Canonical has deep roots in the open source community and is committed to supporting and growing open source software and the communities that produce it.

In addition to producing Ubuntu - an award winning distribution and making it available completely free of charge we are involved in the open source community in the following ways:

Sponsorship

Canonical sponsors a number of major open source conferences, events and organisations, including

Community scholarships

Canonical makes a limited number of places available at each Ubuntu Developer Summit for outstanding members of the Ubuntu community.

Project contributions

Canonical staff contribute directly to a wide range of open source projects, including

  • Debian
  • Zope 3
  • KDE
  • GNOME
  • Twisted
  • Python
  • GNU
  • and, of course, Linux