GoDaddy Donates $10K for Open Source
Scottsdale, Arizona – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – March 23, 2007 – Domain registrar and web hosting firm, GoDaddy.com, has donated $10,000 each, to Joomla, a Content Management System, and Simple Machines Forum, an online community forum, to assist in further development of the applications.
Shayne Bartlett of Joomla.org remarked, “We are delighted that Go Daddy decided to donate to an open source project like Joomla. It’s refreshing to see a big tech company supporting Joomla’s ambitions. Donations like Go Daddy’s go a long way to covering resource costs and our continued success.”
The open source community is founded on developers sharing code for the enhancement and further development of various applications. The projects are free to use. Anyone with the ability to program can customize or create new features for the product. Typically, open source projects are funded solely by donations from those who use or support the product. These initiatives need funding for everything from hardware purchases and testing to communication and development.
”Amacythe,” Project Manager of Simple Machines added, “We’re excited to see Go Daddy set this example. Hopefully, the financial support will inspire other big donations too.”
Warren Adelman, President and COO of GoDaddy.com offered, “The open source community really helped make the Internet what it is today. These projects help millions of web users everyday and we are grateful to groups like Joomla and Simple Machines for moving open source initiatives forward.”
In addition to financial contributions, Go Daddy aids the open source community by offering a free one-year SSL Certificate to all open source projects that meet the requirements. Go Daddy also makes it easy to install a number of high quality open source applications within its Metropolis Hosting Community. Metropolis Hosting Community is a shared-hosting resource center which allows users to pick and choose applications that will fit their needs. Metropolis also features a user review and feedback section, allowing individuals to interact with other hosting customers and share personal experiences regarding specific applications.
Go Daddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration and web site hosting services, as well as a broad array of on-demand and other services. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 19 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every 2 seconds. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2006, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info.
For more information about Joomla, please visit: www.Joomla.org
To learn more about Simple Machines Forum, please visit: www.SimpleMachines.org
To learn more about Go Daddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.
