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    Linux Foundation Newsletter: June 2025

    The Linux Foundation | 11 June 2025

    Welcome to the June 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter. The past month has seen major announcements, launches and even a major award win for the LF. Here are the headlines:

    🚨 Global Recognition for LF Legal
    Our legal team earned top honors from World Trademark Review, named the world’s leading nonprofit trademark legal team. While often behind the scenes, this team plays a critical role in protecting the brand integrity of over 1,000 open source projects—work that enables trust and continuity across the global open source ecosystem.

    📊 Harvard Professor Joins the LF to Expand Open Source Impact Research
    Frank Nagle, Harvard Business School professor and renowned open source researcher, has joined the Linux Foundation as Advising Chief Economist. Nagle’s groundbreaking work on the global economic value of open source software revealed a software equivalent of nearly $9 trillion—and he’ll now deepen that research from within the LF.

    🤖 New Report: Economic and Workforce Impacts of Open Source AI
    LF Research and Meta released a new report unpacking how open source AI is shaping the economy and workforce. Featured in Axios and TechRepublic, the report provides a clear-eyed look at what’s driving open innovation in AI—and who’s hiring for it.

    🛡️ Closing the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
    LF Education and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) launched the Cybersecurity Skills Framework—a first-of-its-kind tool helping organizations around the world align security competencies across IT and non-IT roles alike. SiliconANGLE covered how this framework offers much-needed clarity as cyber threats grow in scale and complexity.

    🌐 OpenInfra Joins the Linux Foundation Family
    The Open Infrastructure Foundation has officially merged with the LF, bringing its projects and vibrant community under our umbrella. OpenInfra Executive Director Jonathan Bryce shared a message about what’s next—and why this new chapter is a win for open cloud infrastructure.

    🚀 What’s Ahead
    From project milestones to upcoming events and education opportunities, there’s even more to explore this month. Read on.

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    LF Event Spotlight

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    We’re just under two weeks away from Open Source Summit North America, happening June 23–25 in Denver!  Secure your spot for hundreds of interactive experiences, engaging talks, and networking opportunities you simply can’t get anywhere else.

    Observability Community: Join us June 26 in Denver for OpenObservabilitySummit + OTel Community Day! Connect, collaborate, and explore the future of open source observability. Register now + view the schedule.

     

    LF Europe: Community Updates

    LF EU Roadshow Milan 2025 Register Stamp

    On July 8th in Milan, LF Europe is launching its inaugural Roadshow, an event that brings together European and international stakeholders on highly topics relevant topics for Europe. The first roadshow will focus on vertical collaborations, particularly open source in finance, as well as feature a broader open source Europe focused track. Our Executive Director Daniel will be on stages joining a lineup with confirmed speakers from Morgan Stanley, Citi, FINOS, RISC-V and more!

    Seats are limited, register now!


    LF Research: A new survey + publication

    Do you work in financial services? We want to hear from you!

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    LF Research is partnering with FINOS, Scott Logic, and GitHub in our yearly survey on open source trends in the financial services sector. What insights will this year’s survey reveal for the sector? Share your perspective, shape our research, and get a discount on the Open Source in Finance Forum in London or New York! 

     

    New publication: The Economic and Workforce Impacts of Open Source AI

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    LF Research’s latest report finds that open source AI (OSAI) is widely adopted, cost effective, highly performing, and leads to faster and higher-quality development of the AI tools and models. In a study commissioned by Meta, LF Research conducted a comprehensive analysis of academic, industry, and LF research to determine existing evidence on the economic and workforce impacts of OSAI. Download the report to read the complete findings!

     

    Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news

    54538479261_07898b1225_oFrom left to right: Frank Nagle, LF Advising Chief Economist; Diana Doukas, Head of Economic Opoprtunity & Advocacy, Meta; Alex Swartzel, AVP Jobs for the Future Labs, Anna Hermansen & Hilary Carter, LF Research.

    Academy Software Foundation (ASWF)

    • The ASWF’s Open Source Days 2025 will take place on August 10 in-person in Vancouver and virtually. The annual event brings together 250+ software engineers from across the motion picture industry.
       
    • Learn about the open source tools used to make Moana 2 on the ASWF blog.

    Aether

    • Recent News
      • Journey of NgKore and Aether SD-Core. Check out this exciting blog by NgKore, an open source research community focused on pushing the boundaries of 5G and 6G technology, who evaluated and selected Aether SD-Core as the foundation for their research. We are pleased to have them as collaborators and contributors in our Aether Project community! Also view a series of videos created by NgKore that documents technical demonstrations and walkthroughs using Aether SD-Core.
    • Past Events
      • The Future of RAN Summit. In case you missed the exciting panel discussion about the future of RAN, you can now view it on demand. The panel discussions included RAN security challenges, how open RAN has been deployed in telecom networks, latest developments for  both the real-time RIC and non-real time RIC, and more. Panelists included: Sarat Puthenpura, Aether Project; Robert Curran, Appledore Research; Warren Bayek, Wind River; and Javed Khan, Rakuten Symphony.

    Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)

    • In a new American Surveyor feature, Trimble’s Sean Snyders and Nathan Patton explain how OpenUSD’s interoperability underpins industry‑scale digital twins, from SketchUp’s new USDZ export to joint Trimble‑NVIDIA wind‑simulation workflows, while AOUSD working groups advance shared geometry and material standards. Read more. 

    Automotive Grade Linux (AGL)

    • AGL Summer All Member Meeting (AMM): July 9-10, Berlin. Our bi-annual meeting brings together the AGL community to learn about the latest developments, share best practices and collaborate around open source technologies for the automotive industry. Registration is complimentary for members. Register to join us. 

    CAMARA

    Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP)

    • CIP Now Supports Five SLTS Kernels.
      • The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) project has added support for its fifth super long-term support (SLTS) kernel series with the release of 6.12-cip, which will be maintained through 2035. With this, CIP now offers five SLTS kernels—4.4-cip, 4.19-cip, 5.10-cip, 6.1-cip, and 6.12-cip—providing long-term flexibility for users to plan major system updates. Read more.

    Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

    Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC)

    • CCC significantly increased its footprint at the RSA Conference this year with a booth twice the size of previous years. This larger space allowed us to feature more member projects and showcase cutting-edge confidential computing technologies to thousands of security professionals. Notable members like Intel, IBM, TikTok, and Fortanix engaged attendees with real-world use cases and demos.
    • CCC members participated in Linaro Connect in Lisbon, expanding conversations beyond security circles and into embedded systems and edge computing—underscoring the growing relevance of confidential computing across domains.
    • Join us  in the upcoming events: 

    Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF)

    • Join us for cdCon 2025 at Open Source Summit NA, June 23–25 in Denver, CO. It’s the perfect chance to collaborate with Continuous Delivery leaders, industry icons, practitioners, and open source developers. Together, we will improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. View cdCon schedule
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    DAOS Foundation

    • Upcoming Events
      • DAOS Tutorial at ISC 2025 - June 13th | 2-6pm CEST. A tutorial, “Object Storage for High Performance I/O” will be led by Adrian Jackson, EPCC and Johann Lombardi, HPE. Attendees will learn about the design and usage of object storage technology, as alternatives to filesystems, and using the Ceph and DAOS object stores as examples. The tutorial offers both hands-on exercise and presentations to give those who attend first hand experience in using and programming for object storage technology.
      • Flash Memory Summit 2025 - August 7th | 1:25 - 2:30pm Pacific. Johann Lombardi, DAOS TSC Chair, will be participating on a panel discussion, “High-Performance Storage for the Data Center” at this event. In this session they will discuss innovative approaches and technologies shaping the future of data storage and management. 
    • Past Event
      • Virtual DAOS User Group (DUG) ‘25. The DAOS User Group featured updates from the DAOS development team, partner offerings and development activities, and insights from end customers who shared their DAOS experiences. It included presentations from Intel, Enaka, Google, HPE, ORNL, and Argonne National Laboratory. View videos and slides now on-demand. 

    DENT

    • DENT-funded contributions to the Linux kernel are helping bring robust Power over Ethernet (PoE) support upstream. At OSS Summit North America, Kyle Swenson (Ericsson) will present, “Extending Power Over Ethernet to the LTC4266”, covering the PoE framework, user-space control interface, and driver specifics for the LTC4266, rounding out upstream support for major enterprise PoE controllers.

    Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project

    • In this ELISA Seminar video, Pete Brink of UL Solutions presents a concise, adaptable framework for evaluating open source documentation with safety and trustworthiness in mind. This video highlights how robust documentation underpins Linux-based safety-critical systems. Watch here.
    • Paul Albertella summarizes workshops in Lund where Eclipse SDV and ELISA experts ranging from BMW to Arduino discussed integrating safety into open source projects using frameworks like TSF, minimal Linux configurations, and SBOM-driven traceability. Check out this blog to learn the growing collaboration among ELISA, Eclipse, and Linux communities to build trust and transparency in safety-critical development.

    FinOps Foundation

    FINOS 

    • We’re excited to welcome Microsoft as the first cloud provider on the FINOS Governing Board, joining GitHub in elevating their commitment to Platinum Membership. Together, they’re playing a key role in advancing FINOS’ AI Governance Framework and Common Cloud Controls (CCC). Read more here.
    • The FINOS Project Landscape v2 is live offering better structure, flexibility, and community-driven maintenance as our ecosystem grows. View the Project Landscape and join an upcoming project meeting.
    • The LF Europe Roadshow schedule is live! Join us in Milan on the 8th of July for the Finance Track, covering FDC3, CDM, AI governance, and more. Register here.

    Global Synchronizer Foundation

    • We’re proud to welcome Melvis Langyintuo as the new Executive Director of the Global Synchronizer Foundation.
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      • Melvis brings a rare blend of institutional finance and crypto-native experience, having held leadership roles at OKX, JPMorgan, and Goldman Sachs. He’s stepping into this role at a pivotal time as GSF deepens its support for the Canton Network, driving adoption of the Global Synchronizer and advancing our mission of open, privacy-preserving interoperability.
      • His leadership will help guide the next chapter of ecosystem growth, governance, and collaboration.

    High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)

    • The inaugural High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) Conference 2025 brought together developers, researchers, and industry leaders committed to building the future of performance-portable, community-driven HPC software. Held in Chicago, the four-day event offered updates from HPSF projects, insights on processor and system trends, active discussions around the future of interoperability, and collaborative working group sessions that set the stage for the year ahead. Couldn’t join us in person? Check out our recap blog: HPSF Conference 2025 Recap: Building the Future of High Performance Software, where you can also find links to all the session recordings available on the new HPSF-Community YouTube Channel.
    • From June 10-13 HPSF is at ISC 2025 in Hamburg,Germany. HPSF is participating in ISC 2025 with a series of sessions designed to foster collaboration and share insights into cutting-edge HPC tools and practices including an HPSF Birds of a Feather (BoF) session where we’ll discuss shared interests and challenges within the HPC community. Come say hi at booth G52 on the exhibition floor to chat with our community members and catch some demos on our projects. Read our blog - HPSF Heads to Hamburg for ISC 2025 - for more details on HPSF's participation and to stay updated on session schedules.

    LF AI & Data

    • Matt White of PyTorch posted a blog on the Open MDW, OpenMDW,  short for Open Model, Data and Weights License, which  was born out of the effort to implement LF AI & Data’s Model Openness Framework (MOF).It’s a new permissive AI model license from the Linux Foundation designed for clarity, flexibility, and commercial use. 
    • Join the LF AI & Data community at upcoming global + virtual events:
      • The Japan Regional User Group (RUG) will host a meet-up in Kawasaki on June 20. Learn more and RSVP today to secure your spot. 
      • Discover the latest in open source AI at the LF AI & Data Mini Summit, co-located with Open Source Summit North America on June 26 in Denver. Hear from leaders across OPEA, GenAI Commons, and more—add it to your OSS NA registration here.
      • Join us at AI_dev Europe (Aug 28–29 in Amsterdam) to dive into the latest in open source GenAI and ML with hands-on sessions, tools, and real-world use cases. Don’t miss early bird pricing—register by June 9.
    • The Open Voice Interoperability Initiative has released Open Floor 1.0, enabling real-time, cross-platform collaboration between AI assistants. Learn how this new standard supports multi-agent teamwork in shared conversations in the latest blog post.
    • Discover how diversity and open source are shaping the future of GPU programming in this insightful blog by Intel’s Anat Heilper. Read the full post on the LF AI & Data community blog here.

    LF Broadband 

    • LF Broadband vOLTHA TST Chair Abhilash Laxmeshwar will present a session on “Scaling vOLTHA: Performance and Resource Efficiency Improvements” on June 26 at the Broadband Forum’s BASe Technical Summit in Munich.

    LF Connectivity

    • After 2 years and 8 months of collaboration, this release brings major stability improvements, extended 5G support, and better observability.
      • Huge thanks to our contributors and community!
      • Read more.

    LF Decentralized Trust

    • LF Decentralized Trust announced six new members, the launch of the Besu Certified Service Provider (CSP) program, and a number of new CSPs.
    • This post introduces the newest LF Decentralized Trust project, Smoot, a modular, standards-based framework for bridging networks and applications across chains.
    • A new addition to the LF Decentralized Trust case study library details how Infosys uses Hyperledger Indy, an LF Decentralized Trust project, together with the Open Wallet Foundation’s ACA-Py to boost efficiency, security, and privacy of credential verification. 
    • During Dutch Blockchain week, LF Decentralized Trust's Sean Bohan talked with Bitcoin Magazine NL about the role of open source software and many of the foundation's projects are playing in the deployment of new digital identity and asset platforms.
    • Cointelegraph, Ledger Insights, and Pymnts were among the media reporting on the results of Project Pine, a toolkit of smart contracts built by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and BIS Innovation Hub atop LF Decentralized Trust's Besu to execute monetary policy in a fully tokenized financial system.
    • An expert commentary piece in the Himalayan Times, CBDCs and the future of money: A global shift towards sovereign digital currency, delves into the drivers for Central Bank Digital Currencies and the prototype the Nepal Rastra Bank is developing using Hyperledger Fabric, an LF Decentralized Trust project.
    • An article in Observatorio Blockchain deep dives into how Besu is leading a key transformation in Ethereum by implementing stateless nodes and technologies.
    • For more updates from LF Decentralized Trust, check out the current and past issues of Decentralized Digest.

    LF Edge

    • Akraino Release 8 is now available, featuring new blueprints that bring Physical AI to the edge. Highlights include advancements in human-robot interaction, speech recognition, and predictive maintenance for hardware.
    • Learn how EdgeLake is helping telcos unlock the full potential of 5G by enabling real-time data services directly at the edge. Watch the full webinar recording, including a live smart city demo.
    • Missed Open Networking & Edge Summit? All session recordings and slides are now available on-demand, including featured LF Edge talks on Edge AI, real-world deployments, and cloud-native innovation. Watch standout sessions from ZEDEDA, Vodafone, STL Partners, and more here.
    • Learn how WINNIIO leveraged LF Edge’s EdgeLake to build a smart, self-learning heating system for the city of Växjö—boosting energy efficiency, enabling real-time insights, and setting the stage for federated learning at the edge. Read the full case study to see edge innovation in practice.

    LF Energy

    • LF Energy Summit Europe comes to Aachen, Germany September 10-11. This summit will gather the LF Energy community including electric utilities, technology vendors, global energy companies, researchers, and other industry stakeholders to learn about LF Energy and its projects, collaborate, and share best practices. Registration is discounted by 50% through July 6, and the agenda will be announced on June 17.
    • LF Energy Summit will also take place for the first time in North America, on October 3 in Montreal. Registration is now open.
    • LF Energy Ambassador and Governing Board Member Christophe Villemer of Savoir-faire Linux will present a talk titled “LF Energy SEAPATH : Building an Open Source Ecosystem for the Energy Industry” on June 23 at 5:45pm in Bluebird Ballroom 3C at Open Source Summit North America.
    • The LF Energy community will present three sessions at the “Increasing Real-Time and Day-Ahead Market and Planning Efficiency Through Improved Software” event hosted by FERC July 8-10.
    • Grid2Op, an open source research and development platform focused on the operation of power grids, has been contributed to LF Energy by RTE.
    • LF Energy Power Grid Model v1.11.x adds support for asymmetric lines and improved power flow calculations. The project has also introduced interactive grid visualizations in Power-Grid-Model-DS.
    • LF Energy OperatorFabric v4.7.0 adds the ability to define custom screens.

    LF Networking

    • Explore how AI is transforming wireless networks through a customer satisfaction-driven approach in a new blog by LFN community member Fatih E. Nar (Red Hat) and LFN CTO, Ranny Haiby. Learn how the LFN project Essedum specifically supports this vision with a modular, open framework for building scalable and trustworthy AI applications in telecom.
    • Paraglider v0.1.0 is here! The newest LFN project makes multi-cloud networking easier with a unified control plane and high-level connectivity abstractions. Read the full blog to learn what’s new and how to get involved: Announcing Paraglider 0.1.0.
    • CNTi (Cloud Native Telco Initiative) has released Test Suite v1.4.2, which introduces two new cloud native tests focused on Kubernetes sustainability and security. Read the full blog to learn how this update supports more reliable, compliant telecom deployments. 
    • Missed ONAP DT&F DAYs 2025? Catch up on the latest innovations in AI-driven architecture, GitOps-based deployments, secure CI/CD, and more with the full session recordings now available. Watch the highlights from this virtual two-day event here.
    • Watch the latest LFN webinar, "Beyond Connectivity: How Telcos Become Edge Data Providers," to explore how the 5G Super Blueprint and LF Edge’s EdgeLake project are enabling real-time intelligence and data services at the edge. Featuring a smart city demo and expert insights, the full recording is now available here.
    • AI is reshaping the future of networking, and open source is leading the charge. Dive into a rcent blog post to see how organizations are leveraging open tools, data, and frameworks like Essedum and Salus to build intelligent, future-ready networks.
    • Missed Open Networking & Edge Summit, or want to revisit your favorite presentation? All session recordings and slides are now available on-demand. Revisit keynotes, deep dives, and discussions on open networking, edge, and cloud-native tech.

    Margo

    • Tricloud, a Danish technology company specializing in Industrial IoT (IIoT), Unified Namespace (UNS), and AI/ML integration, has officially joined the Margo open source initiative under the Linux Foundation. As a contributor, Tricloud will support the development of open standards to streamline device orchestration and enable scalable digital transformation across manufacturing and critical infrastructure. Read more.

    OpenInfra 

    • Last week, the OpenInfra Foundation officially joined the Linux Foundation! We are very excited to take this major step toward unifying global open source infrastructure efforts. Please take this opportunity to learn more about OpenInfra projects and how you can get involved in these open source infrastructure communities: OpenStack, Kata Containers, StarlingX, and Zuul. 
    • We are thrilled to announce the newest OpenInfra Platinum Member, Cachengo! Cachengo will work closely with the global OpenInfra community to accelerate the adoption of open source infrastructure technologies for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and edge-native applications.
    • The OpenInfra Summit Europe will take place at École Polytechnique Campus in Paris-Saclay, France, on 17-19 October 2025! This event will bring together OpenInfra community members from across the region to collaborate, learn, and drive innovation in open source infrastructure. June 13 is both the CFP and sponsorship deadline.
    • The global OpenInfra community has a number of upcoming OpenInfra Days including the OpenInfra Days Asia Roadshow that will take place in Indonesia, South Korea, China, Vietnam and Japan! Additionally, the first ever OpenInfra Days Kenya is currently being planned for September!
    • Since Broadcom’s VMware acquisition in 2023, the global market for virtualization alternatives has exploded and OpenStack has emerged as a significant player. In response to this trend, OpenInfra Member organizations collaborated to develop a comprehensive VMware to OpenStack Migration Guide that will be published here next week.

    OpenSearch 

    • News 
      • OpenSearch 3.0 introduces GPU acceleration for index builds, delivering significant performance progress. It offers up to 9.5x better performance, GPU acceleration for faster indexing and lower costs, and modern upgrades like Lucene 10, Java 21, and gRPC support. Purpose-built for scale, OpenSearch 3.0 enhances data flow control and workload performance while staying true to its open, scalable roots.
      • OpenSearch now supports separate indexing & search workloads, leading to significant performance gains and cost savings. Key benefits include parallel processing, independent scaling, better failure resilience, and hardware optimization. A new "search-only" mode enables additional efficiency, with benchmarks showing up to 34% lower query latency and 8% reduced costs.
      • OpenObservability Talks kicked off its sixth season to discuss OpenSearch 3.0. Host Dotan Horowitz was joined by Carl Meadows, Chair of the OpenSearch Software Foundation’s Governing Board, and Pallavi Priyadarshini, OpenSearch 3.0 release manager and Technical Steering Committee member, to dive into what’s new and answer audience questions during the live stream. The session provided insights into the latest updates from the project.
    • Upcoming Events
      • OpenSearchCon North America (San Jose, CA, USA)  - September 8-10, 2025. Join our OpenSearch community for a multi-day conference packed with technical sessions, OpenSearch 3.0 insights, and networking opportunities.
      • OpenSearchCon, Korea (South Korea) November 4, 2025. Join us in the Asia-Pacific region for a one-day deep dive into OpenSearch and its real-life use cases.

    Open 3D Foundation

    • O3DE 25.05.0 Release just around the corner. The last release had about 300 contributors - guess how many contributors there are for 25.05.0. 
    • Join the Open 3D Foundation community on July 9 at 8 am PT for a webinar titled,”Exploring the O3DE 25.05.0 Release.” O3DE SIG leaders will be discussing the new features and improvements in the new release, which is scheduled to go live later this month, including performance enhancements, mobile rendering, support for robotics and simulation use cases, and more. Register here.
    • In the May Open 3D Connect meeting, Guillaume Haerinck, Tools Engineer at Cloud Imperium Games, presented on profiling and reporting in O3DE, highlighting the current capabilities. Watch the video. 

    Open Mainframe Project

    • Open Mainframe Project is welcomes 13 mentees for the Summer Mentorship Program!  After reviewing more than 800 applications, mentors selected developers and students with diverse backgrounds from Canada, Egyt, India and the United Kingdom. Learn more about the COBOL Programming Course, COBOL Working Group, Feilong, Galasa, Mainframe, Open Education, Modernization Working Group, zopen Community, and Zowe mentorships. 
    • Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe 3.2 introduces a wave of improvements, refinements, and foundational updates that aim to make enterprise development and operations smoother, more transparent, and easier to contribute to. Read the blog or watch the video.
    • The GS UK Region Conference is an annual event that continues to serve as a cornerstone for collaboration, learning, and advancing the future of enterprise computing. This year, the event will take place on Monday, November 3 to Thursday, November 6, 2025, at Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire. Open Mainframe Project will have a track for the second year in a row - submit your speaking proposals. Learn more about the event or watch last year's videos.
    • Meet some of the talented developers in the mainframe ecosystem:
      • Meet Sean Rooney, Sean Rooney, Client Services Technical Consultant – z/OS Mainframe AIOps & Automation at Broadcom and 2025 Open Mainframe Project ambassador in this Mainframe Open Education Student User Group video.
      • In this I am a Mainframer podcast, Richelle Anne Craw, Mainframe Software Engineer at Beta Systems, shares her inspiring journey. From her beginnings in the Philippines to her current role in Austria, Richelle offers unique insights into mainframe development, system programming, and the power of open-source communities like Zowe. She discusses her transition across roles, the importance of mentorship, and her vision for the future of mainframe technology. Watch the video.

    OpenPOWER Foundation 

    • OPF President attended the Saudi Arabia National Semiconductor Hub conference expanding OPF’s presence to drive adoption of the POWER architecture. OPF will be partnering with NSH to provide educational activities for potential semiconductor startups to leverage in developing next generation chips. 
    • The OPF is participating in both the COMMON EU and  PowerUP NA conferences, the largest gatherings of POWER focused users. Our TSC chair will be presenting an overview of the POWER platform and how to leverage its high performance for Linux workloads. 
    • Cartesian Theatre, an OPF member company, is showcasing its AI-first custom music search engine platform at VIVA Tech conference in Paris, France. They are selected as a top AI startup and will be highlighted throughout the conference show. 

    Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project

    • Learn how new OPI general member, VyOs Networks, is helping reshape the future of networking with open, programmable infrastructure, in this new member spotlight blog. 

    OpenJS Foundation

    • Node.js 24 is out now, packing a punch with the V8 13.6 engine, npm 11, a streamlined permission model, and the globally available URLPattern API.
    • OpenJS has welcomed cosmos.gl, a GPU-accelerated, browser-based graph visualization engine capable of rendering over a million nodes.
    • The OpenJS Foundation's March–April 2025 update is packed with security fixes, automation upgrades, and fresh policies. Node.js patched vulnerabilities across versions 18 through 24, addressed a CI security incident, and is reviving CVEs for unsupported versions to keep users informed.
    • The OpenJS Foundation is now officially a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), giving it the power to assign CVE IDs for security vulnerabilities in its hosted JavaScript.

    O-RAN SC

    • The O-RAN Software Community (SC) recently participated in the O-RAN ALLIANCE F2F Meeting in Fukuoka, Japan—an event uniting 320+ experts from 94 organizations worldwide. With full-day working sessions across 11 parallel streams, this face-to-face gathering accelerates collaboration across MNOs, vendors, academia, and government partners to define open, intelligent, and disaggregated RAN. Learn more.
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    Overture Maps Foundation

    • Overture 2025-05-21.0 is now live! This release features new data sources, improved coverage, and refinements across multiple themes—from Base to Buildings and Divisions. Notably, we’ve added PinMeTo as a new provider for Places data, helping enhance global coverage and accuracy. Read the release notes and get the open data. 
    • The 2nd annual Overture Member Summit in April brought together more than a hundred people from 30 member organizations in Charleston for three days of collaboration and progress. If you missed the fun - you can read the blog or watch the video.
    • Imagine your business information seamlessly integrated into maps and location services used by billions of people worldwide. This isn't a future vision; it's the reality Overture Maps is creating today, powered by collaborative, open data. Read more about how major platforms like Meta (across Facebook and Instagram maps), TomTom (in their Orbis Maps), and Esri (through their new ArcGIS Open Basemap) are already leveraging Overture’s datasets, demonstrating the immense reach available in this recent blog. 
    • Meet us at an upcoming event!
      • State of the Map US - June 19-21 in Boston, Massachusetts
        • Something You Might Not Know About Overture Maps: Join our ED Marc Prioleau for a discussion about how Overture is using and contributing back to OSM — and why its mission might not be what you expect.
          • Friday, June 20, 2025 | 4:15–4:30 PM | 📍BU - Metcalf Parallel Hall
        • OSM Data Validation – Moving from Daylight to Overture: Join Jennings Anderson to learn how Overture’s regular data releases now offer a reliable path to validated OSM data.
          • Saturday, June 21, 2025 | 11:45 AM–12:00 PM | 📍 BU – Auditorium
      • ​​Databricks Data + AI Summit
        • Curious about spatial analytics in Databricks? Join our webinar on June 25 to compare Data Lake vs Delta Lake for analyzing Overture Maps. We’ll cover how to manage large-scale spatial data, run real-time queries, and visualize results, all in Databricks. 
          • Wednesday, June 25 · 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
    • Overture in the news
      • Overture’s CTO Amy Rose is on Project Geospatial talking about open map data, interoperability of spatial data and what is going on at Overture. Watch the full interview.

    OpenSSF

    • OSS and the CRA: am I a Manufacturer or a Steward?
      • Mike Bursell, Co-chair of the OpenSSF Cyber Policy Working Group, explains that the EU Cyber Resilience Act distinguishes “manufacturers” (those selling software products) from “stewards” (entities providing ongoing support for open source projects), assigning lighter vulnerability-reporting duties to stewards. Not every project maintainer is a steward, only those formally ensuring a project’s viability. Read the full blog to see how these roles differ under the CRA.
    • Member Spotlight: Trail of Bits - Driving Open Source Security Through Standards, Prototypes, and Policy
      • Trail of Bits drives open source security through initiatives like PEP 740 for PyPI attestations and lifecycle metadata standards, and by prototyping an OpenSSF Scorecard dashboard. They also open source advanced security tools and contribute to projects like Sigstore and Homebrew provenance. Read the full Member Spotlight to see how they shape both policy and practice.
    • Podcast: Yoda, DEI, and the Jedi Council: A Conversation with Dr. Eden-Reneé Hayes
      • In this enlightening and entertaining episode of What’s in the SOSS, host Yesenia Yser sits down with DEI strategist, social psychologist, and Star Wars superfan Dr. Eden-Reneé Hayes. From her academic roots to her entrepreneurial journey, Dr. Hayes shares how diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) drive sustainable growth and how she found inspiration for her TED Talk in the wisdom of Yoda. Listen now.
    • Podcast: Cybersecurity Framework Launch
      • In this episode of What’s in the SOSS, host CRob interviews Clyde Seepersad from the LF Education Department. They discuss Clyde’s journey into open source, the role of LF Education in supporting the community, and the importance of cybersecurity education. They also share insights into the development of the Cybersecurity Skills Framework, emphasizing the need for continuous learning and community engagement in the tech industry. Listen now.
    • Meet the OpenSSF community members at these events!

    P4

    • News
      • Announcing P4 Projects Selected for 2025 Google Summer of Code (GSoC). The P4 Project is taking part in GSoC, a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. This year, we received an overwhelming number of applications from which 5 projects were selected.
      • Static Analysis Tools for Network-Device Stacks. This blog is based upon Fabian Ruffy’s PhD dissertation in which he explores using P4 as a foundation for building effective static analysis tools for verification of networking stacks. The tools developed from the research have been contributed back to the P4 community as open source projects, primarily integrated within the P4C repository and related projects.
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
      • P4 Developer Days - P4 on Silicom ThunderFjord SmartNIC. This webinar explores the capabilities of the ThunderFjord SmartNIC, highlighting how P4 enables dynamic packet processing directly on the hardware. They delve into the architecture of the SmartNIC, its role in enhancing network performance, and the benefits of using P4 to implement custom protocols, traffic management, and network offload functions. View video and slides.
      • P4 Developer Days - Pipeline-Aware Sub-Traversal Caching for Modern SmartNICs. This webinar demonstrated  use of the P4 language to prepare a training feature and an example of an inference engine using P4 as a feature extractor for the SYN-FLOOD attack detector. The P4, as a packet processing language, can be used to define the network traffic-based features for AI/ML processing. selection). View video and slides.

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    SONiC

    • The Call for Presentations is now open for the SONiC Mini Summit (Aug 28) and SONiC booth demos at Open Source Summit Europe (Aug 25–27) in Amsterdam. Submit your proposal by June 20 to share your work with the SONiC community and showcase real-world innovation in open networking.
    • Planning to speak or demo at the 2025 OCP Global Summit? The CFP for the SONiC Workshop and SONiC Booth is now open—submit your proposal by July 27!
    • Stay up to date on all upcoming SONiC events, workshops, and CFP deadlines by visiting our Events Page. Whether you're looking to attend, speak, or showcase a demo, this is your go-to resource for all things SONiC.

    TLA+

    • Exciting news from the TLA+ Foundation and NVIDIA!
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      • The GenAI-accelerated TLA+ Challenge is now live. Whether you're interested in AI-assisted spec synthesis, linters, visualizations, or invariant inference, this is your chance to push the boundaries of what's possible with TLA+ and LLMs.
      • 🏆 Prizes include an RTX 5090 and GitHub Copilot Pro+ subscriptions.
      • Submissions are due July 3, 2025—full details here.

    Ultra Ethernet Consortium

    • On June 11, The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) announced the release of UEC Specification 1.0, a comprehensive, Ethernet-based communication stack engineered to meet the demanding needs of modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. This release marks a critical step forward in redefining Ethernet for next-generation, data-intensive infrastructure. Read the press release. Read the whitepaper.

    UXL Foundation

    • ISC:  If you are in Hamburg, please join us at the Birds of a Feather session “Defining open standards programming for AI and HPC” on June 11th at 2:15 pm-3:15 pm at ISC. Steering Committee chair Rod Burns will be hosting the session with Hartwig Antz, who is involved in the Ginkgo linear algebra project, and Biagio Cosenza from the University of Salerno who is involved in development and research on large HPC systems. 
    • Sign up for The UXL Foundation Mini-Summit at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit on June 26 from 9 AM to 12:30 PM at the Colorado Convention Center, Denver.  The agenda is below and additional information can be found here. 
      • Agenda

    Title

    Speaker(s)

    Time

    Welcome to the UXL Foundation Mini-Summit

    UXL Foundation Steering Committee

    9:00-9:30

    How the UXL Foundation projects are powering AI

    Megan (Arm AI)

    Rod (Llama.cpp)

    9:30-10:00

    Get Started with the UXL Foundation projects - using and contributing

    Rod

    10:00-10:30

    Break

    		  

    10:30-11:00

    Developing Stable Open Source Releases

    Megan

    11:00:11:15

    Ensuring high performance for the UXL Foundation libraries

    Chris

    11:15-11:45

    Security challenges and how to help

    Roman Zhukov, Red Hat

    11:45-12:00

    UXL projects on Qualcomm hardware

    Manuj, Qualcomm

    12:00-12:15

    Community session

    Ask the audience/speakers

    		 12:15-12:30
    • We have a new SiPearl blog entitled “Optimized Math Operators for Arm contributed to oneMath” by  Etienne Renault and Augustin Degomme.  SiPearl recently joined the UXL Foundation so please check out their work.
    • The next UXL Foundation Special Interest Group meeting is the AI SIG on June 26 at 9 am Central Time with a topic of Advancements in oneDNN Graph API: New Features and Updates by Tao Lv from Intel.
    • We held the UXL Foundation Math SIG on May 28 and Eric Petit from Intel spoke on MLKAPS:  automated kernel hyperparameter selection;and  there were two open topics as well:  SYCL Buffer-USM interoperability – Maria Kraynyuk (Intel);   Arm CI support in oneMath – Rafal Bielski (Codeplay).  Please find the meeting notes from all the UXL Foundation SIGs on our GitHub repository, and view the meeting recordings through https://openprofile.dev/ or on our YouTube channel.
    • Join the mailing lists to receive invites and find out about upcoming UXL Foundation SIG meetings.

    Zephyr Project

    • Tracing Zephyr applications with Percepio View
      • Percepio View is a free tool that helps Zephyr developers visualize RTOS concepts like mutexes and system calls using Zephyr’s built-in TraceRecorder. In this blog, Dr. Johan Kraft shows how to capture “snapshot” traces via GDB, highlight blocking calls, and quickly diagnose multithreaded issues. Learn how Percepio View can give you deeper insight into your Zephyr applications.
    • Have you read the latest Zephyr Weekly Update “Video Killed the Radio Star”? It highlights two upcoming Tech Talks, Renesas RX support, new Video Framework updates, and how to use west patch. Plus, discover new boards, drivers, Devicetree improvements, and celebrate 73 first-time contributors!
    • Meet the Zephyr Project community at these events!

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