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Linux Foundation

January 08, 2023

The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit technology consortium founded in 2000 as a merger between Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group to standardize Linux, support its growth, and promote its commercial adoption. Additionally, it hosts and promotes the collaborative development of open source software projects.[2][3][4] It is a major force in promoting diversity and inclusion in both Linux and the wider open source software community.[5]

The Linux Foundation
Predecessor
Formation2000; 23 years ago (2000)
Type501(c)(6) organization
PurposeBuild sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and commercial adoption.
Location
Membership
1,000+ corporate members[1]
Key people
Key people
  • Linus Torvalds
  • Jim Zemlin
  • Mike Woster
  • Mike Dolan
  • Karen Copenhaver
  • Abby Kearns
  • Arpit Joshipura
  • Brian Behlendorf
  • Andy Updegrove
  • Angela Brown
  • Chris Aniszczyk
  • Heather Kirksey
  • Kate Stewart
  • Dan Cauchy
  • Noriaki Fukuyasu
  • Clyde Seepersad
  • Dan Kohn
  • Calista Redmond
  • Robin Ginn
  • Shubhra Kar
Employees
150
Websitewww.linuxfoundation.org
Jim Zemlin at the opening of the LinuxCon Europe 2014
Linus Torvalds at LinuxCon North America 2016

The foundation was launched in 2000, under the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and became the organization it is today when OSDL merged with the Free Standards Group (FSG). The Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and lead maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman. Furthermore, it is supported by members, such as AT&T, Cisco, Fujitsu, Google, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Meta,[6] Microsoft,[7] NEC, Oracle, Orange S.A., Qualcomm, Samsung,[8] Tencent, and VMware, as well as developers from around the world.

In recent years, the Linux Foundation has expanded its support programs through events, training and certification, as well as open source projects. Projects hosted at the Linux Foundation include the Linux kernel project, Kubernetes, Automotive Grade Linux, ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform), Hyperledger, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Cloud Foundry Foundation, Xen project, and many others.

Goals

The Linux Foundation is dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and commercial adoption. The foundation currently sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and lead maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, and aims to provide a neutral home where Linux kernel development can be protected and accelerated.[9]

The foundation also hosts collaborative events among the Linux technical community, software developers, industry, and end users to solve pressing issues facing Linux and open source.[10]

The Linux Foundation supports the Free software movement by offering technical information and education through its annual events, such as Open Source Leadership Summit, Linux Kernel Developers Summit and Open Source Summit.[11] A developer travel fund is available.[12]

Initiatives

Community Data License Agreement (CDLA)

See also: Open Database License

Introduced in October 2017,[13] the Community Data License Agreement (CDLA) is a legal framework for sharing data.[14] There are two initial CDLA licenses:

  • The CDLA-Sharing license was designed to embody the principles of copyleft in a data license. It puts terms in place to ensure that downstream recipients can use and modify that data, and are also required to share their changes to the data.
  • The CDLA-Permissive agreement is similar to permissive open source licenses in that the publisher of data allows anyone to use, modify and do what they want with the data with no obligations to share changes or modifications.

Linux.com

Further information: Linux.com

On March 3, 2009, the Linux Foundation announced that they would take over the management of Linux.com from its previous owners, SourceForge, Inc.[15]

The site was relaunched on May 13, 2009, shifting away from its previous incarnation as a news site to become a central source for Linux tutorials, information, software, documentation and answers across the server, desktop/netbook, mobile, and embedded areas. It also includes a directory of Linux software and hardware.[16]

Much like Linux itself, Linux.com plans to rely on the community to create and drive the content and conversation.

Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH)

In 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Linux Foundation announced the LFPH,[17] a program dedicated to advancing and supporting the virus contact tracing work led by Google and Apple and their Bluetooth notification systems. The LFPH is focusing its efforts on public health applications, including the effort's first initiative: a notification app intended for governments wanting to launch their privacy-focused exposure notification networks. As of today, LFPH hosts two contact-tracing apps.[18]

LF Climate Finance Foundation

In September 2020, The Linux Foundation announced the LF Climate Finance Foundation (LFCF), a new initiative "to encourage investment in AI-enhanced open source analytics to address climate change."[19] LFCF plans to build a platform that will utilize open-source open data to help the financial investment, NGO, and academia sectors to help better model companies’ exposure to climate change.[20] Allianz, Amazon, Microsoft, and S&P Global will be the initiative's founding members.[21]

LF Energy

Main article: LF Energy

LF Energy is an initiative launched by the Linux Foundation in 2018 to improve the power grid.[22][23]

Training and certification

Main article: Linux Foundation Linux Certification

The Linux Foundation Training Program features instructors and content from the leaders of the Linux developer and open source communities.[24]

Participants receive Linux training that is vendor-neutral and created with oversight from leaders of the Linux development community. The Linux Foundation's online and in-person training programs aim to deliver broad, foundational knowledge and networking opportunities.

In March 2014, the Linux Foundation and edX partnered to offer a free massive open online class titled Introduction to Linux.[25] This was the first in a series of ongoing free offerings from both organizations whose current catalogue of MOOCs include Intro to DevOps, Intro to Cloud Foundry and Cloud Native Software Architecture, Intro to Apache Hadoop, Intro to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies, and Intro to OpenStack.[26]

In December 2015, the Linux Foundation introduced a self-paced course designed to help prepare administrators for the OpenStack Foundation's Certified OpenStack Administrator exam.[27]

As part of a partnership with Microsoft, it was announced in December 2015 that the Linux on Azure certification would be awarded to individuals who pass both the Microsoft Exam 70-533 (Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions) and the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) exam.[28]

In early 2017, at the annual Open Source Leadership Summit, it was announced that the Linux Foundation would begin offering an Inclusive Speaker Orientation course in partnership with the National Center for Women & Information Technology. The free course is designed to give participants "practical skills to promote inclusivity in their presentations."[29]

In September 2020, the Linux Foundation released a free serverless computing training course with CNCF. It is taught by Alex Ellis, founder of OpenFaaS.[30]

Among many other organization with similar offerings, The Linux Foundation has reported a 40% increase in demand for their online courses in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting social-distancing measures.[31]

Patent Commons Project

The patent commons consists of all patented software which has been made available to the open source community. For software to be considered to be in the commons the patent owner must guarantee that developers will not be sued for infringement, though there may be some restrictions on the use of the patented code. The concept was first given substance by Red Hat in 2001 when it published its Patent Promise.[32]

The Patent Commons Project was launched on November 15, 2005, by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). The core of the project is an online patent commons reference library aggregating and documenting information about patent-related pledges and other legal solutions directed at the open-source software community. As of 2015, the project listed 53 patents.[33]

Projects

Linux Foundation Projects[34] (originally "Collaborative Projects") are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems. More than 500 companies and thousands of developers from around the world contribute to these open source software projects.

As of September 2015, the total lines of source code present in Linux Foundation's Collaborative Projects are 115,013,302. The estimated, total amount of effort required to retrace the steps of collaborative development for these projects is 41,192.25 person years. In other words, it would take 1,356 developers 30 years to recreate the code bases. At that time, the total economic value of development costs of Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects was estimated at $5 billion.[35] Through continued investment in open source projects and growth in the number of projects hosted, this number rose to $15.6 billion by September 2017.

All Linux Foundation projects are covered by the Contributor Covenant code of conduct developed by Coraline Ada Ehmke, which is intended to ensure a safe and harassment-free environment for minorities.

Some of the projects include (alphabetical order):

ACRN

ACRN is a flexible, lightweight reference hypervisor, built with real-time and safety-criticality in mind, optimized to streamline embedded development through an open source platform.

AllJoyn

AllJoyn[36] is an open source application framework for connected devices and services was formed under Allseen Alliance in 2013. The project is now sponsored as an independent Linux Foundation project by the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF).

Automotive Grade Linux

Automotive Grade Linux
 
Developer(s)Linux Foundation
Repositorygit.automotivelinux.org
TypeUnix-like operating system
Websitewww.automotivelinux.org

Automotive Grade Linux[37] (AGL) is a collaborative open source project developing a Linux-based, open platform for the connected car that can serve as the de facto standard for the industry. Although initially focused on In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), the AGL roadmap includes instrument cluster, heads up display, telematics and autonomous driving.[38] The goals of AGL are to provide:

  • An automotive-focused core Linux operating system stack that meets common and shared requirements of the automotive ecosystem
  • A transparent, collaborative and open environment for Automotive OEMs, Tier One suppliers, and their semiconductor and software vendors to create in-vehicle software
  • A collective voice for working with other open source projects and developing new open source solutions
  • An embedded Linux distribution that enables rapid prototyping for developers new to Linux or teams with prior open source experience[39]

AGL technology

On June 30, 2014, AGL announced their first release, which was based on Tizen IVI and was primarily for demo applications.[40] AGL expanded the first reference platform with the Unified Code Base (UCB) distribution.[41] The first UCB release, nicknamed Agile Albacore, was released in January 2016 and leverages software components from AGL, Tizen and GENIVI Alliance, now called COVESA (Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance). UCB 2.0, nicknamed Brilliant Blowfish, was made available in July 2016 and included new features like rear seat display, video playback, audio routing and application framework.[42] UCB 3.0, or Charming Chinook[43] was released in January 2017. AGL plans to support additional use cases such as instrument clusters and telematics systems.

Carrier Grade Linux

Main article: Carrier Grade Linux

The "CGL" Workgroup's main purpose is to "interface with network equipment providers and carriers to gather requirements and produce specifications that Linux distribution vendors can implement."[44] It also serves to use unimplemented requirements to foster development projects that will assist in the upstream integration of these requirements.

CD Foundation

The Continuous Delivery Foundation[45] serves as the vendor-neutral home of many of the fastest-growing projects for continuous delivery, including Jenkins, Jenkins X, Spinnaker, and Tekton. It supports DevOps practitioners with an open model, training, industry guidelines, and a portability focus.

Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry[46] is an open source, multi cloud application platform as a service (PaaS) governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, a 501(c)(6) organization. In January 2015, the Cloud Foundry Foundation was created as an independent not-for-profit Linux Foundation Project. The foundation exists to increase awareness and adoption of Cloud Foundry, grow the contributor community, and create a cohesive strategy across all member companies. The Foundation serves as a neutral party holding all Cloud Foundry intellectual property.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

 
CloudNativeDay 2016

Founded in 2015, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation[47] (CNCF) exists to help advance container technology[48] and align the tech industry around its evolution. It was announced with Kubernetes 1.0, an open source container cluster manager, which was contributed to the foundation by Google as a seed technology. Today, CNCF is backed by over 450 sponsors. Founding members include Google, CoreOS, Mesosphere, Red Hat, Twitter, Huawei, Intel, Cisco, IBM, Docker, Univa, and VMware.[49][50]

CHAOSS

The Community Health Analytics Open Source Software (CHAOSS) project[51] was announced at the 2017 Open Source Summit North America in Los Angeles.[52] Overall, the project aims to provide transparency and health and security metrics for open-source projects.[53]

Code Aurora Forum

Code Aurora Forum[54] is a consortium of companies with projects serving the mobile wireless industry. Software projects it concerns itself with are e.g. Android for MSM, Femto Linux Project, LLVM, MSM WLAN and Linux-MSM.

Core Embedded Linux Project

Started in 2003, the Core Embedded Linux Project[55] aims to provide a vendor-neutral place to establish core embedded Linux technologies beyond those of the Linux Foundation's Projects. From the start, any Linux Foundation member company has been allowed to apply for membership in the Core Embedded Linux Project.

Core Infrastructure Initiative

Main article: Core Infrastructure Initiative

The Core Infrastructure Initiative[56] was announced on 25 April 2014 in the wake of Heartbleed to fund and support free and open-source software projects that are critical to the functioning of the Internet.

Delta Lake

Delta Lake[57] is an open-source storage layer that brings ACID transactions to Apache Spark and big data workloads.

DiaMon Workgroup

The DiaMon Workgroup works toward improving interoperability between open source tools and improve Linux-based tracing, profiling, logging, and monitoring features. According to the workgroup, DiaMon "aims to accelerate this development by making it easier to work together on common pieces."[58]

DPDK

The Data Plane Development Kit[59] consists of libraries to accelerate CPU architecture-running packet processing workloads. According to Intel, "DPDK can improve packet processing performance by up to ten times."[60]

Dronecode

Started in 2014, Dronecode[61] began as an open source, collaborative project to unite current and future open source drone initiatives under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. The goal is a common, shared open source stack for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Chris Anderson (CEO of 3D Robotics & founder of DIY Drones) serves as the chairman of the board of directors. Lorenz Meier, creator of PX4, MAVLink, QGC, and Pixhawk serves as the community representative on the Board.

EdgeX Foundry

Founded in 2017, EdgeX Foundry acts as a vendor-neutral interoperability framework. It is hosted in a hardware and OS agnostic reference platform and seeks to enable an ecosystem of plug-and-play components, uniting the marketplace and accelerating IoT deployment. The project wants to enable collaborators to freely work on open and interoperable IoT solutions with existing and self-created connectivity standards.

ELISA

The ELISA (Enabling Linux In Safety Applications) project was started to make it easier for companies to build and certify Linux kernel-based safety-critical applications – systems whose failure could result in loss of human life, significant property damage or environmental damage. ELISA members are working together to define and maintain a common set of tools and processes that can help companies demonstrate that a Linux-based system meets the necessary safety requirements for certification.[62]

ELISA was launched in 2019 and builds upon work done by SIL2LinuxMP and Real-Time Linux projects.[63]

FD.io

The Fast Data Project-referred to as "Fido"- provides an IO services framework for the next wave of network and storage software. In the stack, FD.io is the universal data plane. "FD.io runs completely in the user space," said Ed Warnicke[64] (consulting engineer with Cisco and chair of the FD.io technical steering committee).

FinOps Foundation

The FinOps Foundation supports practitioners of FinOps, a discipline that helps finance and IT operations teams to work together to manage public cloud spending collaboratively, to get the maximum value out of cloud investments in a way that aligns to organizational goals. FinOps principles, best practices and framework allow for more accountability and predictability to the highly variable, self-service, consumption based billing models of public cloud.[65][66]

FOSSology

FOSSology is primarily a project dedicated to an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. Users are able to run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. A database and web UI provide a compliance workflow.[67]

FRRouting

FRRouting (FRR)[68] is an IP routing protocol suite for Unix and Linux platforms. It incorporates protocol daemons for BGP, IS-IS, LDP, OSPF, PIM, and RIP.

GraphQL Foundation

Main article: GraphQL

On 7 November 2018, the GraphQL project was moved from Facebook to the newly established GraphQL Foundation, hosted by the non-profit Linux Foundation.[69][70]

Hyperledger

The Hyperledger project is a global, open source effort based around advancing cross-industry blockchain technologies. In addition to being hosted by the Linux Foundation, it is backed by finance, banking, IoT, supply chain, manufacturing and technology leaders.[71] The project is the foundation's fastest growing to date,[72] boasting over 115 members since founding in 2016. In May 2016, co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, Brian Behlendorf, joined the project as its executive director.

Inclusive Naming Initiative Fund

To prevent offense to minorities and otherwise marginalized individuals, the Inclusive Naming Initiative helps projects and companies make consistent, responsible choices to remove harmful language from open source code and documentation.[73] Such harmful language may include the use of terms such as Master/slave (technology) and Blacklist (computing).[74][75] The initiative has already achieved considerable success in removing such terminology from open source software including the Linux kernel.[76]

IO Visor

IO Visor is an open source project and community of developers that will enable a new way to innovate, develop and share IO and networking functions. It will advance IO and networking technologies to address new requirements presented by cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).

IoTivity

IoTivity is an OSS framework enabling seamless device-to-device connectivity to aid the Internet of Things as it grows. While Allseen Alliance and Open Connectivity Foundation merged in October 2016, the IoT projects of each (AllJoyn and IoTivity, respectively) will continue operating under The Linux Foundation. The two projects will "collaborate to support future versions of the OCF specification with a single IoTivity implementation."[77]

JanusGraph

Main article: JanusGraph

JanusGraph aims to continue open source development of the TitanDB graph database. It is a fork TitanDB, "the distributed graph database that was originally released in 2012 to enable users to find connections among large data sets composed of billions of vertices and edges."[78]

JS Foundation

See also: OpenJS Foundation § jQuery Foundation

JS Foundation existed from 2016 to 2019.[79] It was created in 2016 when the Dojo Foundation merged with jQuery Foundation, which merged subsequently rebranded itself as JS Foundation and became a Linux Foundation project.[80][81][82] In 2019, the JS Foundation merged with the Node.js Foundation to form the new OpenJS Foundation[83][84] with a stated mission to foster healthy growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem as a whole.[85]

Kinetic Open Storage Project

The Kinetic Open Storage Project is dedicated to creating an open source standard around Ethernet-enabled, key/value Kinetic devices for accessing their drives. By creating this standard, it expands the available ecosystem of software, hardware, and systems developers. The project is the result of an alliance including major hard drive manufacturers - Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital - in addition to Cisco, Cleversafe, Dell, DigitalSense, NetApp, Open vStorage, Red Hat and Scality.[86]

Linux Standard Base

The Linux Standard Base, or LSB, is a joint project by several Linux distributions under the organizational structure of the Linux Foundation to standardize the software system structure, or filesystem hierarchy, used with Linux operating system. The LSB is based on the POSIX specification, the Single UNIX Specification, and several other open standards, but extends them in certain areas.

According to the LSB:

The goal of the LSB is to develop and promote a set of open standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant system even in binary form. In addition, the LSB will help coordinate efforts to recruit software vendors to port and write products for Linux Operating System.

The LSB compliance may be certified for a product by a certification procedure.[87]

The LSB specifies for example: standard libraries, a number of commands and utilities that extend the POSIX standard, the layout of the file system hierarchy, run levels, the printing system, including spoolers such as CUPS and tools like Foomatic and several extensions to the X Window System.

Long Term Support Initiative

LTSI is a project created/supported by Hitachi, LG Electronics, NEC, Panasonic, Qualcomm Atheros, Renesas Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sony and Toshiba, hosted at The Linux Foundation. It aims to maintain a common Linux base for use in a variety of consumer electronics products.

MLflow

MLflow is an open source platform to manage the ML lifecycle, including experimentation, reproducibility, deployment, and a central model registry.

Node.js Foundation

See also: OpenJS Foundation § Node.js Foundation

The Node.js Foundation existed from 2015 to 2019.[88] In 2019, the Node.js Foundation merged with the JS Foundation to form the new OpenJS Foundation.[83][84] with a stated mission to foster healthy growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem as a whole.[85]

ODPi

ODPi (Open Data Platform initiative) hosts open source projects that accelerate the development and delivery of big data solutions.[89] It aims to deliver well-defined open source and open data technologies that run across distributed devices. It promotes these technologies worldwide through certification programs and other forms of marketing.

ONOS

ONOS (Open Network Operating System) is an open source community with a mission of bringing the promise of software-defined networking (SDN) to communications service providers in order to make networks more agile for mobile and data center applications with better economics for both users and providers.

OpenAPI Initiative (OAI)

OAI is committed to standardizing how REST APIs are described. SmartBear Software has donated the Swagger Specification directly to the initiative.[90] The new name for the specification is OpenAPI Specification.

OpenBMC

The OpenBMC project is a collaborative open-source project whose goal is to produce an open source implementation of the Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) Firmware Stack.[91][92]

OpenChain

The OpenChain Project aims to define effective open source software compliance in software supply chains. A key output is a reference specification[93] for "good" open source compliance, which has become the ISO/IEC 5230 standard. Another output is a simple self-certification scheme that companies can submit to test their conformance with the standard.

Open Container Initiative

In 2015, Docker & CoreOS launched the Open Container Initiative in partnership with The Linux Foundation to create a set of industry standards in the open around container formats and runtime.[94]

OpenDaylight

Main article: OpenDaylight Project

OpenDaylight is the leading open SDN platform, which aims to accelerate the adoption of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in service provider, enterprise and research networks.

OpenJS Foundation

See also: OpenJS Foundation

The OpenJS Foundation is made up of 29 open source JavaScript projects including Appium, Dojo, jQuery, and Node.js, and webpack.[95] Founding members included Google, Microsoft, IBM, PayPal, GoDaddy, and Joyent.[84] It was founded in 2019 from a merger of JS Foundation and Node.js Foundation.[83][84] Its stated mission is to foster healthy growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem by providing a neutral organization to host projects and collaboratively fund activities that benefit the ecosystem as a whole.[85]

Open Mainframe Project

Main article: Open Mainframe Project

The Open Mainframe Project aims to drive harmony across the mainframe community and to developed shared tool sets and resources. The project also endeavors to heighten participation of academic institutions in educating mainframe Linux engineers and developers.

OpenMAMA

OpenMAMA (Open Middleware Agnostic Messaging API)[96] is a lightweight vendor-neutral integration layer for systems built on top of a variety of message-oriented middleware.

OpenMessaging

Announced in October 2017, the goal of OpenMessaging is to act as a vendor-neutral open standard for distributed messaging/stream. The project is supported by Alibaba, Verizon's Oath business unit, and others.[97]

OpenPrinting

 
Linux/Unix CUPS printing architecture

The OpenPrinting workgroup is a website belonging to the Linux Foundation which provides documentation and software support for printing under Linux.[98] Formed as LinuxPrinting.org, in 2006 it became part of the Free Standards Group.

They developed a database that lists a wide variety of printers from various manufacturers. The database allows people to give a report on the support and quality of each printer, and they also give a report on the support given to Linux by each printer vendor. They have also created a foomatic (formerly cupsomatic) script which plugs into the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS).

OpenSDS

OpenSDS is an open source software defined storage controller. As journalist Swapnil Bhartiya explained for CIO, it was formed to create "an industry response to address software-defined storage integration challenges with the goal of driving enterprise adoption of open standards." It is supported by storage users/vendors, including Dell, Huawei, Fujitsu, HDS, Vodafone and Oregon State University.[99]

Open vSwitch

Originally created at Nicira before moving to VMware (and eventually the Linux Foundation), OvS is an open source virtual switch supporting standard management interfaces and protocols.[100]

ONAP

The Open Network Automation Platform is the result of OPEN-O and Open ECOMP projects merging in April 2017. The platform allows end users to design, manage, and automate services and virtual functions.

OPNFV

The Open Platform for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) "aims to be a carrier-grade, integrated platform that introduces new products and services to the industry more quickly."[101] In 2016, the project began an internship program, created a working group and an "End User Advisory Group" (founded by users & the board)

Overture Maps Foundation

In mid-December 2022, the foundation announced the launch of a new mapping collaboration, the Overture Maps Foundation. Its stated mission is "powering current and next-generation map products by creating reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data." Overture founding members were Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft and TomTom.[102][103][104] Overture is to be complementary to the crowdsourced OpenStreetMap (OSM) project and the foundation encourages members to contribute data directly to OSM.[105]

PNDA

PNDA (Platform for Network Data Analytics)[106] is a platform for scalable network analytics, rounding up data from "multiple sources on a network and works with Apache Spark to crunch the numbers in order to find useful patterns in the data more effectively."[107]

R Consortium

The R Consortium is dedicated to expanding the use of R language and developing it further. R Consortium works with the R Foundation and other organizations working to broaden the reach of the language. The consortium is supported by a collection of tech industry heavyweights including Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Google, and Esri.[108]

Real-Time Linux

Further information: PREEMPT_RT

Real-Time Linux has an overall goal of encouraging widespread adoption of Real Time. It was formed to coordinate efforts to mainline PREEMPT_RT and assist maintainers in "continuing development work, long-term support and future research of RT."[109] Before 2004 there were research projects but no serious attempt at merging with mainline kernel. In 2004 Ingo Molnar started work on a patchset joined by Thomas Gleixner, who was working with Douglas Niehaus, and Steven Rostedt along with others. The patchset has seen rewriting and configuration has been merged into mainline kernel.[110][111]

Project is aimed at deterministic RTOS with work involving threaded interrupts and priority inheritance.[112] There is a wide range of requirements and use cases for RTOS and while project aims at large amounts of them it is not aiming for the most narrow and specialized range of cases.[113][114]

Unrelated work is done by FSMLabs for RTLinux.

RethinkDB

Main article: RethinkDB

After RethinkDB announced its shutdown as a business,[115] the Linux Foundation announced that it had purchased the intellectual property under its Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, which was then relicensed under the Apache License (ASLv2).[116] RethinkDB describes itself as "the first open-source, scalable JSON database built from the ground up for the realtime web."[117]

RISC-V International

The RISC-V International association[118] is chartered to standardize and promote the open RISC-V instruction set architecture together with its hardware and software ecosystem for use in all computing devices.

seL4

seL4 is the only microkernel in existence which has been developed using formal verification techniques. It belongs to the L4 microkernel family and was, like the other L4 microkernels, designed to attain great security and performance.[119]

Servo

Servo is a browser engine developed to take advantage of the memory safety properties and concurrency features of the Rust programming language.[120] It was originally developed by Mozilla and later donated to the Linux Foundation.

SNAS.io

Streaming Network Analytics System (project SNAS.io)[121] is an open source framework to collect and track millions of routers, peers, prefixes (routing objects) in real time. SNAS.io is a Linux Foundation Project announced in May 2017.

Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion

The Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion (SDDI) project aims to discover and promote best practices to increase diversity and inclusion in software engineering.[122]

SPDX

The Software Package Data eXchange (SPDX) project was started in 2010, to create a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with software packages.[123] As part of the project, there is a team that curates the SPDX License List, which defines a list of identifiers for commonly found licenses and exceptions used for open source and other collaborative software.[124]

Tizen

Main article: Tizen

Tizen is a free and open-source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, and smart TVs.

TODO

TODO (Talk Openly, Develop Openly) is an open source collective housed under the Linux Foundation. It helps companies interested in open source collaborate better and more efficiently. TODO aims to reach companies and organizations that want to turn out the best open source projects and programs. "The TODO Group reaches across industries to collaborate with open source technical and business leaders to share best practices, tools and programs for building dependable, effective projects for the long term," said Jim Zemlin at Collaboration Summit 2016.[125]

Xen Project

 
Main article: Xen Project

The Xen Project team is a global open source community that develops the Xen Hypervisor, contributes to the Linux PVOPS framework, the Xen® Cloud Platform, and Xen® ARM.

Yocto Project

Main article: Yocto Project

The Yocto Project[126] is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture. It was founded in 2010 as a collaboration among many hardware manufacturers, open-source operating systems vendors, and electronics companies to bring some order to the chaos of embedded Linux development.

Zephyr Project

Main article: Zephyr (operating system)

Zephyr is a small real-time operating system for connected, resource-constrained devices supporting multiple architectures. It is developed as an open source collaboration project and released under the Apache License 2.0. Zephyr became a project of the Linux Foundation in February 2016.

Community stewardship

For the Linux kernel community, the Linux Foundation hosts its IT infrastructure and organizes conferences such as the Linux Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers Conference. It also hosts a Technical Advisory Board made up of Linux kernel developers. One of these developers is appointed to sit on the Linux Foundation board.

Goodwill partnership

In January 2016, the Linux Foundation announced a partnership with Goodwill Central Texas to help hundreds of disadvantaged individuals from underserved communities and a variety of backgrounds get the training they need to start new and lucrative careers in Linux IT.[127]

Community Developer Travel Fund

To fund deserving developers to accelerate technical problem solving and collaboration in the open source community, the Linux Foundation launched the Community Developer Travel Fund.[128] Sponsorships are open to elite community developers with a proven track record of open source development achievement who cannot get funding to attend technical events from employers.

Community Specification

In July 2020, the Linux Foundation announced an initiative allowing open source communities to create Open Standards using tools and methods inspired by open source developers.[129]

Core Infrastructure Initiative

The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), a project managed by the Linux Foundation that enables technology companies, industry stakeholders and esteemed developers to collaboratively identify and fund critical open source projects in need of assistance. In June 2015, the organization announced financial support of nearly $500,000 for three new projects to better support critical security elements of the global information infrastructure.[130] In May 2016, CII launched its Best Practice Badge program to raise awareness of development processes and project governance steps that will help projects have better security outcomes. In May 2017, CII issued its 100th badge to a passing project.[131]

Open Compliance Program

The Linux Foundation's Open Compliance Program provides an array of programs for open source software compliance. The focus in this initiative is to educate and assist developers (and their companies) on license requirements in order to build programs without friction. The program consists primarily of self-administered training modules, but it is also meant to include automated tools to help programmatically identify license compliance issues.[132]

Members

As of June 2022, there are over 1000 members who identify with the ideals and mission of the Linux Foundation and its projects.[1]

Corporate members

Membership level Telecommunications

and media companies

Software

developers

Financial

companies

Other Automobile and

aeronautical manufacturers

Component

manufacturers

Device

manufacturers

Platinum Members (15)
(each donate US-$ 500k annually)
Gold Members (16)
(each donate US-$ 100k annually)
Silver Members (1,236)[139]

Affiliates

Funding

Funding for the Linux Foundation comes primarily from its Platinum Members, who pay US$500,000 per year according to Schedule A in LF's bylaws,[140] adding up to US$4 million. The Gold Members contribute a combined total of US$1.6 million, and smaller members less again.

As of April 2014, the foundation collected annual fees worth at least US$6,245,000.

Use of donations

Before early 2018, the Linux Foundation's website stated that it "uses [donations] in part to help fund the infrastructure and fellows (like Linus Torvalds) who help develop the Linux kernel."[141]

Events

The Linux Foundation events[142] are where the creators, maintainers, and practitioners of the most important open source projects meet. Linux Foundation events in 2017, for example, were expected to attract nearly 25,000 developers, maintainers, system administrators, thought leaders, business executives and other industry professionals from more than 4,000 organizations across 85 countries. Many open source projects also co-locate their events at the Linux Foundation events to take advantage of the cross-community collaboration with projects in the same industry.

2017 events covered various trends in open source, including big data, cloud native, containers, IoT, networking, security, and more.

Linux Foundation events are covered by a comprehensive code of conduct prohibiting inappropriate behavior, including harassment and offensive language. This applies at all times, either before, during or after the event, not only in person but also on social media and any other form of electronic communication. Persons witnessing such behavior are encouraged to report it to conference staff immediately and offenders may face penalties up to and including a lifetime ban from all future events.[143] Additionally, to further improve diversity at events, all-male panels or speaker line-ups are specifically disallowed.[144]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Linux Foundation has transitioned their events to a digital model until the virus has been successfully managed. The Foundation's largest event, Open Source Summit, was held remotely from June 29 to July 2, 2020 — it had originally been planned to take place in Austin, Texas.[145]

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linux, foundation, this, article, multiple, issues, please, help, improve, discuss, these, issues, talk, page, learn, when, remove, these, template, messages, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, addi. This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Linux Foundation news newspapers books scholar JSTOR June 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article contains content that is written like an advertisement Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view March 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message The Linux Foundation LF is a non profit technology consortium founded in 2000 as a merger between Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group to standardize Linux support its growth and promote its commercial adoption Additionally it hosts and promotes the collaborative development of open source software projects 2 3 4 It is a major force in promoting diversity and inclusion in both Linux and the wider open source software community 5 The Linux FoundationPredecessorOpen Source Development LabsFree Standards GroupFormation2000 23 years ago 2000 Type501 c 6 organizationPurposeBuild sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and commercial adoption LocationSan Francisco California United States Yokohama shi Kanagawa Japan Bruxelles BelgiumMembership1 000 corporate members 1 Key peopleKey people Linus TorvaldsJim ZemlinMike WosterMike DolanKaren CopenhaverAbby KearnsArpit JoshipuraBrian BehlendorfAndy UpdegroveAngela BrownChris AniszczykHeather KirkseyKate StewartDan CauchyNoriaki FukuyasuClyde SeepersadDan KohnCalista RedmondRobin GinnShubhra KarEmployees150Websitewww wbr linuxfoundation wbr orgJim Zemlin at the opening of the LinuxCon Europe 2014 Linus Torvalds at LinuxCon North America 2016 The foundation was launched in 2000 under the Open Source Development Labs OSDL and became the organization it is today when OSDL merged with the Free Standards Group FSG The Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and lead maintainer Greg Kroah Hartman Furthermore it is supported by members such as AT amp T Cisco Fujitsu Google Hitachi Huawei IBM Intel Meta 6 Microsoft 7 NEC Oracle Orange S A Qualcomm Samsung 8 Tencent and VMware as well as developers from around the world In recent years the Linux Foundation has expanded its support programs through events training and certification as well as open source projects Projects hosted at the Linux Foundation include the Linux kernel project Kubernetes Automotive Grade Linux ONAP Open Network Automation Platform Hyperledger Cloud Native Computing Foundation Cloud Foundry Foundation Xen project and many others Contents 1 Goals 2 Initiatives 2 1 Community Data License Agreement CDLA 2 2 Linux com 2 3 Linux Foundation Public Health LFPH 2 4 LF Climate Finance Foundation 2 5 LF Energy 2 6 Training and certification 2 7 Patent Commons Project 3 Projects 3 1 ACRN 3 2 AllJoyn 3 3 Automotive Grade Linux 3 3 1 AGL technology 3 4 Carrier Grade Linux 3 5 CD Foundation 3 6 Cloud Foundry 3 7 Cloud Native Computing Foundation 3 8 CHAOSS 3 9 Code Aurora Forum 3 10 Core Embedded Linux Project 3 11 Core Infrastructure Initiative 3 12 Delta Lake 3 13 DiaMon Workgroup 3 14 DPDK 3 15 Dronecode 3 16 EdgeX Foundry 3 17 ELISA 3 18 FD io 3 19 FinOps Foundation 3 20 FOSSology 3 21 FRRouting 3 22 GraphQL Foundation 3 23 Hyperledger 3 24 Inclusive Naming Initiative Fund 3 25 IO Visor 3 26 IoTivity 3 27 JanusGraph 3 28 JS Foundation 3 29 Kinetic Open Storage Project 3 30 Linux Standard Base 3 31 Long Term Support Initiative 3 32 MLflow 3 33 Node js Foundation 3 34 ODPi 3 35 ONOS 3 36 OpenAPI Initiative OAI 3 37 OpenBMC 3 38 OpenChain 3 39 Open Container Initiative 3 40 OpenDaylight 3 41 OpenJS Foundation 3 42 Open Mainframe Project 3 43 OpenMAMA 3 44 OpenMessaging 3 45 OpenPrinting 3 46 OpenSDS 3 47 Open vSwitch 3 48 ONAP 3 49 OPNFV 3 50 Overture Maps Foundation 3 51 PNDA 3 52 R Consortium 3 53 Real Time Linux 3 54 RethinkDB 3 55 RISC V International 3 56 seL4 3 57 Servo 3 58 SNAS io 3 59 Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion 3 60 SPDX 3 61 Tizen 3 62 TODO 3 63 Xen Project 3 64 Yocto Project 3 65 Zephyr Project 4 Community stewardship 4 1 Goodwill partnership 4 2 Community Developer Travel Fund 4 3 Community Specification 4 4 Core Infrastructure Initiative 4 5 Open Compliance Program 5 Members 5 1 Corporate members 5 2 Affiliates 6 Funding 6 1 Use of donations 7 Events 8 References 9 External linksGoals EditThe Linux Foundation is dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and commercial adoption The foundation currently sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and lead maintainer Greg Kroah Hartman and aims to provide a neutral home where Linux kernel development can be protected and accelerated 9 The foundation also hosts collaborative events among the Linux technical community software developers industry and end users to solve pressing issues facing Linux and open source 10 The Linux Foundation supports the Free software movement by offering technical information and education through its annual events such as Open Source Leadership Summit Linux Kernel Developers Summit and Open Source Summit 11 A developer travel fund is available 12 Initiatives EditCommunity Data License Agreement CDLA Edit See also Open Database License Introduced in October 2017 13 the Community Data License Agreement CDLA is a legal framework for sharing data 14 There are two initial CDLA licenses The CDLA Sharing license was designed to embody the principles of copyleft in a data license It puts terms in place to ensure that downstream recipients can use and modify that data and are also required to share their changes to the data The CDLA Permissive agreement is similar to permissive open source licenses in that the publisher of data allows anyone to use modify and do what they want with the data with no obligations to share changes or modifications Linux com Edit Further information Linux com On March 3 2009 the Linux Foundation announced that they would take over the management of Linux com from its previous owners SourceForge Inc 15 The site was relaunched on May 13 2009 shifting away from its previous incarnation as a news site to become a central source for Linux tutorials information software documentation and answers across the server desktop netbook mobile and embedded areas It also includes a directory of Linux software and hardware 16 Much like Linux itself Linux com plans to rely on the community to create and drive the content and conversation Linux Foundation Public Health LFPH Edit In 2020 amidst the COVID 19 pandemic the Linux Foundation announced the LFPH 17 a program dedicated to advancing and supporting the virus contact tracing work led by Google and Apple and their Bluetooth notification systems The LFPH is focusing its efforts on public health applications including the effort s first initiative a notification app intended for governments wanting to launch their privacy focused exposure notification networks As of today LFPH hosts two contact tracing apps 18 LF Climate Finance Foundation Edit In September 2020 The Linux Foundation announced the LF Climate Finance Foundation LFCF a new initiative to encourage investment in AI enhanced open source analytics to address climate change 19 LFCF plans to build a platform that will utilize open source open data to help the financial investment NGO and academia sectors to help better model companies exposure to climate change 20 Allianz Amazon Microsoft and S amp P Global will be the initiative s founding members 21 LF Energy Edit Main article LF Energy LF Energy is an initiative launched by the Linux Foundation in 2018 to improve the power grid 22 23 Training and certification Edit Main article Linux Foundation Linux Certification The Linux Foundation Training Program features instructors and content from the leaders of the Linux developer and open source communities 24 Participants receive Linux training that is vendor neutral and created with oversight from leaders of the Linux development community The Linux Foundation s online and in person training programs aim to deliver broad foundational knowledge and networking opportunities In March 2014 the Linux Foundation and edX partnered to offer a free massive open online class titled Introduction to Linux 25 This was the first in a series of ongoing free offerings from both organizations whose current catalogue of MOOCs include Intro to DevOps Intro to Cloud Foundry and Cloud Native Software Architecture Intro to Apache Hadoop Intro to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies and Intro to OpenStack 26 In December 2015 the Linux Foundation introduced a self paced course designed to help prepare administrators for the OpenStack Foundation s Certified OpenStack Administrator exam 27 As part of a partnership with Microsoft it was announced in December 2015 that the Linux on Azure certification would be awarded to individuals who pass both the Microsoft Exam 70 533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions and the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator LFCS exam 28 In early 2017 at the annual Open Source Leadership Summit it was announced that the Linux Foundation would begin offering an Inclusive Speaker Orientation course in partnership with the National Center for Women amp Information Technology The free course is designed to give participants practical skills to promote inclusivity in their presentations 29 In September 2020 the Linux Foundation released a free serverless computing training course with CNCF It is taught by Alex Ellis founder of OpenFaaS 30 Among many other organization with similar offerings The Linux Foundation has reported a 40 increase in demand for their online courses in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting social distancing measures 31 Patent Commons Project Edit The patent commons consists of all patented software which has been made available to the open source community For software to be considered to be in the commons the patent owner must guarantee that developers will not be sued for infringement though there may be some restrictions on the use of the patented code The concept was first given substance by Red Hat in 2001 when it published its Patent Promise 32 The Patent Commons Project was launched on November 15 2005 by the Open Source Development Labs OSDL The core of the project is an online patent commons reference library aggregating and documenting information about patent related pledges and other legal solutions directed at the open source software community As of 2015 update the project listed 53 patents 33 Projects EditThis section may have too many subsection headers dividing up its content Please help improve the section by merging similar sections and removing unneeded subheaders March 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Linux Foundation Projects 34 originally Collaborative Projects are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems More than 500 companies and thousands of developers from around the world contribute to these open source software projects As of September 2015 update the total lines of source code present in Linux Foundation s Collaborative Projects are 115 013 302 The estimated total amount of effort required to retrace the steps of collaborative development for these projects is 41 192 25 person years In other words it would take 1 356 developers 30 years to recreate the code bases At that time the total economic value of development costs of Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects was estimated at 5 billion 35 Through continued investment in open source projects and growth in the number of projects hosted this number rose to 15 6 billion by September 2017 All Linux Foundation projects are covered by the Contributor Covenant code of conduct developed by Coraline Ada Ehmke which is intended to ensure a safe and harassment free environment for minorities Some of the projects include alphabetical order ACRN Edit ACRN is a flexible lightweight reference hypervisor built with real time and safety criticality in mind optimized to streamline embedded development through an open source platform AllJoyn Edit AllJoyn 36 is an open source application framework for connected devices and services was formed under Allseen Alliance in 2013 The project is now sponsored as an independent Linux Foundation project by the Open Connectivity Foundation OCF Automotive Grade Linux Edit Automotive Grade Linux Developer s Linux FoundationRepositorygit wbr automotivelinux wbr orgTypeUnix like operating systemWebsitewww wbr automotivelinux wbr orgAutomotive Grade Linux 37 AGL is a collaborative open source project developing a Linux based open platform for the connected car that can serve as the de facto standard for the industry Although initially focused on In Vehicle Infotainment IVI the AGL roadmap includes instrument cluster heads up display telematics and autonomous driving 38 The goals of AGL are to provide An automotive focused core Linux operating system stack that meets common and shared requirements of the automotive ecosystem A transparent collaborative and open environment for Automotive OEMs Tier One suppliers and their semiconductor and software vendors to create in vehicle software A collective voice for working with other open source projects and developing new open source solutions An embedded Linux distribution that enables rapid prototyping for developers new to Linux or teams with prior open source experience 39 AGL technology Edit On June 30 2014 AGL announced their first release which was based on Tizen IVI and was primarily for demo applications 40 AGL expanded the first reference platform with the Unified Code Base UCB distribution 41 The first UCB release nicknamed Agile Albacore was released in January 2016 and leverages software components from AGL Tizen and GENIVI Alliance now called COVESA Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance UCB 2 0 nicknamed Brilliant Blowfish was made available in July 2016 and included new features like rear seat display video playback audio routing and application framework 42 UCB 3 0 or Charming Chinook 43 was released in January 2017 AGL plans to support additional use cases such as instrument clusters and telematics systems Carrier Grade Linux Edit Main article Carrier Grade Linux The CGL Workgroup s main purpose is to interface with network equipment providers and carriers to gather requirements and produce specifications that Linux distribution vendors can implement 44 It also serves to use unimplemented requirements to foster development projects that will assist in the upstream integration of these requirements CD Foundation Edit The Continuous Delivery Foundation 45 serves as the vendor neutral home of many of the fastest growing projects for continuous delivery including Jenkins Jenkins X Spinnaker and Tekton It supports DevOps practitioners with an open model training industry guidelines and a portability focus Cloud Foundry Edit Cloud Foundry 46 is an open source multi cloud application platform as a service PaaS governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation a 501 c 6 organization In January 2015 the Cloud Foundry Foundation was created as an independent not for profit Linux Foundation Project The foundation exists to increase awareness and adoption of Cloud Foundry grow the contributor community and create a cohesive strategy across all member companies The Foundation serves as a neutral party holding all Cloud Foundry intellectual property Cloud Native Computing Foundation Edit CloudNativeDay 2016 Founded in 2015 the Cloud Native Computing Foundation 47 CNCF exists to help advance container technology 48 and align the tech industry around its evolution It was announced with Kubernetes 1 0 an open source container cluster manager which was contributed to the foundation by Google as a seed technology Today CNCF is backed by over 450 sponsors Founding members include Google CoreOS Mesosphere Red Hat Twitter Huawei Intel Cisco IBM Docker Univa and VMware 49 50 CHAOSS Edit The Community Health Analytics Open Source Software CHAOSS project 51 was announced at the 2017 Open Source Summit North America in Los Angeles 52 Overall the project aims to provide transparency and health and security metrics for open source projects 53 Code Aurora Forum Edit Code Aurora Forum 54 is a consortium of companies with projects serving the mobile wireless industry Software projects it concerns itself with are e g Android for MSM Femto Linux Project LLVM MSM WLAN and Linux MSM Core Embedded Linux Project Edit Started in 2003 the Core Embedded Linux Project 55 aims to provide a vendor neutral place to establish core embedded Linux technologies beyond those of the Linux Foundation s Projects From the start any Linux Foundation member company has been allowed to apply for membership in the Core Embedded Linux Project Core Infrastructure Initiative Edit Main article Core Infrastructure Initiative The Core Infrastructure Initiative 56 was announced on 25 April 2014 in the wake of Heartbleed to fund and support free and open source software projects that are critical to the functioning of the Internet Delta Lake Edit Delta Lake 57 is an open source storage layer that brings ACID transactions to Apache Spark and big data workloads DiaMon Workgroup Edit The DiaMon Workgroup works toward improving interoperability between open source tools and improve Linux based tracing profiling logging and monitoring features According to the workgroup DiaMon aims to accelerate this development by making it easier to work together on common pieces 58 DPDK Edit The Data Plane Development Kit 59 consists of libraries to accelerate CPU architecture running packet processing workloads According to Intel DPDK can improve packet processing performance by up to ten times 60 Dronecode Edit Started in 2014 Dronecode 61 began as an open source collaborative project to unite current and future open source drone initiatives under the auspices of the Linux Foundation The goal is a common shared open source stack for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs Chris Anderson CEO of 3D Robotics amp founder of DIY Drones serves as the chairman of the board of directors Lorenz Meier creator of PX4 MAVLink QGC and Pixhawk serves as the community representative on the Board EdgeX Foundry Edit Founded in 2017 EdgeX Foundry acts as a vendor neutral interoperability framework It is hosted in a hardware and OS agnostic reference platform and seeks to enable an ecosystem of plug and play components uniting the marketplace and accelerating IoT deployment The project wants to enable collaborators to freely work on open and interoperable IoT solutions with existing and self created connectivity standards ELISA Edit The ELISA Enabling Linux In Safety Applications project was started to make it easier for companies to build and certify Linux kernel based safety critical applications systems whose failure could result in loss of human life significant property damage or environmental damage ELISA members are working together to define and maintain a common set of tools and processes that can help companies demonstrate that a Linux based system meets the necessary safety requirements for certification 62 ELISA was launched in 2019 and builds upon work done by SIL2LinuxMP and Real Time Linux projects 63 FD io Edit The Fast Data Project referred to as Fido provides an IO services framework for the next wave of network and storage software In the stack FD io is the universal data plane FD io runs completely in the user space said Ed Warnicke 64 consulting engineer with Cisco and chair of the FD io technical steering committee FinOps Foundation Edit The FinOps Foundation supports practitioners of FinOps a discipline that helps finance and IT operations teams to work together to manage public cloud spending collaboratively to get the maximum value out of cloud investments in a way that aligns to organizational goals FinOps principles best practices and framework allow for more accountability and predictability to the highly variable self service consumption based billing models of public cloud 65 66 FOSSology Edit FOSSology is primarily a project dedicated to an open source license compliance software system and toolkit Users are able to run license copyright and export control scans from the command line A database and web UI provide a compliance workflow 67 FRRouting Edit FRRouting FRR 68 is an IP routing protocol suite for Unix and Linux platforms It incorporates protocol daemons for BGP IS IS LDP OSPF PIM and RIP GraphQL Foundation Edit Main article GraphQL On 7 November 2018 the GraphQL project was moved from Facebook to the newly established GraphQL Foundation hosted by the non profit Linux Foundation 69 70 Hyperledger Edit The Hyperledger project is a global open source effort based around advancing cross industry blockchain technologies In addition to being hosted by the Linux Foundation it is backed by finance banking IoT supply chain manufacturing and technology leaders 71 The project is the foundation s fastest growing to date 72 boasting over 115 members since founding in 2016 In May 2016 co founder of the Apache Software Foundation Brian Behlendorf joined the project as its executive director Inclusive Naming Initiative Fund Edit To prevent offense to minorities and otherwise marginalized individuals the Inclusive Naming Initiative helps projects and companies make consistent responsible choices to remove harmful language from open source code and documentation 73 Such harmful language may include the use of terms such as Master slave technology and Blacklist computing 74 75 The initiative has already achieved considerable success in removing such terminology from open source software including the Linux kernel 76 IO Visor Edit IO Visor is an open source project and community of developers that will enable a new way to innovate develop and share IO and networking functions It will advance IO and networking technologies to address new requirements presented by cloud computing the Internet of Things IoT Software Defined Networking SDN and Network Function Virtualization NFV IoTivity Edit IoTivity is an OSS framework enabling seamless device to device connectivity to aid the Internet of Things as it grows While Allseen Alliance and Open Connectivity Foundation merged in October 2016 the IoT projects of each AllJoyn and IoTivity respectively will continue operating under The Linux Foundation The two projects will collaborate to support future versions of the OCF specification with a single IoTivity implementation 77 JanusGraph Edit Main article JanusGraph JanusGraph aims to continue open source development of the TitanDB graph database It is a fork TitanDB the distributed graph database that was originally released in 2012 to enable users to find connections among large data sets composed of billions of vertices and edges 78 JS Foundation Edit See also OpenJS Foundation jQuery Foundation JS Foundation existed from 2016 to 2019 79 It was created in 2016 when the Dojo Foundation merged with jQuery Foundation which merged subsequently rebranded itself as JS Foundation and became a Linux Foundation project 80 81 82 In 2019 the JS Foundation merged with the Node js Foundation to form the new OpenJS Foundation 83 84 with a stated mission to foster healthy growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem as a whole 85 Kinetic Open Storage Project Edit The Kinetic Open Storage Project is dedicated to creating an open source standard around Ethernet enabled key value Kinetic devices for accessing their drives By creating this standard it expands the available ecosystem of software hardware and systems developers The project is the result of an alliance including major hard drive manufacturers Seagate Toshiba and Western Digital in addition to Cisco Cleversafe Dell DigitalSense NetApp Open vStorage Red Hat and Scality 86 Linux Standard Base Edit The Linux Standard Base or LSB is a joint project by several Linux distributions under the organizational structure of the Linux Foundation to standardize the software system structure or filesystem hierarchy used with Linux operating system The LSB is based on the POSIX specification the Single UNIX Specification and several other open standards but extends them in certain areas According to the LSB The goal of the LSB is to develop and promote a set of open standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant system even in binary form In addition the LSB will help coordinate efforts to recruit software vendors to port and write products for Linux Operating System The LSB compliance may be certified for a product by a certification procedure 87 The LSB specifies for example standard libraries a number of commands and utilities that extend the POSIX standard the layout of the file system hierarchy run levels the printing system including spoolers such as CUPS and tools like Foomatic and several extensions to the X Window System Long Term Support Initiative Edit LTSI is a project created supported by Hitachi LG Electronics NEC Panasonic Qualcomm Atheros Renesas Electronics Samsung Electronics Sony and Toshiba hosted at The Linux Foundation It aims to maintain a common Linux base for use in a variety of consumer electronics products MLflow Edit MLflow is an open source platform to manage the ML lifecycle including experimentation reproducibility deployment and a central model registry Node js Foundation Edit See also OpenJS Foundation Node js Foundation The Node js Foundation existed from 2015 to 2019 88 In 2019 the Node js Foundation merged with the JS Foundation to form the new OpenJS Foundation 83 84 with a stated mission to foster healthy growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem as a whole 85 ODPi Edit ODPi Open Data Platform initiative hosts open source projects that accelerate the development and delivery of big data solutions 89 It aims to deliver well defined open source and open data technologies that run across distributed devices It promotes these technologies worldwide through certification programs and other forms of marketing ONOS Edit ONOS Open Network Operating System is an open source community with a mission of bringing the promise of software defined networking SDN to communications service providers in order to make networks more agile for mobile and data center applications with better economics for both users and providers OpenAPI Initiative OAI Edit OAI is committed to standardizing how REST APIs are described SmartBear Software has donated the Swagger Specification directly to the initiative 90 The new name for the specification is OpenAPI Specification OpenBMC Edit The OpenBMC project is a collaborative open source project whose goal is to produce an open source implementation of the Baseboard Management Controllers BMC Firmware Stack 91 92 OpenChain Edit The OpenChain Project aims to define effective open source software compliance in software supply chains A key output is a reference specification 93 for good open source compliance which has become the ISO IEC 5230 standard Another output is a simple self certification scheme that companies can submit to test their conformance with the standard Open Container Initiative Edit In 2015 Docker amp CoreOS launched the Open Container Initiative in partnership with The Linux Foundation to create a set of industry standards in the open around container formats and runtime 94 OpenDaylight Edit Main article OpenDaylight Project OpenDaylight is the leading open SDN platform which aims to accelerate the adoption of Software Defined Networking SDN and Network Functions Virtualization NFV in service provider enterprise and research networks OpenJS Foundation Edit See also OpenJS Foundation The OpenJS Foundation is made up of 29 open source JavaScript projects including Appium Dojo jQuery and Node js and webpack 95 Founding members included Google Microsoft IBM PayPal GoDaddy and Joyent 84 It was founded in 2019 from a merger of JS Foundation and Node js Foundation 83 84 Its stated mission is to foster healthy growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem by providing a neutral organization to host projects and collaboratively fund activities that benefit the ecosystem as a whole 85 Open Mainframe Project Edit Main article Open Mainframe Project The Open Mainframe Project aims to drive harmony across the mainframe community and to developed shared tool sets and resources The project also endeavors to heighten participation of academic institutions in educating mainframe Linux engineers and developers OpenMAMA Edit OpenMAMA Open Middleware Agnostic Messaging API 96 is a lightweight vendor neutral integration layer for systems built on top of a variety of message oriented middleware OpenMessaging Edit Announced in October 2017 the goal of OpenMessaging is to act as a vendor neutral open standard for distributed messaging stream The project is supported by Alibaba Verizon s Oath business unit and others 97 OpenPrinting Edit Linux Unix CUPS printing architecture The OpenPrinting workgroup is a website belonging to the Linux Foundation which provides documentation and software support for printing under Linux 98 Formed as LinuxPrinting org in 2006 it became part of the Free Standards Group They developed a database that lists a wide variety of printers from various manufacturers The database allows people to give a report on the support and quality of each printer and they also give a report on the support given to Linux by each printer vendor They have also created a foomatic formerly cupsomatic script which plugs into the Common Unix Printing System CUPS OpenSDS Edit OpenSDS is an open source software defined storage controller As journalist Swapnil Bhartiya explained for CIO it was formed to create an industry response to address software defined storage integration challenges with the goal of driving enterprise adoption of open standards It is supported by storage users vendors including Dell Huawei Fujitsu HDS Vodafone and Oregon State University 99 Open vSwitch Edit Originally created at Nicira before moving to VMware and eventually the Linux Foundation OvS is an open source virtual switch supporting standard management interfaces and protocols 100 ONAP Edit The Open Network Automation Platform is the result of OPEN O and Open ECOMP projects merging in April 2017 The platform allows end users to design manage and automate services and virtual functions OPNFV Edit The Open Platform for Network Function Virtualization NFV aims to be a carrier grade integrated platform that introduces new products and services to the industry more quickly 101 In 2016 the project began an internship program created a working group and an End User Advisory Group founded by users amp the board Overture Maps Foundation Edit In mid December 2022 the foundation announced the launch of a new mapping collaboration the Overture Maps Foundation Its stated mission is powering current and next generation map products by creating reliable easy to use and interoperable open map data Overture founding members were Amazon Web Services AWS Meta Microsoft and TomTom 102 103 104 Overture is to be complementary to the crowdsourced OpenStreetMap OSM project and the foundation encourages members to contribute data directly to OSM 105 PNDA Edit PNDA Platform for Network Data Analytics 106 is a platform for scalable network analytics rounding up data from multiple sources on a network and works with Apache Spark to crunch the numbers in order to find useful patterns in the data more effectively 107 R Consortium Edit The R Consortium is dedicated to expanding the use of R language and developing it further R Consortium works with the R Foundation and other organizations working to broaden the reach of the language The consortium is supported by a collection of tech industry heavyweights including Microsoft IBM Oracle Google and Esri 108 Real Time Linux Edit Further information PREEMPT RT Real Time Linux has an overall goal of encouraging widespread adoption of Real Time It was formed to coordinate efforts to mainline a href PREEMPT RT html class mw redirect title PREEMPT RT PREEMPT RT a and assist maintainers in continuing development work long term support and future research of RT 109 Before 2004 there were research projects but no serious attempt at merging with mainline kernel In 2004 Ingo Molnar started work on a patchset joined by Thomas Gleixner who was working with Douglas Niehaus and Steven Rostedt along with others The patchset has seen rewriting and configuration has been merged into mainline kernel 110 111 Project is aimed at deterministic RTOS with work involving threaded interrupts and priority inheritance 112 There is a wide range of requirements and use cases for RTOS and while project aims at large amounts of them it is not aiming for the most narrow and specialized range of cases 113 114 Unrelated work is done by FSMLabs for RTLinux RethinkDB Edit Main article RethinkDB After RethinkDB announced its shutdown as a business 115 the Linux Foundation announced that it had purchased the intellectual property under its Cloud Native Computing Foundation project which was then relicensed under the Apache License ASLv2 116 RethinkDB describes itself as the first open source scalable JSON database built from the ground up for the realtime web 117 RISC V International Edit The RISC V International association 118 is chartered to standardize and promote the open RISC V instruction set architecture together with its hardware and software ecosystem for use in all computing devices seL4 Edit seL4 is the only microkernel in existence which has been developed using formal verification techniques It belongs to the L4 microkernel family and was like the other L4 microkernels designed to attain great security and performance 119 Servo Edit Servo is a browser engine developed to take advantage of the memory safety properties and concurrency features of the Rust programming language 120 It was originally developed by Mozilla and later donated to the Linux Foundation SNAS io Edit Streaming Network Analytics System project SNAS io 121 is an open source framework to collect and track millions of routers peers prefixes routing objects in real time SNAS io is a Linux Foundation Project announced in May 2017 Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion Edit The Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion SDDI project aims to discover and promote best practices to increase diversity and inclusion in software engineering 122 SPDX Edit The Software Package Data eXchange SPDX project was started in 2010 to create a standard format for communicating the components licenses and copyrights associated with software packages 123 As part of the project there is a team that curates the SPDX License List which defines a list of identifiers for commonly found licenses and exceptions used for open source and other collaborative software 124 Tizen Edit Main article Tizen Tizen is a free and open source standards based software platform supported by leading mobile operators device manufacturers and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories such as smartphones tablets netbooks in vehicle infotainment devices and smart TVs TODO Edit TODO Talk Openly Develop Openly is an open source collective housed under the Linux Foundation It helps companies interested in open source collaborate better and more efficiently TODO aims to reach companies and organizations that want to turn out the best open source projects and programs The TODO Group reaches across industries to collaborate with open source technical and business leaders to share best practices tools and programs for building dependable effective projects for the long term said Jim Zemlin at Collaboration Summit 2016 125 Xen Project Edit Main article Xen Project The Xen Project team is a global open source community that develops the Xen Hypervisor contributes to the Linux PVOPS framework the Xen Cloud Platform and Xen ARM Yocto Project Edit Main article Yocto Project The Yocto Project 126 is an open source collaboration project that provides templates tools and methods to help create custom Linux based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture It was founded in 2010 as a collaboration among many hardware manufacturers open source operating systems vendors and electronics companies to bring some order to the chaos of embedded Linux development Zephyr Project Edit Main article Zephyr operating system Zephyr is a small real time operating system for connected resource constrained devices supporting multiple architectures It is developed as an open source collaboration project and released under the Apache License 2 0 Zephyr became a project of the Linux Foundation in February 2016 Community stewardship EditFor the Linux kernel community the Linux Foundation hosts its IT infrastructure and organizes conferences such as the Linux Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers Conference It also hosts a Technical Advisory Board made up of Linux kernel developers One of these developers is appointed to sit on the Linux Foundation board Goodwill partnership Edit In January 2016 the Linux Foundation announced a partnership with Goodwill Central Texas to help hundreds of disadvantaged individuals from underserved communities and a variety of backgrounds get the training they need to start new and lucrative careers in Linux IT 127 Community Developer Travel Fund Edit To fund deserving developers to accelerate technical problem solving and collaboration in the open source community the Linux Foundation launched the Community Developer Travel Fund 128 Sponsorships are open to elite community developers with a proven track record of open source development achievement who cannot get funding to attend technical events from employers Community Specification Edit In July 2020 the Linux Foundation announced an initiative allowing open source communities to create Open Standards using tools and methods inspired by open source developers 129 Core Infrastructure Initiative Edit The Core Infrastructure Initiative CII a project managed by the Linux Foundation that enables technology companies industry stakeholders and esteemed developers to collaboratively identify and fund critical open source projects in need of assistance In June 2015 the organization announced financial support of nearly 500 000 for three new projects to better support critical security elements of the global information infrastructure 130 In May 2016 CII launched its Best Practice Badge program to raise awareness of development processes and project governance steps that will help projects have better security outcomes In May 2017 CII issued its 100th badge to a passing project 131 Open Compliance Program Edit The Linux Foundation s Open Compliance Program provides an array of programs for open source software compliance The focus in this initiative is to educate and assist developers and their companies on license requirements in order to build programs without friction The program consists primarily of self administered training modules but it is also meant to include automated tools to help programmatically identify license compliance issues 132 Members EditAs of June 2022 there are over 1000 members who identify with the ideals and mission of the Linux Foundation and its projects 1 Corporate members Edit Membership level Telecommunications and media companies Software developers Financial companies Other Automobile and aeronautical manufacturers Component manufacturers Device manufacturersPlatinum Members 15 each donate US 500k annually AT amp T 133 Tencent 134 Fujitsu IBM Microsoft Oracle Red Hat VMware 135 Meta 136 Intel Qualcomm Hitachi Huawei NEC Samsung Electronics EricssonGold Members 16 each donate US 100k annually Verizon Alibaba Cloud Baidu AI Cloud Cisco Systems Citrix Systems Dell EMC Google 137 BlackRock WeBank Accenture Uber 138 Toyota Renesas Electronics Panasonic Sony ToshibaSilver Members 1 236 139 Aarna Networks Comcast Sprint Arista Networks Canonical PANTHEON tech LinkedIn Desotech AMD LG ElectronicsAffiliates Edit Blockchain at Columbia Clemson University Indiana University Fondazione Inuit ISA Konkuk University NXT Seneca College Trace Research and Development Center at University of Maryland College Park Turbot University of Rome Tor Vergata University of Wisconsin Madison Zhejiang UniversityFunding EditFunding for the Linux Foundation comes primarily from its Platinum Members who pay US 500 000 per year according to Schedule A in LF s bylaws 140 adding up to US 4 million The Gold Members contribute a combined total of US 1 6 million and smaller members less again As of April 2014 the foundation collected annual fees worth at least US 6 245 000 Use of donations Edit Before early 2018 the Linux Foundation s website stated that it uses donations in part to help fund the infrastructure and fellows like Linus Torvalds who help develop the Linux kernel 141 Events EditThe Linux Foundation events 142 are where the creators maintainers and practitioners of the most important open source projects meet Linux Foundation events in 2017 for example were expected to attract nearly 25 000 developers maintainers system administrators thought leaders business executives and other industry professionals from more than 4 000 organizations across 85 countries Many open source projects also co locate their events at the Linux Foundation events to take advantage of the cross community collaboration with projects in the same industry 2017 events covered various trends in open source including big data cloud native containers IoT networking security and more Linux Foundation events are covered by a comprehensive code of conduct prohibiting inappropriate behavior including harassment and offensive language This applies at all times either before during or after the event not only in person but also on social media and any other form of electronic communication Persons witnessing such behavior are encouraged to report it to conference staff immediately and offenders may face penalties up to and including a lifetime ban from all future events 143 Additionally to 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