Group: Free software at workplace

Let's work together to get companies and organizations to adopt free software at the workplace. Here are some ways you can contribute to this wiki page and group:

• If you come across any stories or examples in which a company or organization is adopting, debating, or even just discussing free software, please add whatever information you can to this page.
• Share any appeal letters or text you have written to your employer, union, or coworkers to inspire others to do the same.
• Share links and info about any other mailing lists or groups involved in promoting free software at the workplace.

Libre programs for organizations

• Promote your organization in the Fediverse with Mastodon and PeerTube;
  

• Use a free browser like GNU IceCat;
  

• Don’t force your employees to use Zoom or MS Teams: offer them BigBlueButton, GNU Jami, a Galene server, or a Jitsi Meet instance;
  

• Let employees use a freedom-respecting chat software, like Pidgin, [GNU Jami][25], Matrix, or Silence instead of Slack or Teams;
  

• Replace Microsoft Office with LibreOffice or Calligra, which also come with the benefit that you can safe files in the OpenDocument format;
• For a Voice over IP or Internet phone, we recommend Linphone;
  

• Replace the proprietary Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software you use with CiviCRM;
  

• Do you also need an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system? Try Kivitendo, which combines CRM and ERP;
  

• Instead of Microsoft 365, host Nextcloud on your server or use a collaboration tool like Ksuite;
  

• Track external and internal requests with Request Tracker; and finally
  

• Make the switch from Microsoft or MacOS to GNU/Linux.

While the above are great for a wide variety of organizations, we also want to give a handful of examples of free software that is popular among companies specialized in science and engineering:

• OpenFOAM, a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) toolbox;
  

• FreeCAD, Computer Aided Drawing based on OpenCasCade, Qt and Python;
• Openscad, a script file based graphical CAD environment;
• GNU Octave, a high-level interpreted language that is specialized for numerical computations; and
• Scilab, a powerful computing environment for numerical computation.

For organizations that need freedom-respecting software for publishing, advertisement, video creation, and image editing, consider trying some of these:

• Scribus, a professional page layout program that generates press-ready magazines, leaflets, and posters;
  

• Blender, a powerful 3D creation suite, which was used to create “Flow,” the movie which won the 2025 Oscar for the best animated film;
• KDEnlive, a video editor with dual video monitors, a multi-track timeline, clip organization, efficient media ingestion, and a professional-level editing experience;
  

• Inkscape, a popular vector graphics editor;
  

• GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program; and
  

• Krita, A cross-platform digital painting application.