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Less than two months into its launch, on the stage of ONE Summit in Seattle, LF Europe announced its first hosted project, Sylva, which brings together leading telcos and vendors (Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Nokia, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, and Vodafone) to accelerate cloudification of the network within EU privacy and security guidelines.
Sylva is designed to create a new, open source production-grade telco cloud stack within Europe. Sylva’s common cloud software framework and adjacent reference implementation will reduce fragmentation of the cloud infrastructure layer for telecommunication and edge services and build on top of existing open source projects to provide implementations and extensions.
Specific goals of the Sylva project include:
Learn more about Sylva at https://gitlab.com/sylva-projects/sylva.
LF Networking GM Arpit Joshipura at ONE Summit Seattle 2022
In addition to Sylva, the Linux Foundation and LF Networking announced an expanding industry evolution that would affect every layer of the networking stack at ONE Summit.
During his opening keynote, LF Networking GM Arpit Joshipura touched on how much the ecosystem has grown and improved since open source was first introduced. He stated that the industry has now passed the point of no return for digital transformation enabled by open source.
“Leading organizations are using our project code — which continues to evolve and mature — in real-world deployments to scale. The community’s collaborative work across the ecosystem is humbling and impressive; we can’t wait to see what’s next.”
Additional announcements during the event include: Amazon’s deployment of DentOS within third-party retail stores via its Just Walk Out Technology; upcoming ONAP release of ONAP Kohn, named in honor of the late Dan Kohn with new Network Slicking with RAN and other features; new LF Networking Platinum member Infosys; new LF Edge Premiere member Emerson; and new SONiC Premier member Marvell.
If you weren’t able to attend ONE Summit, visit our YouTube channel to view over 100 videos from the sessions and keynotes, including member and sponsor presentations by AT&T, Dell Technologies, DARPA, TELUS, Red Hat, Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, Kyndryl, IBM, Cisco, Amazon, and so many more.
LF Executive Director Jim Zemlin during his keynote at Member Summit 2022
Earlier in November, we had the chance to spend time with many of our members and their leadership and teams at the LF Member Summit. It was encouraging. We gathered in Lake Tahoe committed to strengthening open source communities, improving the state of software supply chains, and building open source program offices (OSPOs).
Our keynote video on YouTube features the great presentations led by our esteemed guests:
Code Genome: Fingerprinting Code to Help Secure the Software Supply Chain - J.R. Rao, IBM Fellow and CTO, Security Research & Jeff Borek, WW Program Director, Open Technology & Developer Advocacy, Digital Business Group, IBM
Open Source Supply Chain Threat Landscape, A Moving Target - Brian Fox, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, Sonatype
MRI: The Picture of a Strong Foundation - Anne Bertucio, Senior Program Manager and Team Lead, Open Source Program Development, Google
The Role of Institutions in Open Source - Nithya Ruff, Head of the Open Source Program Office, Amazon; Governing Board Chair, The Linux Foundation
Boeing Launches OSPO: Lessons Learned - Damani Corbin, Strategy & Ecosystem Growth Lead, Boeing
Bringing Together Open Source and Open Science: Policy and Implementation - Roberto Di Cosmo, Founder and Director of Software Heritage; Chair, Software Chapter of the French National Committee for Open Science
Adopting a Safe by Design Philosophy - Bob Lord, Senior Technical Advisor, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Navigating a World in Flux - April Rinne, Author of Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change
Corporate participation in open source has reached an all-time high and continues to grow as companies realize the value of consuming and contributing to open source projects. Part of the contribution that organizations make is open sourcing internal technology. This important contribution involves far more than just making the source code available.
This report is a vital resource for companies that plan to open source internal code as a standalone open source project, offering an overview of the process and identifying the critical elements that ensure the necessary tasks are properly captured and executed.
Read the full report by Ibrahim Haddad, Ph.D., Executive Director, LF AI & Data and Pytorch Foundation, Releasing Internal Code into a New Open Source Project: A Guide for Stakeholders
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LF community attendees at Open Source Summit Europe 2022
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