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Founded in 1990, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading non-profit foundation for defending civil liberties in the digital space. EFF strongly believes in users privacy, technology development, freedom of expression, grassroots activism, and creative innovation. EFF aims to defend the rights and freedoms on the digital medium as technology continues to grow. EFF was the leaders who paved the way for open source software, advocate the use of encryptions, fight for file sharing P2P tools, and embrace the incredible growth in emerging technological fields. EFF provided a network of concerned members and organizations to educate the public and press by providing annual analysis reports, educational guides, and workshops. EFF is the main shield against illegal surveillance and defender of free speech online.
EFF is a donor-funded US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that depends on your support to strengthen the movement to defend digital freedom.

Blender is the go-to free and open source 3D creation suite. Blender supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.

Ubuntu Touch is the touch-friendly mobile version of the well-loved Ubuntu operating system. Originally designed and developed by Canonical, the project now lives on in the UBports community.

The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes software freedom with the GNOME Project, which is an easy-to-use free software-computing platform for the general public to use. The foundation provides a helping hand in the process, resources, and infrastructure of the project, which is headed by top tier engineers who smash bugs, develop code, and helps users understand the open source program.

SeaMonkey is a Free and Open Source all-in-one internet suite. It contains an Internet browser, email, and newsgroup client and also includes a web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools.

Snoonet is an IRC network and community hub optimized to accommodate and explore community culture online. Its network infrastructure is maintained by the top communities from around the internet, and their most proactive community leaders.

Kiwi IRC provides a free platform for online communities to discuss, socialise, and work together remotely as teams. Using decentralised IRC networks and entirely open source, we work on improving IRC and the standards for all IRC projects to push forward online discussions together. With millions of users each month, Kiwi IRC brings a proven and tested online chat platform to the modern world of mobile devices and ease of use.

Index on Censorship is a nonprofit that campaigns for and defends free expression worldwide. Index publishes work by censored writers and artists, promote debate, and monitor threats to free speech. Index believes that everyone should be free to express themselves without fear of harm or persecution – no matter what their views. Index’s aim is to raise awareness about threats to free expression and the value of free speech as the first step to tackling censorship.

Bitcoin Block Explorer is an open source web tool that allows users to view information about the transactions, blocks, and addresses created by Bitcoin. It provides a very simple, easy-to-view format for all the Bitcoin trading blocks.

Software Freedom Conservancy is a non-profit organization that helps with the promotion and development of Free/Libre, and Open Software (FLOSS) projects. This organization provides a free infrastructure for FLOSS projects and allows developers to continue to develop the best open source software for the public. Conservancy provides a variety of services for accepted member projects such as allocate directed donations to their projects, assist in copyrights, trademarks, domain names, and title and ownership of physical hardware. Member project’s leaders will take full credit for their assets and titles sponsored by Conservancy. The directors and members of Conservancy strongly believes in the core principles of software freedom and that all users have the right to improve and share their software with others.

ITU, or International Telecommunication Union, is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies. Allocating global radio spectrum and satellite orbits, developing the technical standards that ensure networks and technologies seamlessly interconnect, and striving to improve access to ICTs to underserved communities worldwide. ITU is committed to connecting all the world's people – wherever they live and whatever their means. Through our work, we protect and support everyone's fundamental right to communicate. Private Internet Access is happy to not only support but to be a member of this outstanding international association.

CES is THE world’s largest gathering place for all things technology. For more than 40 years CES has been the proving ground and showcase for the newest of new technologies available from every corner of the market. This is a forum for the leaders of the industry to meet and discuss current issues, as well as to demonstrate their newest achievements. Private Internet Access is proud and excited to be a sponsor of this year’s event!

Private Internet Access is the lead supporter of HackPrinceton, a marathon software and hardware product creation event. It brings together over 600 of the nation's most promising developers and designers to create incredible software and hardware projects.

Freenode is an IRC network providing an interactive environment to a variety of groups and organizations, specifically for the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities, non-profit organizations, and other related communities. Run by a group of volunteers from a variety of FOSS communities, Freenode aims to help many of their users to communicate and collaborate with peer-directed projects which relates to free software and open source.

KDE is an international team co-operating on development and distribution of Free, Open Source Software for desktop and portable computing. Our community has developed a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment. We have a strong focus on finding innovative solutions to old and new problems, creating a vibrant, open atmosphere for experimentation.

Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software available on Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. It is used by design professionals and hobbyists worldwide to create a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics. Inkscape uses the W3C open standard SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as its native format, and is free and open-source software.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. They defend the rights of all software users. Learn more: patron.fsf.org

The Internet Society works to promote the free development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world. Through opposition of legislation limiting content or reach of the internet, they fight to encourage a positive cultural worldwide digital environment. They create and implement policy to allow the free use of internet to those with access and to spread availability to those without. The Internet is for everyone, and we at PIA are proud to help them realize this vision for all.

The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache Community of open-source software projects, which provide software products for the public good. Currently, ASF is developing more than 350 open source projects covering a wide variety of technologies.

Modaco is a tech product-based forum where users post information about various mobile devices. Members can find information about the products from all major Android- and Windows-based mobile and tablet manufacturers. Users can also buy and sell their products on the forums.

Bitcoin Talk is an open forum that allows users to discuss about the Bitcoin ecosystem. This Bitcoin community provides multiple categories ranging from Bitcoin mining to news about Bitcoin’s trajectory. This forum provides users with user based questions and answers.

WireGuard is a simple yet fast, modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec, while avoiding the massive headache. It even intends to be considerably more performant than OpenVPN. WireGuard aims to be easy to configure and deploy just like SSH.

OpenMedia works to ensure that the Internet stays open, affordable, and surveillance-free. They create community-driven campaigns to engage, educate, and empower people to safeguard the Internet.

Krita is a professional, FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists for artists. The creators of this project truly want to see affordable art tools for everyone, whether it’s for concept art, texture and matte painters, illustrations and comics, or anything else.

Private Internet Access is proud to be an Official Partner of the 4th USA Science & Engineering Festival, to be held April 16-17, 2016 in Washington, D.C. The largest and only NATIONAL science festival, features nationwide contests and school programs. More than 350,000 K-12 students and parents, over 5,000 teachers and over 3,000 STEM professionals will experience the largest celebration of STEM!

Liberties Report is a weekly YouTube podcast staring Rick Falkvinge, a traveling speaker on Information Policy. Liberties Report provides deep analysis on net liberty and the right to privacy on a global level. Liberties Report focuses on a wide range of topics within the topic of Information Policy as well as important news on crypto currency. Rick Falkvinge is a regular contributor to Private Internet Access' blog.

Financial technologies are developing faster today than ever before. The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) is the longest running and most attended finance conference for the bitcoin, finance, and currency industries. We’re proud to be the premier sponsor of the event that will take place in Miami on January 21-22, 2016.

Creative Commons is dedicated to helping people realize the full potential of the internet, such as access to education and research, full participation in culture and driving growth and productivity. Creative Commons works to keep the internet creative, free and open. In addition to being one of Creative Commons top sponsors, Private Internet Access is proud to be the lead supporter for the 2015 Creative Commons Global Summit in Seoul, Korea.

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. It is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a non-profit organization. Let's Encrypt gives people the digital certificates they need in order to enable HTTPS (SSL/TLS) for websites, for free, to create a more secure and privacy-respecting Web.

The mission of USENIX is to:

Foster technical excellence and innovation
Support and disseminate research with a practical bias
Provide a neutral forum for discussion of technical issues
Encourage computing outreach into the community at large

The Online News Association (ONA) is the world’s largest association of digital journalists. ONA’s mission is to inspire innovation and excellence among journalists around the world to better serve the public. Members include journalists, technologists, executives, academics and students who produce news for and support digital delivery systems.

Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to defending the United Kingdom’s digital liberties. Open Rights Group (ORG) is the UK's only digital campaigning organisation working to protect the rights to privacy and free speech online.

Arch Linux is an independently developed, i686/x86-64 general purpose GNU/Linux distribution. Development focuses on simplicity, minimalism, and code elegance. Arch is installed as a minimal base system, then configured by each user based on their own ideal environment.

Fight for the Future is a dedicated service to expand the Internet’s transformative power to be used at its maximum capacity. This grassroots movement wants to ensure that everyone is allowed full access to the vast resources on the Internet freely without any interruptions of censorship and surveillance. This organization fights for your freedom online as well as for your privacy. They aim to tackle issues pertaining to copywriting, slow speed and limited access to content, and spying on your private information. Fight for the Future!

Private Internet Access was proud to be a sponsor of LA Hacks event that took place on April 3-5, 2015 at UCLA. LA hackathon is a student competition to build the most exciting technology products within a timeframe of 36 hours. It provides an opportunity for students across the country to create products that demonstrate and enhance their skills.

Access is an international human rights organization premised on the belief that political participation and the realization of human rights in the 21st century is increasingly dependent on access to the Internet and other forms of technology. It was founded in the wake of the 2009 Iranian post-election crackdown, Access teams with digital activists and civil society groups internationally to build their technical capacity and to help them advocate globally for their digital rights. Access provided thought leadership and practical policy recommendations in the border field of Internet freedom, and based on the expertise mobilizes its global movement of citizens to campaign for an open Internet accessible to all.

Linux Mint is the most popular desktop Linux distribution and the 3rd most widely used home operating system behind Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS. The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system, which is both powerful and easy to use.

NW.js, previously known as node-webkit, lets you call all Node.js modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies.

Why is there still no standard, ubiquitous, interoperable way to place a phone call on the internet? Matrix provides a common language for interoperable communication. Matrix.org is a non-profit initiative in the UK. It acts as a neutral guardian of the Matrix spec, nurturing and growing Matrix for the benefit of the whole ecosystem.

The RightsCon summit series is the premiere event convened around the issue of an open Internet. The goal is to produce measurable outcomes by convening the most influential voices across stakeholder lines on topical and current issues on the protection and future of the Internet.

Private Internet Access has become the Title Sponsor for Digital Chaos, an esports team dedicated to the game Dota2. Comprised of 5 teammates from around the world, Digital Chaos is currently ranked 3rd in the United States and 16th worldwide. International champion Kurtis “Aui 2000” Ling will be joined by former Mousesports player Sam “Bulba” Sosale, and from Team Liquid, Tyler “TC” Cook. Yawar Hassan and Dat “Biryu” Quoc Ha round out the roster of this newly formed team. Go to digitalchaos.gg to see more content from PIA’s favorite gaming team!

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