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Prominent organizations

Organizations that contribute to the development and expansions of free and open source software movements exist all over the world. These organizations are dedicated to goals such as teaching and spreading technology. As listed by a former vice president of the open source initiative, some American organizations include the free software foundation, software freedom conservancy, the open source initiative and software in the public interest. Within Europe some notable organizations are Free Software Foundation Europe, open source projects EU (OSP) and openforum europe (OFE). One Australian organization is linux australia while Asia has open source asia and fossasia. free and open source software for africa (FOSSFA) and openafrica are African organizations and Central and South Asia has such organizations as FLISOL and GRUP de usuarios de software libre peru. Outside of these, many more organizations dedicated to the advancement of open source software exist.