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. Each is listed along with the namespace(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.

freenode 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.

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.
abiquo	abiquo Enterprise open source cloud computing platform.
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.
android	android, is an open source mobile operating system.
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.
digium, digium.sponsor.pdpc	Digium, Inc., Wilmington, DE USA.
docbook	DocBook Open Repository.
dovecot	Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server.
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.
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.
hive76	Hive76 a Philadelphia hackerspace that makes things awesome, and makes awesome things.
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).
lopsa	LOPSA The League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) is a nonprofit corporation with members throughout the world. Our mission is to advance the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve the public through education and outreach on system administration issues.
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.
metabug	Metabug, Global Federation of BSD User Groups
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.
openrightsgroup	The Open Rights Group, exists to preserve and promote your rights in the digital age. We are funded by thousands of people like you.
opensync	The OpenSync project is an ongoing effort to create a synchronization framework that will be a platform independent, general purpose synchronization engine utilizing modular plugins for content formats and different kind of connection types.
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.
penguicon	Penguicon is a combined Open Source Conference & Science Fiction Convention that takes place each Spring in South-East Michigan.
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.
qt	Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework. Using Qt, you can write applications once and deploy them across many desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code. The Qt community is a loose community of developers, translators and any kind of helpful people who develop the product or other tools & frameworks around it.
redhat	Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC USA.
rockbox	Rockbox, an open source firmware for mp3/digital audio players.
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.
sabily	Sabily is an Operating System designed for Muslims, based on Ubuntu.
sane	SANE, an API providing standardized access to raster image scanners.
scummvm	The ScummVM game virtual machine project.
shadowcat	shadowcat Shadowcat Systems Ltd is an open source focused consultancy.
sourceforge	SourceForge.net, a provider of free hosting for Open Source software development projects.
sourcemage	Source Mage, a source-based GNU/Linux distribution.
squid	Squid, web proxy cache.
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.
synecdoche	Synecdoche is a fork of Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC).
systemdefender	System Defender, Ltd., Clifton Bristol, UK.
teachingopensource	TeachingOpenSource.org is a neutral collaboration point for professors, institutions, communities, and companies to come together and make the teaching of Open Source a global success.
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).
zenoss	Zenoss Core is an open source IT monitoring product that monitors and manages the configuration, health and performance of networks, servers and applications through a single, integrated software package.