The Linux Foundation Member Summit

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.

Enterprises are eager to adopt Generative AI to increase their productivity. OPEA, the Open Platform for Enterprise AI, is a new project with the Linux Foundation. It provides a framework of composable microservices for state-of-the-art GenAI systems including LLMs, data stores, and prompt engines. It provides blueprints of end-to-end workflows for popular usage such as ChatQnA, CodeGen, and RAG systems. OPEA applications leverage cloud-native architecture to simplify deployment. It even includes a friendly high-level pipeline definition language for deployment on Kubernetes. This session will introduce OPEA, key component microservices, and how GenAI applications can be composed using those microservices. The attendees will learn to start with OPEA by deploying their GenAI application on a k8s cluster. Explicit contribution opportunities will be shared with the attendees. You'll also see an open source OPEA playground running on k8s, and how to contribute your components to it.

Trust Over IP Foundation, a JDF project under the Linux Foundation Decentralize Trust umbrella, has long been known for its “dual stack” that combines technical protocols with the governance models and artifacts required to create interoperable decentralized digital trust ecosystems. Starting with our ToIP Governance Architecture Specifications (2021) and ToIP Technology Architecture Specification (2022), this year we have published Implementers Drafts of our Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP) and Trust Registry Query Protocol (TQRP). This session will explain how this decentralized digital trust architecture is being implemented in an ecosystem of ecosystems model to produce Internet-scale solutions to urgent security, privacy, and data governance problems around the world such as content authenticity to protect against AI deep fakes.

The software delivery lifecycle landscape (SDLC) is rich with tools and services that help engineers automate every step and aspect of the software production process: configuration management, testing, build tools, artefact storage, deployment and monitoring. How do we connect all these tools, and adopt supply chain security best practices while maintaining a good developer experience from beginning to end? The CDEvents project aims to help solve this problem through standardisation and interoperability. In this talk, the speaker will introduce CDEvents, its vision, the latest news and roadmap; he will present how the project’s shared event format is being adopted by various tools across the SDLC and how interoperability enables a consistent developer experience and helps to achieve a secure software factory.

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.