Gandi supports alternative projects

“Gandi is, and wants to remain, a credible alternative for those that want to have a presence on the web. Our customers help us to be useful in this mission as we support companies that, whether internet-based or not, have embarked on this adventure despite the presence of well-established monopolies.”

We provide this space on our website for all the interesting projects that have been presented to us, or that we have decided to highlight. We have sorted the projects in two different levels, depending on their maturity or potential:

1st-tier projects

Today, Gandi supports the following projects, either financially, technically, administratively, or morally, which deserve to be in the spotlight:

Arrêt sur Images le retour

‘Arrêt sur Images’ must continue. One of the rare television programs that opens one’s mind. When the networks no longer want to broadcast it, Gandi has made it an obligation to help its Editor in Chief bring the project to our favourite media: the Internet.

Dotclear

Kudos for a team, and a high-quality free project in the French language. Dotclear enables you to publish your blog on the internet in just few clicks, whether you are a beginner or an expert, an individual or a business.
More about DotClear

Canard PC

Canard PC is the only weekly magazine devoted to PC videogames. Created in 2003 by former members of the editorial staff of Joystick magazine, it represents an independent alternative to the existing specialized ~~fodder~~ press. More about Canard PC

The FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights)

It represents a network of 155 organizations that defend human rights around the world. Since 1922 FIDH has been active in the combat against all forms of injustice, intolerance, racism, and discrimination. FIDH acts to protect victims of human rights abuses, the prevention of these abuses, and in the pursuit of their authors.
Gandi supports FIDH by helping consolidate its network on the internet, and to increase its visibility in order to better inform the public and to defend human rights.
More on this in the FIDH blog

GoodPlanet

GoodPlanet is a non-profit organization created and chaired by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, whose aim is to heighten public awareness of our world’s issues and promote sustainable development, allowing each of us to become an actor in our planet’s evolution and consequently our own future.
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Adie

Spotlight on an association that is well known as a public service to help people that are excluded from the traditional workplace and banking system to create their own employment through micro credit. Since its creation in 1989, Adie has financed nearly 40,000 companies, generating over 46,000 jobs.
Click here for more on Adie

SpamHaus

The Spamhaus Project is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to track the Internet's Spam Gangs, to provide dependable realtime anti-spam protection for Internet networks, to work with Law Enforcement Agencies to identify and pursue spammers worldwide, and to lobby governments for effective anti-spam legislation.

Founded in 1998, Spamhaus is based in Geneva, Switzerland and London, UK and is run by a dedicated team of 25 investigators and forensics specialists located in 9 countries.

Spamhaus publishes the Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) - a database collating information and evidence on the '200' known worst spam gangs worldwide, used by ISPs to avoid signing up known spammers who would abuse their networks and by Law Enforcement Agencies to help target and mount prosecutions against professional spammers. Visit the website

Debian

The Debian project is an association of individuals that share the common goal of creating an open-source operating system that manages resource databases and allows launching applications. Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel.
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Jamendo

By offering a simple and powerful interface, enabling the free and legal exchange of music, Jamendo is positioned as an alternative to the current economic model, totally outdated by the arrival of the internet. Based on Peer-to-peer technology and the Creative Commons licensing scheme, it includes absolutely excellent artists.
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In Libro Veritas

In Libro Veritas is a unique and fair French-language book editor that creates literature in order to allow everyone, and truly everyone, to have free unlimited access to thousands of literary works. It is also a place to write freely and to share the joy of writing with others. In Libro Veritas is not just a website where one can write and be read online, it is a place where you can have books written for and personalized by you!
More on In Libro Veritas

Selected projects

For the following projects, Gandi plays an observer role, watching their development closely. The interesting ideas that these projects convey may one day lead them to be among the 1st-tier projects, though they are mainly presented here for you to learn about them. Gandi supports them therefore, notably by giving them visibility and providing the administrative management of their domain names…

6ma.fr

An IT self-help website: tutorials, tricks & hints, downloads, software tools, webmaster, and a forum…Visit the website

Doona

Towards a kinder web… the largest and only search engine for humanitarian issues on the internet…Visit the website

TuxFamily

TuxFamily is a non-profit organization that provides free services for projects and contents dealing with the free software philosophy.visit the website