It is named after software freedom activist and computer programmer Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project.
Manhattan Project | GNU General Public License | Project Runway | Project Mercury | GNU | Human Genome Project | The Blair Witch Project | Project Gemini | GNU Compiler Collection | Project Greenlight | Project Nike | Project Blue Book | Federal Art Project | Project Orion | Men's Recovery Project | Eden Project | World Justice Project | Wounded Warrior Project | The Octopus Project | The Alan Parsons Project | Project Xanadu | Gotan Project | German nuclear energy project | Tony Hawk's Project 8 | The Spamhaus Project | The Mindy Project | Project Pluto | Project management | project management | Project Grudge |
This main impetus for this step came from the landmark conference "Freedom First!" convened by a group of activists (including the present Director of IC-FOSS) and supported by the government of Kerala, where the Free Software Foundation of India (FSF-India) was inaugurated by Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project.
Examples include open source software projects such as the GNU project, the Apache Software Foundation, and Linux (protected via the Linux Mark Institute).
The project began in 2004 with sponsorship of the University of Vigo for Galician language support in educational software and was officially presented in April 2005 with Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project, as a special guest.
9882 Stallman, an asteroid named after Richard Matthew Stallman, American hacker, founder of the free software movement and the GNU project