We are a group of (Cologne and Bonn) citizens acting against the part-by-part cutback of our constitutional state and the danger of a surveillance state caused by data retention. As an organisation, we are not related with a political party and welcome everyone willing to join and to discuss with us.

Arch Linux is a leightweight and flexible Linux distribution aimed at advanced users.

An international association of national programmer and software engineer groups whose mission is to facilitate collaboration, exchange of information, and assistance among its member groups that apply to become part of this association.

The association is therefore a collection groups that meet up, strategize and write code with the main goal being: developing a capacity to assist poor communities in their respective countries and around the world.

Some of our future programmes shall include developer conferences, agile development of software through viral nomadic coding, networking, and much more

Chicken is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. It produces portable, efficient C, supports almost all of the R5RS Scheme language standard, and includes many enhancements and extensions. The community maintains a comprehensive and steadily growing collection of libraries (eggs). Chicken runs on Linux, MacOS X, Windows, and many Unix flavours.

collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to transfer and store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files. The collected information can be used to find current performance bottlenecks (performance analysis) and predict future system load (capacity planning). The collected data includes CPU and memory usage, network and disk I/O, temperatures, E-mail statistics, USV data, and many more.

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join.

The Fedora Project is out front for you, leading the advancement of free, open software and content.

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.
   

The Firebird Project is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Borland.

FreeWRT is a meta GNU/Linux distribution for embedded systems. In this context "meta" means, you can build the complete distribution from source. FreeWRT is meant to be an appliance development kit (ADK) especially designed for embedded system developers and advanced users.

There is an experimental Webinterface using Tntnet.

Kubuntu is a beginner-friendly Linux distribution with KDE as the desktop environment. It is easy to install, easy to use, but does not get in the way of advanced users. A large variety of software gets preinstalled: Konqueror, KDE PIM (e-mail and organizer), OpenOffice, Amarok, Dragon Player, K3b, Dolphin and more - and many many more programs are available in the software repositories for easy installation. Kubuntu has a six-month release cycle, being published in April and October.

Kubuntu-de.org is the German-language Kubuntu community. It provides regular news about Kubuntu, KDE and Linux in general. But most importantly it is the place to find help in the forum, on IRC, on the mailing list and in the wiki, from getting started to intricacies. The Kubuntu community supports the motto of Kubuntu as "Linux for human beings".

The German Unix User Group, founded in 1984, is a non-profit organization for professional system and network administrators, security experts and system programmers which prefer to use a Unix operating system.

Unix, in our understanding, includes free systems like Linux, BSD and OpenSolaris variants as well as commercial Unix systems. Important to us are open and well defined interfaces and APIs, the compliance with internet and other open standards and last but not least: the chance to have a look deep into the system.

Hardhack is a hands-on hardware hacking event. Hardhack will be a guest of FrOSCon 2010. Our event will include workshops, soldering, demos of open source hardware and hardware projects, and open source hardware kits for sale. Our Motto is: Get your hands dirty to understand hardware.

Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over a network and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries, and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations.

Far beyond a simple fork of Nagios, Icinga supports PostgreSQL and Oracle while offering a flexible architecture based on an API for easier extension. Top it off with the most user-friendly and customisable web interface and you have Icinga - open source monitoring to the next level.

invis servers are openSUSE-based servers for micro and small enterprises. They offer comprehensive services in office communication, network and data storage organization - from DHCP to ERP. They are characterized by ease of use and administration. The web-based "invis-Portal" is the central user and administration interface and allows independence from client operating systems.

Objectives of the project are:
Micro and small companies that have an only low or no IT expertise, should be able to provide administrative activities e.g. the network integration of new PCs or printers. To carry out IT service providers a system for simple manufacturing complete server appliances for the small business sector.To promote free software in micro and small enterprises.

invis servers are designed  that all current applications including operating system are based on open source software.

The KDE Community is an international technology team dedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and a platform to easily build new applications upon. We have a strong focus on finding innovative solutions to old and new problems, creating a vibrant atmosphere open for experimentation.

Lumiera is the ongoing effort to create a free non linear video editor with professional users in mind. It emerged from the Cinelerra community and is under heavy development.

More specifically, Lumiera is targetted at editing a short or full feature movie, which means working with a lot of footage. Lumiera is built with a flexible and extensible structure right from start.

We, the Lumiera developers, will meet at FrOSCon '10 again. While we are all there, we want to take the chance to promote Lumiera. We will introduce the project vision about a free video future.

MirOS BSD is a secure operating system from the BSD family for 32-bit i386 and sparc systems. It is based on 4.4BSD-Lite (mostly OpenBSD, some NetBSD®). The MirPorts Framework is a portable ports tree to facilitate the installation of additional software. The project also releases some portable software: mksh, a pdksh-based shell; PaxMirabilis, an archiver for various formats; MirMake, a framework for building software; MirNroff, an AT&T nroff based man page (and text document) formatter; MirCksum, a flexible checksumming and hash generation tool; and some more.

NetBSD was started 1993 to continue the multi-platform capability of the old Berkeley Unix (BSD). From this stems it's almost striking feature of being able to run on so many hardware platforms - more than 50! NetBSD supports more architectures from a single source code than any other operating system. Hence the project's slogan: Of course it runs NetBSD! This expresses the attitude of the NetBSD developers: Write correct code on the basis of abstracted system interfaces which is secure, stable, portable and fast. In many cases the choice for NetBSD is easy since there's simply no alternative on some hardware platforms. These range from embedded devices and handhelds over to Desktop PCs and 64 bit SMP-Opteron systems with multiple CPU cores. Lately there's been strong initiative supporting virtualization platforms like Xen. Applications for NetBSD are available with the NetBSD package collection „pkgsrc”, now used by DragonFly BSD too. Today there are a few thousand applications available, from databases to webservers, from Desktop environments to firewall apps. LiveCDs for NetBSD are also available like NewBIE and Xenoppix.

openITCOCKPIT is an open source project for system management based on Nagios. openITCOCKPIT is the result of several Nagios projects in complex IT landscapes. As umbrella management system, openITCOCKPIT integrates various open source tools making it a universal monitoring system: Starting from regional offices to the headquarter, from infrastructure to applications.

openITCOCKPIT supports all critical components, systems and services following industry standards and enables agent based monitoring as well as agentless monitoring. With its shared monitoring approach and bidirectional communication fpr master and slave systems, openITCOCKPIT can carry out cross-checks of several management servers. Besides distributing checks on several nodes, openITCOCKPIT also supports an alternative architecture approach with multi-layer strategy distinguishing between monitoring, aggregation, middleware, and presentation layer.

Compared to Nagios, openITCOCKPIT provides an intuitive web user interface. The management console is based on PHP and provides intuitive access to all data, analyses and reports. Dashboards help to identify problems before they hit.

Open Source Press is a computer book publisher based in Munich, Germany. The company specialises on high-quality publications on topics related to open-source software and philosophy. It was founded in 2003.

The OpenSolaris Operating System offers unique features designed to help you build and deploy high-performance application services, starting with the Image Packaging System (IPS), continuing to the latest enhancements to the award-winning ZFS and featuring integrated virtualizaton options that span OS, network and storage -- and that's just the beginning. OpenSolaris gives you next generation Solaris technologies coupled with the best in open source software and a vibrant development community.

openSUSE is a free and Linux-based operating system for your PC, Laptop or Server. You can surf the web, manage your e-mails and photos, do office work, play videos or music and have a lot of fun!

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows. It is fully ACID compliant, has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages). It includes most SQL:2008 data types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and TIMESTAMP. It also supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, ODBC, among others, and exceptional documentation.

sidux™ is a distribution based on debian unstable which  makes it pretty unique. at conventions we consider promoting the project is more important than hacking.we also like to support FrOSCon with a good and lively appearance. last years fair was quite promising for the future.

TroLUG (Troisdorfer Linux User Group)

The Ubuntu project settled its way so that Linux can be more accessible to a bigger mass. And it should never mind how much knowledge or handicaps are available. Everybody should be able to use the computer as support for different tasks or spending his free time.

It is not the main reason to keep the Ubuntu project as easy as possible but also to make the access to the community and to cooperate on the project in the easiest way.

To lighten the entrance Ubuntu delivers the most important applications (office applications, browsers, e-mail programs, ...) straight with. The main devise is to have only one application for one aim and not to confuse beginners.

Ubuntu will be issued every six months to make new developments and betterments in a stable enviroment available to every user.

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources.

Xfce 4.6 embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and re-usability. It consists of a number of components that together provide the full functionality of the desktop environment. They are packaged separately and you can pick and choose from the available packages to create the best personal working environment.

The new major release Xfce 4.8 is scheduled for the end of 2010 and will come with many new interesting features.