What's mean Fridu ? 

Fridu is the composition of two Breton worlds "Fri" for "nose" and "Du" for black. Fridu which translates in "BlackNose" is a typical name for a dog, as many Breton's dogs have a black nose, it's quite a common name.

Who's dog is then Fridu ?

Fridu was my daughter's teddy dog. Fridu disappeared more than 10 years ago when she was still a nice little girl. While my daughter has some suspicion on who the criminal could be, nothing has never been proven.

What was Fridu Yesterday ?

Fridu was use for a SOHO consulting company that was established in 1996 to promote open source solutions in IT and Telecom industry. As today the two main contributors have full time jobs, Fridu is currently 100% focusing on non profits activities.

What is Fridu Today ? 

Technically Fridu is nothing more than a small Linux computer sitting somewhere on Internet. Obviously the two founders while working full time for IT companies still need a toy to play with new technologies. We use Fridu to publish open source stuff that might be useful to the community, as well as a mail-mta, web-server, sip-proxy, hosting facility for some non profit organizations as some Diwan schools, KEAV.org, PortAnna.org, ... 

Fridu origin:

• Fridu.com was started in 1996 by Fulup Ar Foll (Philippe Le Foll). At that time he was associate professor at the university of South Brittany in computer science and independant consultant. He launched the site fridu.com to publish his object version of the tcl/tk language named jtcl, and other related open source based project as jWrap mostly based around embedded distributed testing facilities for telecommunications.
• Fridu.org was launched in May 2006 by Dominique Le Foll (Dominig Ar Foll) and target to keep publication of selected open source projects in the same spirit as the original fridu.com, but also to help some non profit organization to leverage new free Internet technologies as SIP, VPN, CMS, AntiSpam, ....

• fridu.org & fridu.net are use for non profit activities only.
• fridu.com & fridu.eu are dormant, but reserved for further hypothetical commercial consulting activities.
• fridu.co.uk is Dominique Le Foll (Dominig) personal domain.