The Linux Foundation Member Summit

Have you ever found yourself trying to justify a commitment to an open source project and struggled to communicate the value beyond the usual suspects, such as increased influence or attracting talent? You are not alone. In today’s economic climate, organizations are looking for more concrete returns; they want to know how their investment impacts their business goals. In this talk, Bob will go over some proven successful strategies and tools to help you convey the impact of your organization’s open source investment and provide a lightweight framework that can be used to continue to tell this story over-time and in a sustainable way.

Open source software is ubiquitous and forms the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, yet it often hides dependency risks that can impact organizations significantly. At GitHub, where we depend on tens of thousands of open source packages, we have leveraged open source frameworks from OpenSSF and other communities and created strategies to assess and mitigate these risks. Join us as we explore how OSPOs can use open source tools and standards to create plans for identifying and addressing dependency risks to improve their overall risk profile and improve project health. The talk will cover strategies for engaging with key stakeholders, including security teams, and funding opportunities to build resilient and sustainable open source ecosystems.

You're making decisions about open source project funding, hiring, travel, and overall engagement. But do you have the latest data to get internal buy-in for your open source engagement and resourcing needs? This session will point you to the most current and compelling data and insights from dozens of LF Research studies that drive open source project budgets and strategy, that illustrate the value proposition for open source collaboration, and that highlight examples and resources for you to leverage to set your organization up for success, no matter the industry or technology domain.

In this session led by Marc Prioleau, Executive Director of Overture Maps Foundation, we explore the often-misunderstood distinction between open map data and open source code. While open source code underpins many software projects within the Linux Foundation, open map data, especially in the context of Overture Maps Foundation's work presents unique challenges and opportunities. This talk will: - Clarify the differences and overlaps between open data and open source code. - Discuss the specific challenges in creating and maintaining open map data in the case of Overture Maps - Highlight how open data contributes uniquely to technological advancements, distinct from open source software. - Address common misconceptions in the open source community regarding these two domains.

Ant Group (fintech company with 25K employees) founded Open Source Program Office (OSPO) in 2021. It has been a roller coaster journey to nurture it as the company features primarily a B2B2C business model which doesn't rely heavily on Open Source successes. Building long-lasting open source engagement can be a really challenging, yet rewarding journey. It all began as a technical strategic initiative with 1 individual working on it part time. After 3+ years, the company now has a dedicated OSPO team of 6+ people, a full fledged Open Source Technical Committee, featuring Open Source as a long term Technical Strategy, and starting this year began the global outreach work very seriously in 2024. In this duo-speaker session, we'll share our learnings and reflections of building OSPO in a highly dynamic environment with constant challenges from leadership, peers, and difficulties for building sustainable ecosystem. It aims to provide valuable insights for foundation members, ecosystem players and project leads to work with large corporations, even more useful if there are cultural boundaries to break through.

Are you leveraging the Linux Foundation membership benefit? Hitachi is a member of the Linux Foundation(LF) since its launch and has been collaborating with LF in various aspects. Yuichi Nakamura, responsible for OSS strategy in Hitachi and Japan evangelist of LF, introduces a case study of how to accelerate business with LF as its member company. He will talk lessons learned from a failure case of OSS business, then introduce OSS strategy for business. The most important part of the strategy is to find and take new OSS into our business timely. Hitachi is working with LF to expand utilization of OSS. LF leaders/LF Japan provide forecast of market and technology trends in consultation for members, navigate new projects by connecting with key people and work together to launch local communities. By such support, Hitachi can utilize new OSS projects to business quickly. He introduces detail of collaboration in examples of CNCF, OpenSSF and FinOps Foundation.

The AgStack Foundation launched in 2021 to develop and preserve the open infrastructure and data that supports digital agriculture and a sustainable food system. Since then it's attracted collaborators from around the world, released several projects, and won several grants to support its work. As exciting as all that is, the best is yet to come. In this session we'll… * fill you in on everything that's happened at AgStack since its launch, * give you a summary of the work we have planned for 2025 and beyond, and * show you how you can be a part of our community.