Easynews has enjoyed a phenomenally successful business over the last 10 years. We feel it is important to support the people, software and community around us that have made our success, as a company and as individuals, possible. Currently, our philanthropies include:
- World Community Grid
- World Computer Exchange
- WiderNet
- SourceForge
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The American Red Cross
- OPTE.ORG Mapping Project
- PBS - Public Broadcasting Service
- NPR - National Public Radio
- Internet Mirrors (Apache, CPAN, GNU, Kernel.org, Mozilla, MySQL, PHP, and others).
Easynews has become a partner of World Community Grid™, joining the IBM Corporation and a group of leading foundations, public organizations and academic institutions.
We support World Community Grid™ by offering our users incentives to donate their idle-CPU time to World Community Grid™ when they belong to the Easynews team.
The mission of World Community Grid™ is to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity. World Community Grid™ is making technology available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid. As part of our commitment to advancing human welfare, all results will be in the public domain and made public to the global research community.
The current World Community Grid™ project is the Human Proteome Folding project. The Human Proteome Folding project will provide scientists with data that predicts the shape of a very large number of human proteins. These predictions will give scientists the clues they need to identify the biological functions of individual proteins within the human body. With an understanding of how each protein affects human health, scientists can develop new cures for human diseases such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, SARS, and malaria. Visit the About the Project page for a non-scientist description of proteins and how World Community Grid™ folds proteins using the agent software on your PC.
NOTE: In Novermber 2005, Easynews decided to switch from Grid.org to the World Community Grid™ because of the Grid.org database failure. This database failure has made it almost impossible for us to correctly credit the participating users for their earned gigs.
- WORLD COMMUNITY GRID, the name and logo, are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the U.S., other countries, or both, and are used under license.
Easynews® is proud to support the World Computer Exchange (WCE) and WiderNet.org by offering free Easynews® accounts to individuals that donate to these organizations.
Easynews® is a strong, almost militant, supporter of Free Software, Free Information, Free Speech, and other Personal Civil Freedoms. We believe one of the best ways to globally promote these Ideals is to bridge the Technology, Education and Information gap between rich and poor countries. One of the best ways to bridge the gap is to donate used computer hardware and software to countries that can not afford them.
World Computer Exchange has donated over 10,000 computers to 23 countries. WCE has a primary education focus and donates mostly to schools. WiderNet.org has donated over 2 full cargo containers of computer equipment to universities in Africa. WiderNet's eGranary Digital Library maintains large web-sites, such as the Linux Documentation Project, on the LAN at African universities. Having access to over 1.3 million web pages on the LAN enables university staff and students quick access to valuable information.
We support SourceForge by providing a full download mirror free of charge to help support the Open Source community.
SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development web site, hosting more than 100,000 projects and over 1,000,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code. SourceForge.net has the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet, and hosts more Open Source development products than any other site or network worldwide. SourceForge.net provides a wide variety of services to projects we host, and to the Open Source community.
We support the EFF by allowing our users to easily donate $1 to the EFF when they signup to Easynews by simply clicking a checkbox. This has resulted in significant user generated donations to the EFF that are distributed monthly to the EFF.
From the Internet to the iPod, technologies of freedom are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. These technologies are increasingly under attack, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense, protecting our civil liberties in the networked world. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990.well before the Internet was on most people's radar.and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.
Blending the expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists, EFF achieves significant victories on behalf of consumers and the general public. EFF fights for freedom primarily in the courts, bringing and defending lawsuits even when that means taking on the US government or large corporations. By mobilizing more than 50,000 concerned citizens through our Action Center, EFF beats back bad legislation. In addition to advising policymakers, EFF educates the press and public. Sometimes just defending technologies isn't enough, so EFF also helps fund and build freedom-enhancing inventions.
Easynews supports the Red Cross by periodically offering to buy back gigabytes from our users to raise money to donate to Red Cross disaster Funds.
Easynews and our users have contributed significant amounts to:
- Liberty Disaster Relief Fund (September 11th, 2001)
- International Response Fund (Tsunami 2004)
- National Disaster Relief Fund (Hurricane Katrina 2005)
Each year, the American Red Cross responds immediately to more than 70,000 disasters, including house or apartment fires (the majority of disaster responses), hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hazardous materials spills, transportation accidents, explosions, and other natural and man-made disasters.
Red Cross disaster relief focuses on meeting people's immediate emergency disaster-caused needs. When a disaster threatens or strikes, the Red Cross provides shelter, food, and health and mental health services to address basic human needs. In addition to these services, the core of Red Cross disaster relief is the assistance given to individuals and families affected by disaster to enable them to resume their normal daily activities independently.
The Red Cross also feeds emergency workers, handles inquiries from concerned family members outside the disaster area, provides blood and blood products to disaster victims, and helps those affected by disaster to access other available resources.
We support the OPTE project by making our network resources available to mirror the project's large graphical maps.
"This project was created to make a visual representation of a space that is very much one-dimensional, a metaphysical universe. The data represented and collected here serves a multitude of purposes: Modeling the Internet, analyzing wasted IP space, IP space distribution, detecting the result of natural disasters, weather, war, and esthetics/art. This project is free and represents a lot of donated time, please enjoy." -- opte.org
We support PBS and NPR by offering challenge grants during their major fund raisers.
PBS, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, is a private, non-profit media enterprise owned and operated by the nation's 349 public television stations. A trusted community resource, PBS uses the power of noncommercial television, the Internet and other media to enrich the lives of all Americans through quality programs and education services that inform, inspire and delight. Available to 99 percent of American homes with televisions and to an increasing number of digital multimedia households, PBS serves nearly 100 million people each week.
NPR was created as a private, non-profit organization to provide leadership in national newsgathering and production and to provide the first permanent nationwide interconnection of non-commercial stations. NPR, renowned for journalistic excellence and standard-setting news, information, and cultural programming, serves nearly 20 million listeners weekly via more than 680 NPR member stations. NPR also distributes programming to listeners in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa via NPR Worldwide, to military installations overseas via American Forces Network, and throughout Japan via cable. In its 30 years, NPR has won every major award in journalism for news and cultural programming in America.
We have chosen to support PBS and NPR for their dedication to producing ad-free, quality, informing and entertaining media for the public.
We support the Internet community by making our network resources available to mirror popularly downloaded files. By using our network resources, mirrored-sites are able to reduce their bandwidth expenditures. We currently mirror:
We choose to support sites that promote open-source software development and/or foster personal communication technologies.
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