The Linux Foundation Member Summit

To simplify open source security for the long term, we will need some help from curation and automation. How can we – as an OSS community and industry – help drive this transition, without placing too much of the burden on maintainers? We’ll share our vision for the future, and explore a variety of solutions and examples.

Linux functions as the foundational infrastructure within mission-critical systems across sectors such as energy, transportation, healthcare, and industrial automation. These systems are essential to our society and must operate reliably for decades while adapting to the evolving landscapes of Smart Cities and IoT. Interconnectivity, while enriching our lives, presents significant challenges in managing vulnerabilities and system upgrades, necessitating adherence to international standards and the maintenance of system compatibility and integrity. The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) project addresses these challenges by providing Industrial Grade Linux that enables robust, secure, and sustainable operations. Over the past seven years, CIP has demonstrated a commitment to meeting current operational needs and addressing future threats and challenges. This presentation will explore the value of CIP, focusing on its pivotal role in strengthening cyber resilience while enhancing system reliability. Attendees will gain insights into how utilizing CIP can help build sustainable systems, ensuring they are well-equipped to meet future challenges.

As the JDF nears its 10 year anniversary, we have built a strong track record advancing specification efforts alongside open source projects. This session will provide examples and case studies for how LF Open Source projects and JDF Specifications projects are collaborating on internationally relevant Standards. We will also highlight findings from our State of Open Standards Report, and share some of the programs and resources the JDF have been developing to support open source projects interested in Standards.

This session will provide an overview of the project's accomplishments to date, and provide a roadmap of what is being planned for 2025. Zephyr project is now the 5th most active project hosted by the Linux Foundation. Each release sees about 30% new contributors, and these contributors are resulting in around 3 changes per hour in the code base. Products as diverse as Chromebooks, to Wind Turbines, to Hearings Aids, and Pet Trackers are being built with Zephyr. Learn about the open source and security best practices that have been applied to Zephyr over the years, and why it is now one of the most active open source projects at the Linux Foundation.

This session will provide an overview of the Alliance for OpenUSD, an LF Joint Development Foundation project aimed at building a set of specifications to formalize the Pixar Open Universal Scene Description technology. Specific topics covered will include the alliance's purpose, work to date, as well as special focus on collaboration and interaction with the open source community and other Linux Foundation consortia such as the Academy Software Foundation.

The landscape of computing has changed and the majority of software developers are looking to use architectures with multiple types of processors, in particular GPUs. The emergence of modern AI techniques has further accelerated the usage of GPUs and new AI processor architectures to achieve the performance required by neural networks. The challenge developers are seeing is that different architectures often require unique languages, tools and libraries, adding complexity and limiting code reuse. The solution is to provide a single way to develop across these architectures, and the basis for this must be rooted in an open, standards-based programming model and libraries. The UXL Foundation was formed to tackle this, and we are working together to build a solution to these challenges – providing an open, standards-based way to develop software and deploy across vendors. This presentation will show how the UXL Foundation is evolving its projects to meet the vendor neutral demands of software developers by adopting open standards and open source, and how our members are using the projects to enable projects like PyTorch and TensorFlow.