The FLOSSWorld project aims “to strengthen Europe’s leadership in FLOSS and open standards research, building a global constituency with partners from Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, India, Malaysia and South Africa.” Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS), states the site, “is arguably one of the best examples of open, collaborative, internationally distributed production and development that exists today, resulting in tremendous interest from around the world, from government, policy, business, academic research and developer communities.” This 3-year project, funded by the European Commission, was launched on May 1, 2005.