Past Projects

The Shuttleworth Foundation has financed many projects in the past, specific to funding areas and the general focus of the Foundation to improve education, telecommunications and the use of technology within South Africa while driving change and policy reform.

Most of these projects are of a finite nature, being research undertakings or investigations, or have matured to the level at which they grow from being incubated by the Foundation to becoming self-sustaining initiatives in their own rights.

This section of the website contains overviews of some of the past projects that the Foundation has involved itself in and that have run their course, or moved to becoming independent.

  • Freedom Toaster

    A project to provide open content quickly and easily by allowing users to select from a range of cached open source software, literature and other media which is then burnt to their own CDs or DVDs.

  • Go Open Source

    Go Open Source was a campaign aimed at spreading awareness and encouraging the use of open source software and operating systems.

  • HIP2B²

    HIP2B² inspires learners to see the powerful impact science, technology, entrepreneurial pursuits and maths have in shaping their futures.

  • Kusasa

    Building analytical thinking skills through self and peer taught software development.

  • LEAP Maths and Science School

    The LEAP Science and Maths School aims to tackle the acute skills in shortage in South Africa as the only privately funded Maths, Science and Technology school in the country.

  • Linux Professional Institute

    The Shuttleworth Foundation represented the Linux Professional Institution (LPI) in South Africa from 2004 until the end of their affiliate relationship in February 2007.

  • SA Computer Olympiad

    The South African Computer Olympiad is an annual competition for high school learners focused on computer programming.

  • Teacher's Dream

    Teacher's Dream is a web-based funding channel dedicated to the improvement of education in South Africa.

  • tuXlab

    tuXlab is a technology model that aims to provide South African schools with highly affordable open source-based computer labs which can be easily installed and maintained by the community.

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