How open source development provides a roadmap for digital trust, security, safety, and virtual work
Introduction During COVID-19, we’ve all seen our daily lives, and those of many of our colleagues, friends, and family around the world completely changed. Many are adjusting to working from home and homeschooling their children, or caring... Read More
Open Source Communities and Trademarks: A Reprise
Intellectual property and how it is shared have been the cornerstone of open source. Although it is more common to discuss “code” or “copyright,” there are other IP concerns around patents and trademarks that must be considered before... Read More
FinOps Will Drive Efficiency for DevOps
FinOps Foundation to Become Linux Foundation Effort Read More
Accelerating Open Standards development with Community Specifications
Introduction In an earlier post back in May, the Linux Foundation and Joint Development Foundation (JDF) announced its ability to propose international standards by being recognized as an ISO/IEC JTC1 PAS submitter and that it had... Read More
Linux Foundation interview with NASA Astronaut Christina Koch
Jason Perlow, Editorial Director at the Linux Foundation, had a chance to speak with NASA astronaut Christina Koch. This year, she completed a record-breaking 328 days at the International Space Station for the longest single spaceflight... Read More
Linux Foundation & Harvard Announce Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS) Contributor Survey
“Open source software is everywhere. Now, more than ever, we need to get a better understanding of it to help make it even more secure.” – David A. Wheeler, Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security, Linux Foundation In 2020, given the... Read More
Why CII best practices gold badges are important
“A CII Best Practices badge, especially a gold badge, shows that an OSS project has implemented a large number of good practices to keep the project sustainable, counter vulnerabilities from entering their software, and address... Read More
Building a sustainable open source community: training and certifications
Training and professional certifications are an important part of how open source technologies establish themselves as industry-leading solutions and adopted in commercial ecosystems Introduction In an earlier piece, we discussed how, over... Read More
Linux kernel earns CII best practices gold badge
All: I want to formally congratulate the Linux kernel project for earning a gold badge!! You can see their details here: Read More
Linux Foundation Support for the Black Community
The Linux Foundation and its communities stand in solidarity voicing support for the Black community. The system under which we operate requires change to make justice and equality a reality. We support the individuals and organizations... Read More
Building a successful open source community: How coordination and facilitation helps projects scale and mature
Why do you need program management as part of your open source project? We asked a few of the Linux Foundation’s program managers to tell us how they each approach the task. How does coordination and facilitation help improve my project?... Read More
Linux Foundation Newsletter: May 2020
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Joint Development Foundation recognized as an ISO/IEC JTC 1 PAS submitter and submits OpenChain for international review
In its role as an ISO PAS submitter, JDF and LF now can move from idea to code, to standard, to an internationally recognized standard, vastly improving the reach and availability of the technologies created by our amazing communities.... Read More
SPDX 2.2 Specification Released
The SPDX technical community is delighted to announce that the 2.2 version of the specification has been released! We started working on the first version of the SPDX specification 10 years ago, and it has continued to improve and evolve... Read More
TODOgroup.org: Participate in our 2020 Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Survey
In 2020, we want to learn from best practices in how companies create effective open source strategies, how their open source programs are structured, and how they measure success. The TODO Group is a set of companies that collaborate on... Read More
Linux Foundation Members Elect Open Source Technology Trailblazer
The Linux Foundation today announced that Sony’s Tim Bird has been elected to its board and that Panasonic’s Hiromi Wada has been re-elected for a two-year term. Read More
Virtual event suggestions for open source communities
Introduction With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting every aspect of life across every population and industry around the globe, numerous conferences, events, and meetings have been canceled or postponed. The Linux Foundation events team has... Read More
Linux Foundation Fosters Laminas Community
The Laminas Project, formerly known as the Zend Framework, is among the latest projects to be hosted at the Linux Foundation. With the community’s desire to evolve its PHP tooling for the next generation of web services and APIs, now is a... Read More
Update from the LFX Development Team
The world runs on open source, and projects need more than a version or source control system to scale The Linux Foundation has evolved a proven methodology to transform projects into category leaders. LFX operationalizes this approach,... Read More
FINOS Joins the Linux Foundation
Introduction This week we are excited to announce that FINOS, the Fintech Open Source Foundation, is joining our Linux Foundation community of projects. With critical financial services projects under its stewardship, FINOS has become the... Read More
The Security of the Open Source Software Digital Supply Chain: Lessons Learned and Tools for Remediation
Introduction It has been estimated that Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) constitutes 70-90% of any given piece of modern software solutions. FOSS is an increasingly vital resource in nearly all industries, in the public and private... Read More
The TARS Foundation: The Formation of a Microservices Ecosystem
Introduction During the 1960s and 1970’s, software developers typically used monolithic architectures on mainframes and minicomputers for software development, and no single application was able to satisfy the needs of most end-users.... Read More
How Contributing to Diversity in Technology Made Me a Better Engineer
Because my family couldn’t afford tuition, I couldn’t pursue my true interest Computer Science and, instead, studied Metallurgical Engineering — a field that I had absolutely no interest in. Read More