Open Source Software
If everyone took 10% of what they paid for high-end proprietary software and donated that to open source alternatives, it would be a very short time before the open-source alternative was as or more capable than their proprietary counterparts.
Alan Langford
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OSS Powers Everything
From smart switches to high-end servers, open-source software now plays a significant role in just about every device with a CPU. The availability of freely usable and adaptable open-source code has accelerated the rate of development and innovation in everything from the Internet of Things through to cloud-based Artificial Intelligence.
Abivia has made code and/or financial contributions to several projects including the Joomla CMS, Laravel, LibreOffice, the PHP Foundation, and several others. We also develop and maintain our own projects. Some of our featured work is listed below.
The FOSS Blog: learn more about our open source work and keep up with the latest developments with our FOSS Blog.
Hydration
Abivia Hydration is a PHP package that simplifies the process of reading user-edited data files
and turning them into application data structures. More details are available at the
Hydration
Documentation site.
Ledger
Ledger lets you track anything related to money in your application with a
single package while making your CFO happy at the same time. No matter if
your app is handling memberships for a small club or supporting a multinational
enterprise, Ledger can handle it.
Abivia Ledger implements the core of a double-entry accounting system in a Laravel package. Ledger supports multiple languages, currencies, organizational units, and journals. Other key features include a JSON API, full audit logs, the ability to connect transactions to external objects, and Charts of Accounts presets.
Ledger is MIT Licensed and available on GitHub. Full details are available at the Ledger Documentation site.
Cogs
Cogs is a suite of interfaces for common objects, primarily used in (but not limited to)
business and ecommerce. The interfaces have been heavily influenced by OASIS recommendations.
The intent is to achieve some level of interoperability between applications by having them
conform to these interfaces.
Cogs is MIT Licensed and available on GitHub.
Geocoding
The Abivia geocoding library provides a caching interface to IP address lookup APIs provided by
ipinfo.io and ipstack.com. The library supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and is designed to
seamlessly support other IP address geocoding services.
Ledger is MIT Licensed and available on GitHub.
NextForm
Abivia NextForm is a JSON-based form handler. Available as both an independent package and
as a Laravel component, NextForm simplifies the creation of forms in an enterprise environment
where multiple user groups use similar forms based on a common set of data elements.
Basic Documentation is currently available in the
source code repository. A more comprehensive documentation site is in development.
Support for Other Open Source Projects
Not only are we creators of open systems, Abivia actively supports other open source projects with small recurring donations and other contributions. We're a sponsor of the PHP Foundation via Open Collective, contribute to projects through Liberapay, and have donated or contributed to other projects including Joomla and Libre Office.
If you're interested in supporting our open source work, we also accept
donations of any amount through Liberapay.
