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COSF is an acronym for the CGI Open Source Federation which is an experimental community meant to model a new system of Open Source development called OSF's (Open Source Federation).  To find more on OSF's, click here.

We always welcome new members and projects to help COSF's main goal: Improve the Open Source CGI community by producing quality scripts and give more experience to our coders while avoiding duplication of effort.  We will produce and maintain useful CGI scripts to be used by anyone, however, COSF is not for everyone, the federation will produce open source scripts under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL), and we allow our developers to commit to the repository without having to ask the lead developer, this will not create much of a problem because any previous commits can be easily restored.  If you just want to accomplish something new than we welcome you to join us.

The scripts we produce are any that our members have strong interests in, a forum which we call "The Table" is where all petitions are thoroughly discussed and evaluated by other COSF members.  A developer may place a petition regarding:

1. A project/idea of a COSF member which they may have been developing prior or after joining COSF
2. Take up an abandoned/dead project from https://sourceforge.net or other places on the net.
3. Fork/Join/Merge a current project that is already developed on SourceForge by a non-affiliated group. We will message the admins of the desired group and decide what to do from their input.

The lead developers (who are decided by the project group) will then start a SF project, and setup all Source Forge's tools except CVS to help them collaborate on their projects.  All the development work is done in the COSF CVS repository which allows other COSF developers add what they can without hassling anyone, upon approval he will have access to every script in the repository. During the production we will track changes using syncmail, it is suggested that you join the associated mailing list.

(GNU - <body, project> /g*noo/ 1. A recursive acronym: "GNU's Not Unix!". The Free Software Foundation's project to provide a freely distributable replacement for Unix. The GNU Manifesto was published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal but the GNU project started a year and a half earlier when Richard Stallman was trying to get funding to work on his freely distributable editor, Emacs. )
Above reference from Dictionary.com.