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CREATING THE GREATEST SHARED TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT IN HISTORY
ANNUAL REPORT// 2016
2. A Message from the Executive Director
5. Update from the Chair of the Board of Directors
6. Nearly 900 Members and Supporters Spur Growth
8. More than 50 Projects Create Immeasurable Value
26. 150 Events Draw 20,000 Open Source Professionals
30. Training Accelerates Tech Development and Adoption
31. Custom Open Source Strategies Promote Business Goals
32. Legal Programs Ensure Stability of Open Source Across a Wide Ecosystem
34. Inclusiveness at The Linux Foundation
36. Thank You
42. Connect With Us
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Copyright © 2016 The Linux Foundation®. All rights reserved.The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please visit https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage.Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
... [T]he Linux Foundation has shown it can manage competing visions and egos, a bit like when Phil Jackson ran the Bulls.” Newsweek, G. Burningham, May 10, 2016
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In 2016, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Linux, the most successful software in history. At the same time, we pause to consider the immense changes that open source development has brought not only to the technology industry, but to society—and how much work has yet to be completed.
Open source enables phenomenally rapid innovation. Each day Linux alone sees 9,100 lines of code added, 4,800 removed and 1,800 changed. Development on that scale is only possible with the active and enthusiastic support of communities that stretch beyond the confines of any single organization.
The preference for open source as a development model has become so evident that today it’s the de facto standard for software R&D. Within The Linux Foundation, we’re hosting more than 50 vibrant projects and supporting the growth of their ecosystems. From open networking initiatives, to critical JavaScript projects, to influential cloud and container technology communities, the most successful open source projects have their home at The Linux Foundation. The estimated development cost of their code is an astonishing $14.5 billion, with the economic value created many times higher.
The Linux Foundation has earned its reputation as the trusted, neutral home where developers and organizations, regardless of size or geography, know they can participate in open source. That’s propelled us, yet it also creates important obligations.
A MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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As the caretaker for Linux, we’re responsible for the software that powers nearly every high-performance computing system in the world, more than half of the smartphones and tablets in use, and 90 percent of all financial exchanges. We’re directing funding to advances in security to help protect the devices and systems that society depends upon. We’re also investing in training the next generation of developers and users, while making open source communities more inclusive in order to ensure that rewarding technology careers are open to all.
As we prepare for 2017, we’re excited by the challenge of supporting the continued evolution of Linux and all of our projects. We extend our sincere gratitude to the thousands of developers and organizations worldwide who have chosen The Linux Foundation as their open source partner and look forward to another year serving you.
Jim ZemlinExecutive Director
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Jim R. Zemlin
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THE LINUX FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Alan ClarkSUSE
Jeff GarzikBloq
Chris MasonFacebook
Jim WrightOracle
Yoshiya EtoFujitsu
Hisashi Hashimoto
Hitachi
Tsugikazu ShibataNEC
Jim ZemlinThe Linux
Foundation
Frank Fanzilli
Young Yoon KimSamsung
Electronics
David WardCisco
Eileen EvansHewlett Packard
Enterprise
Peixin HouHuawei
Hiromi WadaPanasonic
Erica BresciaBitnami
Doug FisherIntel
David MarrQualcomm
Technologies
Jim WaskoIBM
Nithya RuffWestern Digital
John GossmanMicrosoft
The Linux Foundation concentrated this year on delivering an expanded range of services to its members and to open source communities. Technical communities are selecting The Linux Foundation because it’s uniquely able to support them at every stage of their growth through projects, training, events and professional services. Similarly, members are joining at a pace that’s faster than ever because The Linux Foundation has all the tools they need in order to get ready for open source.
The Linux Foundation remains financially strong and has improved operational efficiencies in order to provide the best possible value to members. As has been the case since the organization’s creation in 2000, Linux Foundation staff have also devoted their energy, creativity and countless hours to bringing technology communities together for the long-term gain of the open source ecosystem.
On behalf of The Linux Foundation Board of Directors, thank you for your continued support of the collaborative development that benefits thousands of organizations and billions of individuals worldwide.
Doug Fisher, IntelChair, The Linux Foundation Board of Directors
UPDATE FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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The Linux Foundation’s projects are working to grow communities that represent the greatest shared technology investment in history. Our projects have grown in terms of the number of developers writing code as well as in the number of organizations supporting those developers. In 2016, we helped bring new individuals into our communities and also helped prepare hundreds of companies to reap the benefits of billions of dollars of shared code.
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NEARLY 900 MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS SPUR GROWTH
2016 Highlights and Trends:
Linux Foundation members
additional supporters of our projects
current members of The Linux Foundation
and projects
407 + 462 = 869
197 members added in 2016
with most attrition due to mergers and acquisitions among members96% member renewal rate
2,781 individual supporters
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GROWTH IN KEY INDUSTRIES:
Enterprise IT
Target | Pinterest | Airbus
Automotive Grade Linux has doubled membership in the past year
Hyundai Mobis | Continental Automotive Systems Toyota Tsusho
Financial services
State Street | SWIFT | BNY Mellon
Telecom service providers
HKT | China Telecom
Linux Foundation Membership by Geography
Membership Growth
AMERICAS 102 members
ASIA-PACIFIC 55 members
EMEA 40 members
• AMERICAS 215 members, 53%
• ASIA-PACIFIC 97 members, 24%
• EMEA 94 members, 23%
Geographic Highlights
42
17
35
10
24
207
China
Germany
Japan
South Korea
United Kingdom
United States
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MORE THAN 50 PROJECTS CREATE IMMEASURABLE VALUE
The Linux Foundation is the home to more than 50 of the most important and active open source projects. With hundreds of members and thousands of developers, Linux Foundation projects are driving innovation across the technology spectrum, from embedded and Internet of Things, to cloud and containers, data and analytics, networking, application platforms and security.
Our projects are unique in that they’re not only generating code: they’re creating ecosystems that will sustain them over the long term by bringing together developer communities to create technology that forms the basis for products that address real market need. The Linux Foundation enables this process by providing governance and membership infrastructure, intellectual property management, development processes, marketing, events and training services required to help grow open source ecosystems.
The result: unparalleled economic value for our members and for society.
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Value of Code CreatedSince the inception of each project through October 2016
Source lines of code written:
Effort:
Estimated development cost:
184,477,418
63,500 person-years
$14,522,000,000
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LINUX FOUNDATION PROJECTS
In 2016 to date, the following projects joined or launched with The Linux Foundation: CORD (with ON.Lab), Civil Infrastructure Platform, FD.io, Hyperledger, JS Foundation, Open Orchestrator (OPEN-O), OpenSwitch, Open vSwitch, PNDA, TODO and Zephyr Project. The Linux Foundation hosts the following projects:
Sector Project Description
Application Platforms
JS Foundation The JS Foundation is focused on mentoring projects across the entire JavaScript spectrum: client and server side application libraries, mobile application testing frameworks, JavaScript engines, and technologies pushing the boundaries of the JavaScript ecosystem.
Node.js Foundation
Node.js Foundation builds and supports the Node.js platform and other related modules. Node.js is used by tens of thousands of organizations in more than 200 countries and amasses more than 15 million downloads per month. It is the runtime of choice for high-performance, low latency applications, powering everything from enterprise applications to robots to API engines to cloud stacks to mobile websites.
Open API Initiative
The Open API Initiative is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a vendor-neutral API description format. SmartBear Software has donated the Swagger Specification to the OAI as the basis for this open specification.
OpenMAMA OpenMAMA, a middleware-agnostic messaging API, is a lightweight, vendor-neutral integration layer for systems built on top of a variety of message-oriented middlewares. OpenMAMA seeks to enable users to develop high-performance, event-driven applications against a single standard API while providing a mechanism for easily switching between middlewares as requirements evolve.
Blockchain Hyperledger Hyperledger is an open source effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration that includes leaders in finance, banking, IoT, supply chain, manufacturing and technology.
Cloud & Virtualization
Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale applications.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation focuses on the development of open source technologies, reference architectures, and common formats for cloud native applications or services.
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Cloud & Virtualization
Open Container Initiative
The Open Container Initiative is a lightweight, open governance project that creates open industry standards around container formats and runtime.
Xen Project The Xen Project is a leading open source virtualization platform that is powering some of the largest clouds in production today. Amazon Web Services, Aliyun, Rackspace Public Cloud, Verizon Cloud and many hosting services use Xen Project software.
Core & Operating Systems
Carrier Grade Linux
Carrier Grade Linux interfaces with network equipment providers and carriers to gather requirements and produce specifications that Linux distribution vendors can implement.
Civil Infrastructure Platform
The Civil Infrastructure Platform is establishing an open source “base layer” of industrial grade software to enable the use and implementation of software building blocks in civil infrastructure projects.
DiaMon Workgroup
Diagnostic and Monitoring (DiaMon) aims to improve open source diagnostic and monitoring software.
Linux More than 25 years ago, Linus Torvalds sparked an open source revolution with a short email declaring he was doing a new project “just for fun.” Today, Linux powers 98 percent of the world’s supercomputers, most of the servers powering the Internet, the majority of financial trades worldwide, and tens of millions of Android mobile phones and consumer devices. In short, Linux is everywhere.
Linux Standard Base (LSB)
The Linux Standard Base was created to lower the overall costs of supporting the Linux platform. By reducing the differences between individual Linux distributions, the Linux Standard Base greatly reduces the costs involved with porting applications to different distributions, as well as lowering the cost and effort involved in after-market support of those applications.
Open Accessibility
Open Accessibility is dedicated to establishing standards that make software applications accessible to persons with disabilities and that make it easier for developers to support assistive technologies.
Open Mainframe Project
The Open Mainframe Project serves as a focal point for deployment and use of Linux in mainframe computing environments.
OpenPrinting The OpenPrinting project has resources to help with printing under free operating systems like GNU/Linux and the BSDs or under commercial UNIX-like systems such as Solaris and Mac OS X.
Real-Time Linux Project
Real-Time Linux was founded by industry experts to advance technologies for the robotics, telecom, manufacturing and medical industries, among others.
Yocto Project The Yocto Project provides templates, tools and methods to help users create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products, regardless of the hardware architecture.
Data & Analytics
ODPi ODPi is committed to simplification and standardization of the big data ecosystem with common reference specifications and test suites.
OpenHPC OpenHPC is providing an integrated collection of components that can be used to provide full-featured reference high-performance computing software stacks.
Platform For Network Data Analytics (PNDA)
Innovation in the big data space is extremely rapid, but combining multiple technologies into an end-to-end solution can be extremely complex and time-consuming. The vision of PNDA is to remove this complexity and allow you to focus on your solution. PNDA brings together a number of open source technologies to provide a simple, scalable big data analytics platform.
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Data & Analytics
R Consortium The R Consortium is working to advance the R language, a free and open source programming language used by statisticians, analysts and data scientists to unlock value from data.
Embedded & IoT
AllJoyn Open Source Project
Working to drive the widespread adoption of products, systems and services that support the Internet of Things.
Automotive Grade Linux
Automotive Grade Linux aims to accelerate the development and adoption of a fully open software stack for the connected car. Leveraging the power and strength of Linux at its core, the project is uniting automakers and technology companies to develop a common platform that offers OEMs complete control of the user experience so the industry can rapidly innovate where it counts.
Code Aurora Code Aurora provides the tested code needed to bring innovative, performance optimized, open source-based products to market and also serves as a staging area for code that is submitted to upstream projects such as the Linux kernel and Android.
Core Embedded Linux Project
The Core Embedded Linux Project aims to provide a vendor neutral place to discuss and establish core embedded Linux technologies.
Dronecode The Dronecode Project brings together existing and future open source drone projects under a nonprofit structure.
IoTivity IoTivity is an open source software framework enabling seamless device-to-device connectivity to address the emerging needs of the Internet of Things.
Tizen Tizen is the home of the Tizen software platform, a mobile and device operating system based on Linux and other popular upstream projects. Tizen supports multiple device categories, such as smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks, smart watches and in-vehicle infotainment devices.
Zephyr Project Zephyr Project is a small, scalable, real-time operating system for use on resource-constrained systems supporting multiple architectures.
Networking and Comm.Infrastructure
CORD CORD™ (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter) combines NFV, SDN and the elasticity of commodity clouds to bring datacenter economics and cloud agility to the Telco Central Office. CORD lets the operator manage their Central Offices using declarative modeling languages for agile, real-time configuration of new customer services.
FD.io The Fast Data Project (FD.io) provides an IO services framework for the next wave of network and storage software. Architected as a collection of subprojects, FD.io provides a modular, extensible user space IO services framework that supports rapid development of high-throughput, low latency, and resource-efficient IO services.
IO Visor Project The IO Visor Project enables industry participants to contribute to and adopt the project’s technology for an open programmable data plane for modern IO and networking applications.
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Networking and Comm.Infrastructure
ONOS ONOS® is an SDN operating system for service providers that has scalability, high availability, high performance and abstractions to make it easy to create applications and services. The platform is based on a solid architecture and has quickly matured to be feature-rich and production-ready.
OPEN-O Open Orchestrator (OPEN-O) is bringing the industry together to develop the first open source software framework and orchestrator to enable agile software-defined networking and network function virtualization operations.
Open vSwitch Open vSwitch, (OVS), is an open source implementation of a distributed virtual multilayer switch. The main purpose of Open vSwitch is to provide a switching stack for hardware virtualization in a network.
OpenDaylight OpenDaylight promotes and advances the global development, distribution, and adoption of the OpenDaylight open source SDN platform.
OpenSwitch OpenSwitch is an open source, Linux-based network operating system (NOS) designed to power enterprise-grade switches from multiple hardware vendors that will enable organizations to rapidly build datacenter networks that are customized for unique business needs.
OPNFV OPNFV is a carrier-grade, integrated, open source platform that accelerates the introduction of new NFV products and services.
Open Source Compliance & Best Practices
FOSSology FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. It allows users to run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line and also provides a compliance workflow.
OpenChain Project
The OpenChain Project focuses on identifying common best practices in compliance programs that should be applied across a supply chain for efficient and effective compliance with open source licenses.
SPDX The Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX®) specification is a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with a software package.
TODO Group Talk Openly Develop Openly (TODO) is an open group of companies—including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter—that want to collaborate on practices, tools and other ways to run successful and effective open source projects and programs.
Security Core Infrastructure Initiative
The Core Infrastructure Initiative is a multimillion-dollar project to fund and support critical elements of the global information infrastructure. It enables technology companies to collaboratively identify and fund open source projects that are in need of assistance, while allowing the developers to continue their work under the community norms that have made open source so successful.
Let’s Encrypt Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated and open certificate authority created by the Internet Security Research Group to encrypt the web.
Storage Kinetic Open Storage Project
Kinetic Open Storage Project is dedicated to creating an open standard around Ethernet-enabled, key/value Kinetic devices. By creating an open source standard for accessing Kinetic drives, it expands the available ecosystem of developers—software, hardware and systems.
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PROJECT SNAPSHOTS
Hyperledger: Changing the Nature of Our Financial System
Hyperledger is a collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technologies by identifying and addressing important features for cross-industry distributed ledgers that can transform the way business transactions are conducted globally.
Blockchain is a peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology for a new generation of transactional applications that establishes trust, accountability and transparency while streamlining business
processes. It might be considered an operating system for interactions.
Brian Behlendorf, executive director of Hyperledger, commented: “Hyperledger is a technology community poised to change the nature of trust on the Internet. As Ginni Rometty, the head of IBM, said recently, ‘The blockchain is to transactions what the Internet was to information.’ It can reinvent how the world works everywhere from Wall Street to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Hyperledger’s goal is to be a
home for open source teams building all sorts of approaches to blockchain technology systems—distributed ledgers, smart contracts and more—that together provide a platform for the next generation of digital marketplaces and distributed applications.”
In Hyperledger’s first year, it has become the fastest-growing project within The Linux Foundation. As of fall 2016, the project has nearly 100 members, including more than 20 in China; three major codebases; and more than 100 active contributors.
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The Linux Foundation has achieved an unbelievable feat in bringing together a community of traditionally competitive institutions. To facilitate such extensive collaboration between startups, financial and non financial corporations and technology giants is an enormous win for the whole distributed ledger industry as firms look to leverage mutually beneficial code for the common good.” Blythe Masters, CEO, Digital Asset
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Node.js Foundation: Millions of Downloads per Month Push Node.js Into the Enterprise
Node.js, one of The Linux Foundation’s most active projects, today is used by tens of thousands of organizations in more than 200 countries, and amasses more than 15 million
downloads per month. Node.js is the runtime of choice for high-performance, low-latency applications, powering everything from enterprise applications to robots to API engines to cloud stacks, the Internet of Things and mobile websites. Over the last two years, more large enterprises, including IBM, PayPal, Fidelity and Microsoft have adopted Node.js as part of their enterprise fabric.
“Node.js is the fastest-growing programming platform in the world and already has an ecosystem more than twice the size of Java,” noted Mikeal Rogers,
community manager of the Node.js Foundation.
PROJECT SNAPSHOTS
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JS Foundation: Supporting the JavaScript Ecosystem
In October 2016, The Linux Foundation launched the JS Foundation, a center of gravity where JavaScript developers and organizations can create, share and find the next big innovation to bet on.
Kris Borchers, executive director of the JS Foundation, said: “Our theme is ‘Innovate Together.’ Innovation on staggeringly small timescales is one of JavaScript’s major strengths. What this inevitably leads to, though, is a very fractured ecosystem where development and innovative ideas are happening so quickly and in so many different places that organizations and developers don’t know which project or which innovation to build their products on top of. By bringing together the JavaScript ecosystem, we’re providing a place where innovation can happen, while the community remains cohesive.”
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PROJECT SNAPSHOTS
Cloud Foundry Foundation: Enabling a Multi-Cloud Future
Cloud Foundry is changing the way global enterprises develop and deploy apps: the future of apps is multi-cloud. Millions of developers writing apps in multiple languages—Java, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Python, golang and more—are actively using 11 Cloud Foundry Certified PaaS platforms, including IBM Bluemix, SAP Hana Cloud Platform, GE Predix and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
“The Cloud Foundry codebase has kept up with this explosive market growth, with a combined 31,000 commits,
2,400 contributors and 25 independent releases in the last 12 months alone,” explained Abby Kearns, executive director of Cloud Foundry Foundation. “As important, Cloud Foundry has maintained velocity with other leading open source projects, including collaborative development on interoperability with Docker, Mesos and Kubernetes.”
She continued: “The future holds significant growth for the Cloud Foundry community. National governments such as the United Kingdom, United States, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand and leading companies across financial services, automotive, manufacturing, telecommunications, healthcare, insurance and retail have standardized on Cloud Foundry as their platform for app development and deployment. Driven by user demand, the community has established a goal of training and certifying 250,000 Cloud Foundry developers in the coming years.”
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation: Sustaining and Integrating the Software Stack for Deploying Applications in the Cloud
The Linux Foundation announced its intent to form the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in mid 2015 and officially launched it with the support of 48 companies in December of that year. Cloud native computing uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, and dynamically orchestrating those containers to optimize resource utilization. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation hosts critical components of those software stacks, including Kubernetes, Prometheus and OpenTracing; brings together the industry’s top developers, end users and vendors; and serves as a neutral home for collaboration.
Dan Kohn, executive director of CNCF, noted: “Kubernetes is now one of the most popular and fastest growing open source projects in history; many of the biggest and most important companies in the world are deploying on cloud native technologies like Kubernetes. An indicator of strong interest, CloudNativeCon + KubeCon in Seattle sold out a month before the conference, and we are planning to triple capacity in Berlin in March 2017 and Austin in December 2017.”
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PROJECT SNAPSHOTS
OpenDaylight and OPNFV: Collaborating to Drive Open Networking
The Linux Foundation is home to several open networking projects, including FD.io, IO Visor, PNDA, OpenSwitch, ONOS and CORD (with ON.Lab), OPEN-O and Open vSwitch. Two of the largest and most mature networking projects are OpenDaylight and OPNFV.
Neela Jacques, executive director of the OpenDaylight Project, commented: “OpenDaylight is transforming the way the world’s networks are provisioned and managed. From AT&T’s Network on Demand to Comcast Internet and Voice to Tencent’s WeChat service, billions of people this year are doing business over networks made more agile and programmable by OpenDaylight.”
In 2016, OpenDaylight delivered two major releases, celebrated the 150-deployment mark and experienced a huge increase in end-user participation—demonstrated by the fact that over half of all new projects in the latest release were led by end-user organizations. Describing OpenDaylight, Forbes’ Kurt Marko wrote: “The project’s success and momentum results from a combination of strong leadership, transparent governance, open, mostly volunteer development and big customers fed up with proprietary lock-in and inflexible systems.”
Heather Kirksey, director of OPNFV, said: “OPNFV is transforming global communications networks to make them more scalable, dynamic and agile. As the world’s service providers and large enterprises migrate their network infrastructure from proprietary hardware elements to software-based applications, OPNFV works to compose an end-to-end NFV platform on which the next generation of network services can run. Through integration, system-level testing and collaborative development of NFV features with upstream communities who focus on cloud, SDN, data plane and service orchestration innovation, OPNFV ensures that the networks of tomorrow will run on open source.”
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Two years into the project’s founding, OPNFV has executed three releases, launched 15 federated community test labs across the world, attracted more than 250 developers to the project, 650 discussion participants on email lists and supported over 50,000 downloads. Since inception, the project has grown to 54 member organizations and launched a 19-company End User Advisory Group.
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PROJECT SNAPSHOTS
Core Infrastructure Initiative and Let’s Encrypt: Fixing the Internet’s Most Critical Security Problems
The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) is a multimillion-dollar project to fund and support critical elements of the global information infrastructure. It is organized by The Linux Foundation and supported by Amazon Web Services, Bloomberg, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, Hitachi, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, NetApp, Qualcomm, RackSpace, Salesforce and VMware.
Working with a host of open source projects, the CII has funded work to both tactically fix exiting security bugs and strategically drive process improvements. The CII’s work includes direct funding of high-profile projects, programs to identify projects or components with high security risk, development of new tools or testing platforms for building open source projects, and programs to educate developers and encourage better security practices.
“Targeted funding to key projects like OpenSSL, GnuPG, Bouncy Castle and ntpd have increased the rate at which security issues have been identified, fixed and closed as well as helping to instil new security processes in these projects,” said Nicko van Someren, chief technology officer of The Linux Foundation. “Meanwhile, the Reproducible Builds Project has helped hundreds of package maintainers structure their code to allow for verification of locally compiled binaries against distribution builds, hundreds
of issues have been filed and fixed as a result of the CII-supported Fuzzing Project and several dozen projects have implemented the practices set out in the CII Best Practice Badge program and received their badges.”
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The Linux Foundation also hosts Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, open and global certificate authority (CA). The goal of Let’s Encrypt is to help create a 100% encrypted web by making it easier for websites to switch to HTTPS.
“Just under 40% of page loads on the web were encrypted when Let’s Encrypt launched in December of 2015,” commented Josh Aas, executive director of Let’s Encrypt. “In less than a year since then, the HTTPS page load percentage on the web is about to pass 50%, making the web more encrypted than not. Let’s Encrypt has been a major contributor to this growth, having quickly become the largest public CA in the world by issuance volume. We’re protecting more than 13 million websites with more than 10 million active certificates, and we’re still growing quickly.”
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PROJECT SNAPSHOTS
Linux: The Most Successful Open Source Project In History
In the past year, the Linux kernel development process was composed of 4,037 different developers working for over 400 different companies, making it the largest collaborative software project. They accepted patches at a rate of eight changes an hour, 24 hours a day. (A patch usually goes through many revisions before being accepted, so the community is creating many more changes than eight per hour.) On average, developers added over 9,100 lines, modified 1,800 lines and removed 4,800 lines of code every day, and the entire source code tree is now more than 22 million lines of code, supporting more different
hardware types and devices than any other operating system.
Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) leverages the billions of dollars of investment made in Linux to accelerate the development and adoption of a fully open software stack for the connected car. The project is uniting automakers and technology companies to develop a common platform that offers OEMs complete control of the user experience so the industry can rapidly innovate where it counts.
“AGL is at the forefront of open source development for automotive functional safety, advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous driving and deep learning,” noted Dan Cauchy, general manager, automotive at The Linux Foundation. “If software is in the vehicle, we want it all to be based on AGL, no matter what the function. We’re planning to address infotainment, instrument cluster, heads-up display, telematics, advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving. AGL is changing the way the driver interacts with the vehicle, the way vehicles interact with the road and the way vehicles interact with each other.”
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As Linux turns 25, it’s worth pondering not only the impact of the endlessly morphing, proliferating OS itself, but its role in legitimizing open source and elevating it to the point where, today, it has become ground zero for technology development.” InfoWorld, Eric Knorr, August 22, 2016
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150 EVENTS DRAW 20,000 OPEN SOURCE PROFESSIONALS
Linux Foundation events are the place where the leading open source technologists and business people meet to gain early insight into software trends and to inform decisions about future technology investments. They are also prime recruiting grounds for tough-to-find open source tech talent.
This year, we produced more than 150 events around the world, with proceeds channeled directly back into the technical communities that our members support.
We have long been known as the host of global technical events dedicated to Linux kernel and kernel subsystem maintainers, but in recent years, we have dramatically expanded our event portfolio to encompass a range of other technologies touching Linux. These include containers, cloud native, networking, big data, the Internet of Things, blockchain, virtualization and more.
In 2016 the Linux Foundation:
3,600+DevOps experts
and systems administrators
1,200+C-suite
executives
7,000+developers,
engineers and architects
2,300+IT managers, directors and
CTOs
1,000+students
Gathered over 20,000 peopleAcross 4,000+ companiesFrom 85 countries at its events
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20,000 people
Additional audience worldwide has viewed more than
of recorded sessions from 2016 events55,000 hours
Managed over
150 events in 46 cities across 14 countries
Created an uncountable number of
collaboration and education opportunities furthering the creation of the largest shared technology investment in history
Promoted diversity in the community through over 150 scholarships and more than $150,000 in travel funds
Added
non-binary restrooms, quiet rooms, nursing rooms and free child care at all Linux Foundation events
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I appreciated the opportunity to interact and speak with others working in the embedded Linux and IoT space. I learned about new embedded platforms, the latest developments for open source projects, open source licenses and various methods for tackling common issues. Big thanks to The Linux Foundation for organizing events for us to gather, discuss and network with the community!” Anna Liao, Scientific Engineering Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Collaboration is what makes great feats of technological and social progress possible. LinuxCon is where the industry’s brightest and most prolific collaborators go to become even better collaborators.” Alex Ng, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
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Launching in spring 2017 and co-produced by the National Center for Women & Information Technology, all speakers and community members will have access to an on-demand training platform to learn how to be more inclusive in their talks, and in the community as a whole.
Also in 2017, LinuxCon, ContainerCon and CloudOpen will take on a new umbrella event name, Open Source Summit, in North America, Europe and Japan. The sub-conferences will be joined by a fourth pillar, the new Community Leadership Conference, created and chaired by industry leader Jono Bacon to expand on the successful Community Leadership Summits he’s held for years in the community.
We’re also very pleased to launch the first LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen in China to support the growing interest in open source among developers and technology leaders in that region. More than 2,000 attendees are expected at the June event in Beijing, which will feature co-located events from OpenDaylight, Cloud Foundry Foundation and Hyperledger, as well as MesosCon China.
As open source becomes increasingly strategic to organizations, The Linux Foundation has responded with the Open Source Leadership Summit (formerly Collaboration Summit). The event will provide an intimate forum for discussion, cross-project pollination and best practices sharing for business, technical and open source program office leaders.
Simply put, no other open source organization gathers the number of community members in as many locations, covering as many topics as The Linux Foundation.
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TRAINING ACCELERATES TECH DEVELOPMENT & ADOPTION
Open source powers everything. To help organizations use open source software strategically, The Linux Foundation provides a full portfolio of tools, including training, open source consulting services, and legal and compliance services. We’re years ahead of others in terms of scale, expertise and resources required to deliver these services. Additionally, and critically, The Linux Foundation is neutral—we focus on core technologies and do not promote one “flavor” over another.
Our training programs are meeting the demand for open source skills straight from the source. Because The Linux Foundation has the code and works directly with the communities developing it, we’re able to create training programs even before products come to market, creating a funnel of talent for any open source technology and a pathway for faster technology adoption.
The Linux Foundation provide everything from custom instruction and classroom training tailored for an organization’s specific needs, to certification testing, self-paced online learning and massive open online courses. Our courses previously centered on Linux, but have evolved to cover a range of open source projects, including OpenStack, OpenDaylight and soon Kubernetes. Companies are investing in employees who can help them not only adapt to, but maximize use of open source technologies. Many report that in addition to training their employees, they are looking to hire open source talent.
The 2016 “Open Source Jobs Report,” created in partnership between The Linux Foundation and the job data firm Dice, surveyed hiring managers and open source professionals about the market for open source employment. We found that 59 percent of hiring managers say they plan to add more open source pros to their ranks in the coming months, with the greatest interest in cloud technologies, networking, security and containers.
LINUX FOUNDATION TRAINING• More than 800,000 enrolled in our free courses the past three years• “Introduction to Linux,” our free course on the edX platform created by Harvard University
and MIT, is our top offering with over 600,000 registrations• Extensive course catalog covers Linux, embedded software development, cloud
computing, DevOps and more• Serve individuals in 215 countries• 67% of individuals trained are outside the US
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CUSTOM OPEN SOURCE STRATEGIES PROMOTE BUSINESS GOALS
In support of our mission to promote the use of open source technology and to help companies get ready for open source, The Linux Foundation in 2016 launched the professional open source management consultancy. Our team brings decades of industry experience to help organizations understand and benefit from using, developing, contributing to and commercializing open source software while managing its legal, technical and operational challenges.
The Linux Foundation’s strategy consulting services include:
• License and intellectual property strategy, such as analysis of technology and IP portfolios to harmonize license choices and compliance requirements with system architecture and commercial goals
• Product and technology strategy built on open source best practices• Community, ecosystem and channel strategy• Go-to-market strategy to target the right markets• Legacy migration strategy to replace select applications, tools and stacks with open
source alternatives• Due diligence support to keep M&A deals moving
Our professional open source management services are offered individually or may be combined to create a complete open source management program. These encompass strategy, policy and process development; program implementation; and governance optimization to address operational and legal risk.
TODO GROUPThis year, TODO, an open group of companies collaborating on practices, tools and ways to run successful and effective open source projects and programs, joined The Linux Foundation. The group provides a forum for open source program managers to discuss challenges such as ensuring high-quality and frequent software releases, engaging with developer communities and contributing back to other projects effectively. A few of the members include Amazon, Box, Facebook, GitHub, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Pinterest, Salesforce, Square, Twitter and Walmart Labs.
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LEGAL PROGRAMS ENSURE STABILITY OF OPEN SOURCE ACROSS A WIDE ECOSYSTEM
The Linux Foundation is focused on legal initiatives, programs and collaboration with the broader legal community working in open source. Through these efforts, we have promoted stability and adoption of open source projects across a wide ecosystem. We have also helped to evolve the legal frameworks and ecosystems that Linux Foundation projects and communities depend upon.
In 2016, The Linux Foundation began an effort to standardize a number of critical project terms and policies that are the basis for sharing much of the world’s open source intellectual property. We began by standardizing on a set of core intellectual property (IP) frameworks for The Linux Foundation’s new projects and are expanding those frameworks to existing projects. Leveraging and reusing a consistent approach allows us to reduce friction in legal reviews and provides a basis for continuous improvement because any issues identified in the future can be resolved more uniformly across all Linux Foundation projects.
The Linux Foundation used 2016 to assert leadership in our approach to open standards and open source software projects. We have become widely known for our work on open source software projects, but remain less known for our work with open standards. However, The Linux Foundation has shown leadership in creating IP frameworks that streamline and enable core IP protection in projects that combine both creation of standards or specifications with open source software development.
One example of this work is with the Open Container Initiative, which uses an IP policy combining both a license for the API specifications and the underlying open source implementation developed in the project itself.
Reducing barriers to open source software adoption also leads to helping companies comply with the terms of the open source licenses they’re implementing. In 2016, The Linux Foundation launched a new website for our Open Compliance Program, to consolidate information and access to our many license compliance initiatives.
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The Linux Foundation also invested in creating a free training course for engineers on the basics of compliance as it relates to software development and release engineering. In just five months, more than 1,500 engineers registered for the course.
We also introduced a new eBook, the “Open Source Compliance Handbook” by Ibrahim Haddad. It was made available to Linux Foundation members mid-year and will be provided to the open source community during The Linux Foundation’s annual Open Compliance Summit in Japan.
The Linux Foundation also hosts communities focused on improving compliance. First announced in late 2015, this year the OpenChain community delivered its first specification and a complete training program. The OpenChain Compliance Specification 1.0 defines a common set of requirements and best practices for open source organizations to follow in an attempt to encourage an ecosystem of open source software compliance, particularly in corporate supply chain networks.
This year also proved to be a year of significant adoption for SPDX. A specification for sharing detailed package licensing information, SPDX v2.1 added a simple format for noting the license of a file in a comment tag within the file itself. This SPDX Short Identifier syntax makes it easy for release managers and compliance engineers to scan software to identify the licenses in a software build. The SPDX Short Identifiers were introduced in large Linux Foundation project codebases this year, such as the Linux kernel and Node.js.
In addition, the FOSSology community introduced tooling this year to increase the ease of adopting SPDX within an OpenChain-compliant program. New in 2016, FOSSology users can now generate SPDX documents from a source code scan, providing an open source solution for creating summary licensing information to pass along with code in the supply chain.
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INCLUSIVENESS AT THE LINUX FOUNDATION
The Linux Foundation works to support diversity in our project communities, at our events, in our training programs and within our own organization. It’s imperative that everyone in the community feel welcome regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, race, ethnicity, age, religion or economic status.
Here are a few facts about who we are and what we do to support progress in this critical area:
LINUX FOUNDATION TEAM• Of our 150 employees, 46% are female,
substantially above the average for major tech companies, which is 30%.
• Women comprise 37% of our management team.
LINUX FOUNDATION BENEFITS• 12 weeks of parental leave, regardless of
whether you are a primary or secondary caregiver; inclusive of all parents regardless of birth, adoption, marital or domestic partner status.
• Full coverage for all types of families, including same-sex partners.
• Flexible work-life balance in a results- based organization that allows flexibility to address personal and family needs that conforms to the employee’s schedule.
LINUX FOUNDATION BOARD • Four of the 20 members of our Board of
Directors are female, or 20%. This is above the Fortune 1000 average of 17.9% and the highest percentage for any open source organization with a board with 15 or more members.
LINUX FOUNDATION EVENTS• Our events are covered by a rigorous code
of conduct that outlines expectations for all who participate in our community, as well as consequences for unacceptable behavior.
• This year, we added nursing rooms, rooms for quiet reflection, non-binary restrooms and free childcare at all of our events.
• We require diversity on panels at our events.
• Launching in spring 2017 and co-produced by the National Center for Women & Information Technology, all speakers at our events will have access to online training on how to be more inclusive in their talks.
• Our event venues are fully wheelchair accessible.
• We offer free scholarships based on economic need.
• We also provide scholarships and travel funding to help individuals from groups that are underrepresented in technology to attend our events.
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LINUX FOUNDATION TRAINING• We provide free training directly to individuals through initiatives
such as The Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarship Program, which is in its sixth year.
• In 2016, The Linux Foundation received more than 1,000 applications for 14 scholarships.
• Winners ranged in age from 13 to 52 and were from Burkina Faso, Canada, Hungary, India, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Uganda and the United States, including an active duty member of the US military.
• Early this year, The Linux Foundation and Goodwill Industries developed the Extended Learning Linux Foundation Scholarship Program to increase access to Linux and open source training certification to underserved communities. The program began with The Goodwill Excel Center, the first free public charter school for adults in Texas, and the Goodwill Career and Technical Academy in Central Texas. It includes free access to our Intro to Linux and Essentials of System Administration courses, as well as The Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator exam.
To support the creation of a more inclusive open source community, The Linux Foundation has partnered with the following organizations:
WOMEN INBIG DATA
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THANK YOU
The Linux Foundation has enjoyed an unprecedented year of growth due to the active involvement and dedication of our members. Our success is your success—you’ve entrusted us with your open source readiness, from project governance and hosting to training to ecosystem development, and your incredibly high levels of ongoing involvement and feedback tell us you feel we’re delivering. We thank you for your confidence and for your lasting and productive partnership, and wish you continued success in 2017.
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Platinum MembersCisco
Fujitsu Limited
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Intel Corporation
International Business Machines Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
NEC Corporation
Oracle Corporation
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Gold MembersAccenture Global Solutions Limited
Citrix Systems Inc.
Doky Inc.
eBay, Inc.
EMC Corporation
Facebook, Inc.
Google, Inc.
Hitachi, Ltd.
Mazda Motor Corporation
NetApp, Inc.
Panasonic
PLUMgrid, Inc.
Renesas Electronics Corporation
Seagate Technology LLC
SUSE LLC
Symantec Corporation
Toshiba Corporation
Toyota Motor Corporation
Verizon Communications
Silver Members3scale, Inc.
ABN AMRO
Adeneo Embedded
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Advanced Driver Information Technology
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Advanced Telematic Systems GmbH
Aesthetic Integration Ltd.
Agenda d.o.o.
Airbus S.A.S.
Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd.
Allwinner Technology, Co. Ltd.
Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
Altair
Altera Corporation
Altoros
Amarula Solutions
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Anchore Inc.
ANZ Banking Group Ltd.
Apcera
Apiary
Apigee Corporation
Appformix, Inc.
Apprenda, Inc.
Aqua Security
Arcontech Group PLC
ARM Limited
AT&T
Atlassian
Atos
Audiokinetic Inc.
Autodesk
AutoIO Technology Co., Ltd.
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
Avi Networks
Axis Communications
Barefoot Networks, Inc.
basysKom GmbH
Beijing Jinmao Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Belink Technologies Co., Ltd.
BitDefender
BitRock, Inc. (DBA Bitnami)
BitSE
Black Duck Software, Inc.
Blockchain
BLOCKO Inc.
Blockstream
Bloq
BMC Software Inc.
BNP Paribas
BNY Mellon
Borqs Software Solutions Pvt Ltd.
Bright Box Limited
Broadcom Corporation
Broadridge Financial Solutions
Bromium
Bubi Technologies Co., Ltd.
CA Incorporated
Caicloud
Calastone Limited
Calix
Canon
Canonical Group Limited
Capital One
Cavium Networks, Inc.
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Centec Networks (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
Centrify Corporation
China Mobile Communication Company Ltd.
China Telecommunications Corporation
Cinemo GmbH
Cirrus Logic
Cloud Elements LLC
Cloud Linux Inc.
CloudBase Solutions
Cloudsoft Corporation Limited
CLS Bank International
ClusterHQ Inc.
CME Group Inc.
Codethink Ltd.
Coinplug, Inc.
Collabora Ltd.
Colu
Compuware
Concurrent Computer Corporation
Consensus Systems LLC
Container Solutions BV
ContainerShip, Inc.
Continental Automotive Systems
CoreOS, Inc.
CoSoSys S.R.L.
Cray Inc.
credativ GmbH
Credits (Pythia Limited)
Crunchy Data Solutions, Inc.
Cumulus Networks, Inc.
Cuscal Limited
DataCentred Ltd.
DataKinetics
Datto, Inc.
Daynix Computing Ltd.
Deis Inc. (EngineYard)
Dell Inc.
Denso Corporation
DENX Software Engineering
Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
Deutsche Borse AG
Diamanti
Digital Asset Holdings
Digital Sense Hosting
Docker, Inc.
Doky, Inc.
Dreamhost
EasyStack Inc.
Edgecore Networks Corp
Eldarion, Inc.
Elektrobit France SAS
EMC Corporation
ENEA Software AB
Energy Blockchain Laboratory
ETRI (Elec Tele Research Inst)
Eureka, Inc (OTSL)
Eurostep Holdings Ltd.
eVue Digital Labs LLC
Exablox
exoscale
Extreme Networks, Inc.
Fluendo S.A.
Ford Motor Company
ForgeRock US, Inc.
FOSSter (Starnix Inc.)
Fox Technologies
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (Subaru)
Gem.co
Genymobile SAS
GigaSpaces Technologies Ltd.
GitHub, Inc.
Global Peersafe Technology Corp
GlobalLogic, Inc.
Goldman Sachs
GT Software, Inc.
Guardtime
Hangzhou Fuzamei Technology Co., Ltd.
Harman International Industries Inc.
Hart Inc.
HI Corporation
Honda R & D Co., Ltd.
Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT) Limited
HSA Foundation
Hundsun Technologies Inc.
Hyperchain Technologies Co., Ltd.
Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
ICAP PLC (DBA as Traiana)
Igalia S.L.
iguaz.io
IIX Inc.
Imagination Technologies Ltd.
Infoblox Inc.
IntellectEU
Intrinsyc Software, Inc.
Intuit, Inc.
INVeSHARE
Irdeto USA, Inc.
iRootech Technology Co., Ltd.
Ishi Systems. Inc.
itBit Trust Company, LLC
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Jaguar Land Rover Ltd.
Joyent, Inc.
JP Morgan
JVC KENWOOD Corporation
Kaiser Permanente
Kismatic
KnC Group
Knowles Electronics, LLC
Konsulko Group
Korea Securities Depository
Kyup, Inc.
L3C LLP
Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Lenovo
LG Electronics USA, Inc.
Libra Services
Linaro Limited
LINBIT HA
Lineo Solutions, Inc.
Link Motion Ltd.
LinkedIn Corporation
Linutronix
LMAX Exchange Ltd.
MariaDB
MBDA Italia S.p.A
Mcloudware Technology Co., Limited
MediaTek Inc.
Meinberg Funkuhren GmbH & Co KG
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
Mentor Graphics Corporation
Mesosphere, Inc.
Metaswitch Networks
Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc.
Microchip Technology Germany GmbH
Micron Technology
Micware Co., Ltd.
Millennium Management LLC
Milligan Partners
Minio, Inc.
MIRACL UK Limited
Miracle Linux Corporation
Mirantis, Inc.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation
Monetago, Inc.
Montran Labs
Moscow Exchange (MICEX
Movimento Group
Murphy & McGonigle, P.C.
National Instruments Corporation
National Stock Exchange of India Ltd.
NCSOFT Corporation
Netflix
Netki, Inc.
Netronome Systems, Inc.
nexB Inc.
Nexenta
Next Thing Co.
Nextiva
Nginx Software, Inc.
NIPA
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
Nokia Corporation
NTT Corporation
NTT Data Corporation
Nutanix, Inc.
NVIDIA Corporation
O.S. Systems Softwares LTDA
Omnibond Systems LLC
Onchain
Open vStorage
OpenIO SAS
OpenSynergy GmbH
Orange Magic Cube Tech. Co. Ltd. (DBA GoX Tech. Co., Ltd.)
OSADL eG
ownCloud Inc.
Packet Host, Inc.
Palamida, Inc.
Parallels, Inc.
ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH
PayPal
PDX Technologies, Inc.
Pelagicore AB
Pioneer Corporation
Pivotal Software, Inc.
Planisys Corporation
Plat’Home Co., Ltd.
Plexistor
Pocket Soft, Inc.
Polyverse Corporation
Portworx Inc.
Produban Servicios Informaticos Generales S.L.
Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH
Puzzle ITC GmbH
Qbox
Quattro Networks, Inc.
R3 CEV (Distributed Ledger Group LLC)
Rackspace US, Inc.
Radio Sound, Inc.
Raisecom
Rancher Labs, Inc.
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Rausch Netzwerktechnik GmbH
Red Hat, Inc.
Replicated, Inc.
Resin, Inc.
Restlet, Inc.
Ribbit.me! USA, Inc.
Ricoh Company, Ltd.
Robert Bosch Car Multimedia GmbH
Robert Bosch GmbH
Robin Systems, Inc.
RPA RusBITech
RSM Partners Limited
RX-M
Salesforce.com
Sampo Software Oy
SanDisk Corporation
SANY Heavy Group Co., Ltd.
Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd.
Sauce Labs
Savoir
SBERBANK
Scality
sdtech Inc.
Serenata Flowers
Shanghai Juzhen Financial Information Service Co., Ltd. (Juzhen Financials)
ShenZhen ChaoSuan Science & Development Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Qianhai Zhaogu Financial Service Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Xinguodu Technology Co., Ltd.
Siemens AG
Silicon Graphics International Corp.
Sine Nomine Associates
Sinolending LTD (Dianrong)
Skry (Coinalytics)
SmartBear Software
SnapRoute
Solace Systems
Solarflare
Sony Corporation
Soramitsu Company Ltd.
StackPointCloud
Star Lab Corporation
State Street Corp.
StorageOS Ltd.
Suntec Software Co. Ltd.
SwiftStack
Switch SUPERNAP
Symbio Finland Ltd.
Symbiont.io, Inc.
Symphony Teleca AB
Synopsys
Sysdig
Tai Yi Yun Tech (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
Target Corporation
Tequa Creek Holdings LLC
Terralogic, Inc.
Texas Instruments Incorporated
The Qt Company
theloop, Inc.
Thomson Reuters
Thunder Software Technology Co., Ltd.
Tick 42 Limited
TimeSys Corporation
Toyota Tsusho Corporation
Travelping GmbH
Treasure Data Inc.
TSX, Inc.
Tuxera, Inc.
Twistlock, Inc.
Ubiquitous Corporation
UIEvolution, Inc.
Union Mobile Pay E Comerco Co., Ltd.
Univa Corporation
Valve Corporation
Vela
Velocity Software, Inc.
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd.
Vicom Infinity, Inc.
Virtual Open Systems
VMware, Inc.
Wanda Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Weaveworks
Wells Fargo
Wercker
Western Digital Technologies
Williams & Garcia, LLC
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Witz Corporation
Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd.
Xilinx Inc.
Yahoo! Inc.
Yunphant Blockchain
Yuntu Kerui Technology Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Shuqin Technology Co., Ltd.
ZTE Corporation
AffiliatesClemson University
Cloud Security Alliance
Indiana University (Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies)
Investrata Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (IFSE)
ISA Research Group
NXT Foundation
Seneca College
Software Engineering Lab of Zhejiang University
University of Rome Tor Vergata
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