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Linux Foundation Newsletter: June 2024

Written by The Linux Foundation | Jun 17, 2024 6:40:54 PM

We are excited to present the latest updates and highlights from the Linux Foundation in our June newsletter, featuring project announcements, a new research report, three important surveys in the field, exclusive training discounts, upcoming event details, and much more. 

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New project announcements

LF Europe welcomes a new project: Open Mobile Hub. Designed to streamline mobile application development, Open Mobile Hub (OMH) brings a unified, open source framework and adjacent suite of SDKs and tools to simplify the development process for mobile devices. This is the latest project hosted by LF Europe, marking another milestone in our commitment to fostering open source innovation.

Born out of a desire to reduce complexity and accelerate the development of mobile applications, five leading organizations in the mobile technology sector, including Futurewei, Squid, Meetkai, BharOS, and Amaze, have come together to form the OMH project. Become part of this effort to transform the mobile industry!

LF Research: A new report + three surveys in the field 

Latest publication: The 2024 State of Tech Talent Japan Report

The survey findings from our Tech Talent 2024 study were segmented by Japanese respondents and analyzed in this report to capture a focused perspective on talent management amid the unique challenges faced by Japan's IT industry. Read the full report for a detailed analysis of the Japanese technical talent market!

 

We have three surveys in the field, and we’d like to hear from you! 

Are you a developer? Tell us what resources you need to grow your career! Intel and the Linux Foundation are partnering on a project to capture how developers rank events, training, mentorship, research, and other career opportunities. The insights from this survey will help organizations best allocate resources for their developers!

 

Do you work in financial services? LF Research and FINOS are conducting the fourth annual study of the finance industry’s use of, contribution to, and participation in open source. This yearly data is crucial for decision-makers to build strategy that supports open source adoption and innovation.

 

The TODO Group and Linux Foundation Research, in partnership with Cisco, NGINX, OSI and InnerSource Commons, and CHAOSS are excited to launch the 7th annual Open Source Program Office (OSPO) survey! This year, we are building on the history of our research to understand how more established OSPO practices compare to newer ones, the impact of OSPOs when it comes to software sustainability, and how they influence and support security measures. 

 

LF Europe: Community highlights 

  • This month we announced the formation of Open Mobile Hub (OMH). OMH is focused on streamlining mobile app development with its unified, open source framework and comprehensive suite of SDKs and tools. Learn more.

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Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news

Open Networking and Edge (ONE) Summit sponsor organization (spectro cloud) engages attendees on the show floor.

Alliance for OpenUSD

  • Join AOUSD at AWE2024 on June 20. Don't miss a panel on 3D asset interoperability using OpenUSD and glTF. Get your tickets now. 
  • Check out this great discussion with fellow AOUSD members NVIDIA, Cesium, and Trimble on the basics of Universal Scene Description (USD) in 3D workflows. Watch the Geo Week on-demand webinar.

Meet our latest OpenUSD visionary: Perry Nightingale, Senior Vice President of Creative AI at WPP. Get his take on how the synergies between OpenUSD and AI can transform production at scale & enhance accessibility. Learn more.

CAMARA

  • CAMARA is partnering with member company Domos on a two-part webinar series, “Understanding Network APIs.” The first session, targeted for Developers, took place June 12 and the recording is now available. The next session, for Operators, will take place July 10 - register here for free!
  • CAMARA community member and Outreach Committee chair, Markus Kummerle, will present an overview of CAMARA during Telesemana’s virtual Open Telco LATAM Summit, 26-27 June - learn more and register to attend here.
  • Check out a recent blog post from community member Rob Kruver of CPaaS Acceleration Alliance, summarizing the recent ONE Summit experience through the lens of Unleashing Network Potential.
  • CAMARA member company, Verizon, presented a keynote at Open Networking & Edge (ONE) Summit on Unleashing the Potential of Network APIs by CAMARA Treasurer, Alicia Miller. The video recording is available here.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

  • Have you checked out CNCF's newest program, Kubestronauts?! This program recognizes individuals who have successfully passed every CNCF Kubernetes certification (CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCNA, KCSA). Since its inception in March 2024, over 250 people have earned the Kubestronaut title. We are proud to onboard 25+ new Kubestronauts each week. Explore the program details and start your journey to becoming a Kubestronaut today!
  • We're thrilled about two major events coming up for our community! Join us in Seattle for OTel Community Day (June 25) and CloudNative SecurityCon (June 26 - 27). These two events will bring in industry experts, provide insightful sessions and hands-on workshops. 
  • Don’t miss the opportunity to speak at LitmusChaosCon! Submit your session by June 24. 
  • This highly anticipated release of the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OSS + AI Dev China is now live! Join us in Hong Kong from August 21-23, 2024. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn, connect, and grow with the community. 
  • KubeDay events are CNCF-hosted regional-specific events that are helping to bridge the larger cloud native community to emerging and growing regions. Join us for KubeDay Japan, KubeDay Columbia and KubeDay Australia. 

Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF)

  • Have you read the 2024 State of CI/CD Report? Read the full report.
  • Don’t miss the CD Mini Summit, co-located at OSSummit Europe in Vienna, Austria, on September 19. Event details

DENT

  • DENT released a blog post highlighting Köry Maincent’s EOSS 2024 presentation and its sponsorship and funding of member Bootlin's Linux support for PoE.
  • DENT published a blog post covering its participation as a sponsor of ONE Summit 2024.
    • DENT posted TSC Chair Taskin Ucpinar’s (Amazon) ONE Summit presentation detailing DENT’s Features Roadmap for Disaggregated Enterprise Networks 
    • DENT uploaded Taras Chornyi’s (PLVision) presentation breaking down the use of the SONiC SAI Virtual Switch (VS) in DentOS delivered at ONE Summit.

DPDK

eBPF Foundation

  • The eBPF Foundation has launched a Research Fund that will award grants to universities and research organizations to pursue research projects related to the eBPF ecosystem. Applications are due by June 30.
  • Members of the eBPF community presented numerous sessions at the recent Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM + BPF Summit in Salt Lake City. Videos are available of all sessions, and summaries of those presented by the eBPF Steering Committee are being published on the eBPF blog.

ELISA

  • As part of the ELISA Seminar series, Wentao Zhang, PhD student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Steven H. VanderLeest, Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company, gave a presentation titled, “Making Linux Fly: Towards Certified Linux Kernel.” You can watch the video here.
  • On Wednesday, June 26 at 7-8 am PDT, Colin King, Principal Engineer at Intel, will present an ELISA Seminar titled, “Improved System Stressing with stress-ng.” Stress-ng has a proven track record for stress testing Linux systems and forcing out system bugs. This talk will describe new stress-ng features and the future roadmap for stress-ng. Register here, even if you can’t attend live, to receive the video after the event. 

FinOps

FINOS

Hyperledger Foundation

  • During Consensus, Hyperledger Foundation announced six new members and hosted more than a dozen members showcasing Hyperledger tech in action in its booth.
  • Hyperledger Foundation introduced its latest project, Hyperledger Identus, a new decentralized identity applications code base contributed by IOG.
  • In an interview with Nikkei, the governor of the National Bank of Cambodia shared an update on Bakong, the country's Cambodia digital payments system, which is powered by Hyperledger Iroha.
  • The US Navy announced it is looking to partner with private industry to help commercialize internally developed software called Paranoid (Powerful Authentication Regime Applicable to Naval Operational Flight Program Integrated Development) that leverages Hyperledger Fabric to provide traceability and demonstrability in software development.
  • Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) unveiled plans to launch the pilot for Blockchain Brazil Network, which will run on Hyperledger Besu, in August.
  • The Hyperledger FireFly community shared details on the project's v1.3 release.
  • For more updates from Hyperledger Foundation, check out the current and past issues of Hyperledger Horizons.

LF Edge

  • The growth of edge computing presents a significant revenue opportunity for technology and telecom industries. As this technology continues to evolve, effective leadership will be crucial to guide the edge computing industry’s future and maximize its potential. Check out LF Edge interviews with board members, Sam Armani and Sujata Tibrewala, on their insights for the future of edge computing.
  • Welcome the newest member, NuNet, to the LF Edge community. Learn why they joined LF Edge and the benefits of joining the community on LF Edge blog.
  • Why is embracing the relationship between open software and hardware so important? Learn how industry experts define edge computing as a critical paradigm in revolutionizing how data is processed and managed.

LF Energy

  • LF Energy Summit takes place 5-6 September in Brussels. The agenda is now live, and sponsorship opportunities are also available.
  • A new case study discusses how Seeed Studio developed an Open Source EV charging product thanks to Zephyr RTOS and LF Energy EVerest.
  • Video recordings from the Open Sustainability Policy Summit and Open EV Charging Summit, which took place in May, are now available. Summaries of each session are also being posted regularly to the LF Energy blog.
  • V1.2.0 of LF Energy CitrineOS is now available, with improved ISO15118 use cases. CitrineOS is an open source EV charger network software for rapid OCPP 2.0.1 and NEVI compliant EV charge management.
  • LF Energy FlexMeasures has released v0.21, with improved status page and audit log. FlexMeasures is an intelligent, developer-friendly energy management system to support real-time energy flexibility apps, rapidly and scalably. 
  • The Energy Law Journal published an article from LF Energy Director of Ecosystem & AI Alexandre Parisot and others on the adoption of AI by electrical utilities.
  • Smart Energy International has written an article on LF Energy’s recent initiatives.
  • The EV Cafe podcast interviewed LF Energy Ambassador and PIONIX founder Marco Möller discussing making EV charging open source.
  • LF Energy premier member Alliander was featured in a case study published by Eurelectric around capacity management with open source.
  • TFIR has published three new videos highlighting members of the LF Energy community and their work. Nico Rikken of Alliander discusses why code quality and security are crucial for open source projects; LF Energy Executive Director Alex Thornton explains how open source foundations are accelerating the energy transition; and Christophe Villemer of Savoir-faire Linux provides an overview of how LF Energy SEAPATH is transforming power substations.

LF Networking

  • Learn how Walmart leverages open source for operational excellence at scale, including LFN’s L3AF project, in this new blog post summarizing a recent ONE Summit presentation from Dave Temkin of Walmart.
  • The latest release of Anuket (a mature LF Networking project focused on reference models, architectures and testing tools), “Pieman,” is now available. It includes guidance for sustainability and closer alignment with the CNCF for Cloud Native infrastructures. Stay tuned for details on an upcoming webinar that covers the release in detail.
  • LF General Manager of Networking, Edge and IoT, Arpit Joshipura, will present at the virtual Open Telco LATAM Summit June 26-27 - learn more and register to attend here.
  • Frank Brockners, Distinguished Engineer at LFN member organization, Cisco, shared insights on Applying A/ML methods to diagnose network issues using telemetry data at ONE Summit. Catch up on his presentation, which was the most attended at the event, via a summary blog post.
  • Keynote and Session videos from Open Networking & Edge Summit 2024 are available on the LFN YouTube channel, and presentation slides are published on the event schedule here.

Open 3D Foundation

  • O3DE recently published a new sizzle reel that showcases the many capbailities of the project. From immersive gaming experiences to cutting-edge simulations, O3DE empowers creators to bring their visions to life. Watch the video here. 
  • A few months ago, O3DE sent out a brand personality survey to learn more about the community’s perception. We are excited to share the results! Read it here.  
  • O3DE will have a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at SIGGRAH on July 29 presented by Galib Arrieta, Open Source Developer. Add this to your schedule here. You must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend visit the complete schedule for the ASWF Open Source Days. Register here. 

Open Mainframe Project

  • Open Mainframe Project recently announced its Summer Mentorship Program. With more than 1,600+ applicants reviewed - meet the 14 mentees and the 20 mentors from IBM, Broadcom, SUSE, Red Hat, Kyndryl, Vicom Infinity and Hitachi Vantara who will be working closely with them on COBOL Programming Course, Feilong, Galasa, Mainframe Open Education, Modernization Working Group, Software Discovery Tool and Zowe. Learn more here.
  • Open Mainframe Project hosted a webinar on May 23 to celebrate the mainframe and discuss what’s next. We took a look back at the fantastic innovations that have powered the IBM Z mainframe platform from its beginnings 60 years ago, which includes some of the folks who have shaped and witnessed the platform as well as those who are leading the charge into the next 60 years. Watch the video here.
  • This year, for the first-time ever, Open Mainframe Project will have a full stream at GSE UK;s annual in-person conference, which takes place on November 4-7, 2024 at Whittlebury Hall, Towcester. This is a new stream at the conference focusing on open source on the mainframe. Learn more or submit a speaking abstract by June 28. 
  • In this episode of the “I am a Mainframer” podcast, host Steven Dickens, Vice President and Practice Lead at the Futurum Group, chats with Jessielaine “Jelly” Punongbayan, Tech Advocate and Senior Support Specialist at Dynatrace. Jessielaine recounts her inspiring journey as a COBOL programmer, beginning in the Philippines and expanding to various countries worldwide. She highlights the invaluable support from mentors and the mainframe community, shedding light on the unique advantages and vast opportunities within the mainframe industry. Listen to the podcast or watch the video. 
  • Derek Britton, Chair of the Open Mainframe Project’s COBOL Working Group, penned an article with quotes from industry leaders about why the IBM’s mainframe is the last surviving supersize server on the market. Read the Enterprise Tech Journal article. 

Open Programmable Infrastructure

  • Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project is looking for a mentee for the Summer! Mentors Sridhar Rao, Senior Technical Community Architect (Networking and Edge) at the Linux Foundation, and Boris Glimcher, Distringuished Engineer at Dell Technologies, are excited to get started on monitoring DPU/IPUs and developing plugins and dashboards. Learn more about the mentorship and apply at LFX.  

OpenAPI

OpenPOWER Foundation

  • OpenPOWER Foundation welcomes a new Platinum member, Solid Silicon. A fabless semiconductor company based in Colorado, US, developing next generation POWER ISA compliant chips from embedded/IoT all the way to high performance Data Center servers. 
  • Following on from the successful NA OSS Mini Summit, please join us for Open Hardware Mini Summit EU, hosted by OpenPOWER, CHIPS Alliance, and RISC-V on Thursday, September 19 in Vienna Austria. The CFP is open now until June 30th. Please submit your talk here!
  • OpenPOWER provided key talk on “Large Memory Server Design” showcasing open collaboration with our member organizations at the OCP EU event. This is a first in developing a next generation data center server capable of handling up to 16TB of memory in a 2U system. 

OpenJS Foundation

  • We announced the new Ecosystem Sustainability Program! This partner program will support the security and sustainability of the JavaScript and web ecosystem by providing commercial services for security fixes to OpenJS-hosted projects. Thank you to our friends at HeroDevs for being our first partner.
  • Node.js turned 15 years old! Since then, we’ve seen over 2 billion downloads in the last year, and have shipped new version every six months since 2015.
  • Check out the latest release of vis.gl/react-google-maps v1.0. This library bridges the gap between React.js framework and the extensive capabilities of the Google Maps JavaScript API.
  • Happy project graduation to Jest! After completing all of the necessary requirements, Jest has graduated to an at-large project at the OpenJS Foundation.

OpenSSF

  • SOSS Fusion (October 22-23) in Atlanta: We're accepting submissions for the Call for Proposals on topics like OSPOs, public policy, dependencies, secure baselines, digital public goods & more! Apply by July 12: CFP
  • Introducing our new co-host for "What’s in the SOSS?" podcast, Christopher Robinson (CRob). The latest episode features his day-to-day activities, podcast vision, and advice for those entering cybersecurity. Listen here.
  • Watch the GUAC Tech Talk to gain insights into the project’s recent release, roadmap plans, and learn how you can contribute to this innovative tool. 
  • Open Source Summit EU (September 16-18): Delve into the future of open source innovation at the Open Source Summit, where developers, technologists, and community leaders collaborate on groundbreaking ideas.
  • SOSS Community Day Europe (September 19, Austria Center Vienna): Join us for the Secure Open Source Software Community Day, where security experts and open source enthusiasts gather to exchange ideas.
  • Read the "OSS Security Adventure" as we delve into our impactful presence at the SOSS Policy Summit in Brussels, the RSA Conference in San Francisco, and our engaging meetup in Tokyo.
  • Empower your software development with OpenSSF's free "Developing Secure Software" course, available now! Dive into secure software fundamentals at your own pace and earn a recognized certificate. 

Overture Maps Foundation

  • Read Overture's Executive Director Marc's blog on how open map data can become the backbone for Spatial Data Infrastructure.
  • Steering Committee member Mike Harrell (TomTom) recently talked to GeoWeekNews about how industries realized that open map data is the future and the collaborative efforts behind Overture. Read it here. 
  • Listen to Marc discuss the complexity of collaborative mapping on the latest episode of Cloud Unfiltered. Listen on Substack & YouTube.
  • Check out our latest engineering blog that shows you how to wrangle and visualize the new land cover data using our Python command-line tool and lonboard. 

PyTorch Foundation

  • Save the date: Virtual Premiere of the PyTorch Documentary! Join us on June 25 at 10am PT / 1pm ET to watch the livestream of the documentary with some of the key players that have shaped the future of PyTorch. 
  • With PyTorch distributed’s new asynchronous checkpointing feature, developed with feedback from IBM, we show how IBM Research Team is able to implement and reduce effective checkpointing time by a factor of 10-20x. More details in our blog.
  • Learn how to maximize training throughput using PyTorch FSDP and torch.compile in this blog with Meta and IBM. The blog addresses challenges to train using torch.compile, and discusses the numerical parity of compile with no-compile.
  • Accelerate ViTs 1.46x in PyTorch using our new Block Sparse Kernels! The FAIR team at Meta showcased promising results of up to a 1.46x speedup with <2% drop in accuracy on float32 Vision Transformers on A100 GPUs by applying block sparsity on MLP module’s weights.
  • Check out our efficient decoding Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) with low-precision KV cache for LLM inference.
  • Introducing the PyTorch Community blog! A place where we’ll highlight the amazing work being done by our community, like our latest ecosystem tools, depyf and Zeus.
  • In partnership with Intel AI, we explored how PyTorch can better achieve sustainability goals, as described by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Check out how PyTorch is helping with life on land and industry and infrastructure goals.
  • PyTorch Foundation has a new Executive Director! Meet Matt White, a career technologist, researcher and innovator with over 25 years of experience in AI, data, autonomous systems and simulations.

RISC-V

SONiC

  • Interested in speaking or attending a SONiC event? Check out our events page and find out where SONiC community will be in 2024.
  • As the future of IT architecture continues to evolve, enterprises are encountering a growing set of challenges and design factors. Check out how to simplify multi-cloud networking with SONiC virtual gateway on our blog.
  • SONiC China Forum just concluded with exciting announcements on the launch of PhoenixWing initiative. Learn more here and here.

The Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL Foundation)

  • Andrew Richards, CEO of Codeplay, gave a keynote speech at ISC ’24 in Germany (International Supercomputing) “Unlocking the next 35 years of software for HPC and AI”.  Rod Burns, Steering Committee Chair for the UXL Foundation and Samsung’s Bongjun Kim spoke about the UXL Foundation and work they are doing with the oneAPI specification.  Interview with Andrew Richards on the UXL Foundation on Insider HPC.
  • UXL member Fujitsu’s Ragesh Hajela presented at the Linaro Conference to showcase optimization of AI performance by leveraging two of the foundation’s projects - oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN)and oneAPI Data Analytics Library (oneDAL), libraries for advanced high-performance computing applications. Fujitsu successfully ported oneDAL for Arm CPUs, integrating Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (OpenBLAS) library enhancements to achieve remarkable performance gains of up to 40x. Additionally, Fujitsu's contributions included batch-reduced General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) based Just-in-time (JIT) kernels, resulting in up to 9x performance improvements compared to reference kernels. These contributions demonstrated Fujitsu's leadership in enhancing AI framework performance on Arm.  
  • UXL Foundation welcomes new contributor members in May: Akhetonics, Axelera AI, Canspirit AI, Clouds AI, Codasip, Code Reckons, Embecosm, Fixstars Corporation, Flapmax, GMAC Intelligence, Inspire Semiconductor, Market Potential, Mercedes-Benz Research, One Fact Foundation, Untether AI, and Xiangdixian Computing Technology.

Yocto Project

Zephyr

  • If you didn’t make it to Zephyr Developer Summit in April, we’re showcasing the videos on our website each week. This week, we featured Rodrigo Peixoto with Edge-UFAL/Citrinio to share updates about ZBus; Roy Jamil with Ac6 offers a look at Kconfigs and Devicetree; Ederson de Souza with Intel Corporation presents an update for the Zephyr Device Model; Chris Friedt, P.Eng. with Tenstorrent discusses LTSv3 POSIX and David Brown with Linaro shares an update on Rust. Learn more about the Zephyr Roadmap updates or watch here. 
  • If you’re in Paris, France, we invite you to join the next Zephyr Project  Meetup on June 20 at the Ac6 office in Courbevoie. Check out the agenda and secure your spot here.
  • Zephyr RTOS is the Core of Synopsys Silicon Lifecycle Management solution. Marta Plantykow, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Synopsys, shares the details, including a demo that was shown at Embedded World, in this new blog.
  • Antmicro has been developing the Renode Zephyr Dashboard, a CI system combining structured data obtained from the Zephyr RTOS with the Renode simulation framework, running a range of samples on over 470 simulated boards with RISC-V, ARM and other embedded SoCs. In this new article, Antmicro describes the latest expansion of the dashboards even further beyond the earlier advances. Perhaps most importantly, the U-Boot Dashboard now also serves as an additional source of technical data for Renodepedia which uses Renode and structured hardware description data to automatically generate a database of contemporary hardware.

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