache Software Foundation, Wilmington, DE USA.
aperturadigital		Fundación Apertura Digital, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, AR. A not-for-profit organization which promotes the use of free software in the governmental and private sectors in Argentina.
asterisk		Asterisk,, the Open Source PBX. A project of Digium, Inc.
asturlab		Asturlab,, Pravia, Asturias, ES. A youth association for computer science and technological subjects.
autopackage		autopackage, a distro-neutral binary packaging framework for Linux systems.
beigetower		Beige Tower, a community web infrastructure project. Avida Jaene, Inc., San Francisco, CA USA.
blender		Blender Foundation, Amsterdam, NL, the not-for-profit foundation which administers the development of Blender, an open source application for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
brlcad		BRL-CAD, a Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) based solid modeling system. U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD USA.
calvix		CaLviX, Caen, FR. A not-for profit association, the GNU/Linux Users Group for Caen and Calvados, FR.
canonical, ubuntu		Canonical, Ltd., Douglas, Isle of Man, UK.
cdk		CDK, the Chemistry Development Kit.
cogitateurs-agitateurs		Cogitateurs Agitateurs, a group for thinking and acting about free information.
colloquy		Colloquy, a Mac OSX internet chat client.
cc, creativecommons		Creative Commons Corporation., Cambridge, MA USA.
danga		Danga Interactive, Inc., Beaverton, OR USA.
debiancenter		Debian Center, a reference site for Debian and repository for unofficial Debian projects (System Defender, Ltd., not affiliated with SPI or the Debian Project).
digium, digium.sponsor.pdpc		Digium, Inc., Wilmington, DE USA.
docbook		DocBook Open Repository.
dragonflycms		Dragonfly CMS, a content management system / portal application.
dspam		DSPAM, statistical spam protection.
durhamlug		DurhamLUG, a Linux Users' Group for the district of Durham in Ontario, CA.
efentharwireless		Efenthar Wireless, a community wireless network-in-planning in New Zealand.
eicq		eicq, an ICQ client for xemacs.
ember		ember, an early-stage operating system project based on the MIT Exokernel design.
eogeo		EOGEO, Ltd., Needham MA USA, an IRS 501(c)(03) organization chartered to provide access to geospatial data to the not-for-profit sector and the general public.
epiar		Epiar, a C/SDL/OpenAL space shooter arcade game.
fedora, fedora-es		The Fedora Project (Red Hat, Inc).
ferm		Ferm, a firewall scripting tool (Foo-Projects.org).
fire		fire, a multi-protocol IM client for OS X.
firefox		Firefox, the award winning next-generation web-browser from Mozilla.
foo-projects		Foo-Projects.org, an OSS development group.
freecnc		FreeCNC, an SDL-based game engine.
freedesktop		The freedesktop.org community collaboration zone.
freematrix		Freematrix Radio, a streaming radio service.
freenode		The freenode interactive network, a service of Peer-Directed Projects Center.
freevo		Freevo, a home theatre PC platform based on Linux and open-source audio/video tools.
fsf		Free Software Foundation, Boston, MA USA.
gallery		Gallery, a web-based application for website photo management.
galago		Galago, a framework for transmitting presence information between desktop applications.
gentoo		Gentoo Foundation, Inc., NM USA, and the Gentoo Linux distribution.
geoshell		Geoshell, a GPL-licensed replacement shell for Windows™, intended to replace the Explorer interface.
gfsgl		GFSGL, a Windows game installer/launcher for GNU/Linux.
gnash		Gnash, a GNU project to produce a free, portable and usable flash decoder.
gnokii		The gnokii mobile phone tool project.
guifications		Guifications, a graphical notification plugin for the gaim instant message client.
gnu, savannah		The GNU Project (Free Software Foundation).
gpm		GPM, general purpose mouse support for the Linux console.
growl		Growl, a global notification system for Mac OS X.
hoodlug		Fort Hood Linux Users Group (informal; Fort Hood, Texas, USA).
horde		The Horde Project, a web-based application framework and associated applications.
httpcraft		A support group helping people with all areas of web craft.
ignitionproject		The Ignition Project, an IRC server with services.
imgames		IMGames, a client-independent IM entertainment project.
interchange		Interchange, an open source commerce server project.
irssi		irssi, an IRC client.
kde		The KDE Project and its parent organization, K Desktop Environment e.V., Tuebingen, Germany.
konversation		konversation, a user-friendly IRC client (K Desktop Environment e.V.).
linuxfordummies		LinuxForDummies, a Linux/Unix support site.
livejournal		LiveJournal, an online journalling/blogging site (Danga Interactive, Inc).
lugbari		LUGBari, Bari Linux User Group, Castellana Grotte, Bari, IT.
lunar		Lunar Linux, a source-based Linux distribution designed to provide tailored and optimized software for the end-user (Foo-Projects.org).
madwifi		MADWiFi, a Linux kernel driver for Atheros-based Wireless LAN devices.
mandriva		Mandriva (name change in process, currently Mandrakesoft, S.A., Paris, FR).
mepislovers		Mepis Lovers, a website and forum for Mepis Linux.
moinmoin		MoinMoin, a nice and easy WikiEngine with advanced features.
mysql		MySQL AB, Uppsala, SE. The developers of the MySQL database management system, a key component of the LAMP open source application stack.
-		NASA Learning Technologies, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.
nectarine		Nectarine Networks, a sole proprietorship providing community internet services, Sinalunga, Siena, IT.
netbsd		NetBSD Foundation, New York, NY USA.
no-sources		No-Sources, a Linux kernel source patch set for workstations or desktop machines.
nslu2-linux		The nslu2-linux development group and user community.
nullteam		Null Team ImpExp SRL, a VoIP software development and consulting company, Bucharest, RO.
nylug		New York Linux Users' Group, New York, NY USA.
opendarwin		OpenDarwin, a cooperative fork of Apple's Darwin OS, along with related projects.
openmoko		OpenMoko, an integrated Open Source Communications Platform for GNU/Linux based mobile phones.
objectx		ObjectX.org, an alternative to over-priced, commercially available Operating Systems, and over-complicated traditional Open-Source software.
ogo		OpenGroupware.org, a project to create an open source groupware server integrated with leading open source officeware projects.
osuosl		OSUOSL, Oregon State University Open Source Laboratory, Corvallis, OR, USA.
p3m		pound-perl.pm (aka "p3m"), a coordination project for perl-related interactive chat groups, especially those on Internet Relay Chat.
pdpc		Peer-Directed Projects Center, Houston, TX USA, the IRS 501(c)(03) (not-for-profit) entity which runs freenode.
pearpc		PearPC, a generalized PowerPC architecture emulator.
photogeeks		photogeeks.org, a.k.a. The Band Formerly Known As #Photography, a discussion group for photographic interests.
phpbb		phpBB, a scalable and customizable open source bulletin board package.
phpgroupware		phpGroupWare, a multi-user groupware suite written in PHP.
pld-linux		PLD Linux, a Linux distribution for advanced users and developers.
plone		The Plone Foundation, Wilmington, DE USA. Its main project is Plone, a user friendly and powerful content management system.
poipu		Poipu, a cutting-edge, fully open source distribution of GNU/Linux.
princed		Princed, a set of free software projects related to the Prince of Persia game. Sponsored by Fundación Apertura Digital.
pseudocode		pseudocode, a web hosting community.
qgis		Quantum GIS, a Geographic Information System (GIS) built for Linux/Unix.
redhat		Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC USA.
rojo		Rojo Neworks, Inc., San Francisco, CA USA.
rsbac		RSBAC, an access control framework for current Linux kernels which supports a variety of security models.
ruslug		RUSLUG, the Rutgers University Student Linux Users Group, New Brunswick, NJ USA.
sane		SANE, an API providing standardized access to raster image scanners.
scummvm		The ScummVM game virtual machine project.
sourcemage		Source Mage, a source-based GNU/Linux distribution.
swig		Semantic Web Interest Group (World Wide Web Consortium).
svn		Subversion, a version control system designed as a compelling replacement for CVS.
suspend2		Suspend2, software suspend for the Linux kernel.
sxemacs		The sxemacs project, a fork of XEmacs 21.4.16.
systemdefender		System Defender, Ltd., Clifton Bristol, UK.
tikiwiki		Tiki CMS/Groupware Project.
timewarner		Time Warner, Inc., Glen Allen, VA USA.
townsville-lug		Townsville Linux Users Group.
twiki		TWiki Community, developers of TWiki, a mature, full featured web-based collaboration system.
twincling		TWINCLING Society, Hyderabad, India. A not-for-profit organization which develops, promotes and showcases open source software.
unixboard		Unixboard. a forum site for Unix and Linux users (DE).
unixmexico		UNIXMEXICO, a news and forum site for Mexican and Spanish-speaking *nix users.
w3		The World Wide Web Consortium (MIT, ERCIM, Keio).
wikia		Wikia, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, USA.
wikicities		WikiCities, a collection of communities with freely-editable websites (Wikia, Inc).
wikimedia		Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, USA.
wikipedia		Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (Wikimedia Foundation).
worldwind		WorldWind, an application which displays satellite images for locations around the Earth (NASA Learning Technologies).
xfce		Xfce, a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems (Foo-Projects.org).
yabtuc		yaBTuc, "yet another BitTorrent upload center."
YATE		YATE, "Yet Another Telephony Engine" (Null Team ImpExp SRL).

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