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Linux Foundation Newsletter: May 2024

Written by The Linux Foundation | May 13, 2024 8:30:35 PM

We are excited to present the latest updates and highlights from the Linux Foundation in our May newsletter. In this month’s edition–project announcements, two important surveys in the field, exclusive training discounts, upcoming event details, and much more. This is a great way to actively engage with our vibrant community.

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LF Event Highlight 

AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit Europe goes LIVE 19-22 June in Paris! 

 

This is a must-attend event for anyone looking to shape the trajectory of the ever-changing open source generative AI and machine learning landscape. Join us for hands-on sessions, robust technical conversations, and the collective expertise that is paving a path for innovation, security, and transparency in AI! View the full schedule here. 

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New project announcements

The HSP will provide a neutral space for pivotal projects in the high performance computing (HPC) ecosystem, enabling industry, academia, and government entities to collaborate on the scientific software stack. Through a series of technical projects, HPSF aims to build, promote, and advance a portable core software stack for HPC by increasing adoption, lowering barriers to contribution, and supporting development efforts. To learn more about the HPSF, including how to get involved, contribute, and become a member, please visit hpsf.io.

Paraglider is a new open source initiative to simplify the setup and management of networks both within a cloud and across multiple clouds. Launched in collaboration with Aarna Networks, Broadcom, Google Cloud, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Uber, and UC Berkeley, Paraglider is set to redefine how cloud customers provision and manage their networks across multiple cloud providers. To learn more about Paraglider and how to participate, please visit the project's website and GitHub repository.

LF Research: Two surveys in the field

Support our research, and in turn, support your community! 

For the first 300 complete responses of each survey, LF Research will donate to the Linux Foundation’s Travel Fund, up to a cap of $3,000.00 USD. This will support our ability to fund diverse open source contributors to attend events around the world. 

We are asking cloud native community members to comment on how your organization manages the security of its cloud native applications. It should take about 5 minutes of your time. As a thank you for participating, once you complete the survey, you will receive a 25% discount on registration to CloudNativeSecurityCon, taking place June 26-24, 2024 in Seattle. 

 

The Linux Foundation is running its second State of Open Standards study, examining how and why different organizations are involved in open standards adoption and contribution. This survey should only take 10 minutes of your time! Please feel free to share this link with your colleagues.  

 

LF Europe: Community highlights

Stay informed with the latest on open source events, policies, and opportunities across Europe!

  • Open Source Summit Europe: Join us in Austria September 16–18, 2024, for the Open Source Summit Europe. Open Source Summit Europe is the key gathering place to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable ecosystem. This conference umbrella covers the most important technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source today.
  • Community over code: Join Ana Jiménez Santamaría and Mirko Boehm as they discuss EU policies affecting open source specialists in OSPOs.
  • NGI Workshop: Attend our one-day workshop on June 5th in Amsterdam, hosted by NGI Commons. Delve into the role of digital commons in European digital policy and collaborate on policy priorities.
  • World of Open Source - Global Spotlight Survey: Participate in our survey to help us understand the dynamics of open source across regions and industries. It only takes 15 minutes! Register by August 31, 2024, to receive a 30% discount on Linux Foundation e-learning courses.

To stay updated with what we’re up to at LF Europe, subscribe to our monthly newsletter and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn & Discord.

Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news

Community at Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management & BPF Summit 2024

Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)

  • The second OpenUSD release of 2024 is here! Go inside v24.05 and see what stands out in our latest blog. 

CAMARA

  • CAMARA was onsite at Open Networking & Edge Summit San Jose, CA, April 29- May1. Activity included:
    •  A keynote presentation from member organization Verizon, entitled “Unleashing the Potential of Network APIs,” which included discussion of Verizon’s use of CAMARA. 
    • The event also featured a session overview of CAMARA. Recordings of both presentations will be available shortly. 
  • A new “Voices of CAMARA” video was published, featuring Docomo CTO Magnus Olden, and is available on the project’s new YouTube channel. 
  • CAMARA community member, CPaaS Acceleration Alliance, published a blog outlining its takeaways and onsite experience at ONE Summit, including impressions of network APIs, among other trends in open networking. 
  • OpenTelco LATAM Summit, a virtual event hosted by Telesemana, will feature a CAMARA keynote from community leader, Markus Kummerle of DT, June 26-27. 
  • CAMARA will be onsite at DTW Ignite in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18-20, to host a community Meet-and-Greet. Details available soon. 

CHIPS Alliance

  • April 15-18, 2024 Seattle: Chips Alliance, Open Power, RISC-V, and Zephyr premiered an open source hardware program as part of the recent North America Open Source Summit.  A mini hardware open summit was held with 10 informative technical presentations, followed by 3 days of great booth traffic for all thanks to the innovative passport system where participants who recorded stamps from our booths were entered into a Lego prize drawing each day.  We were pleased with the high level of interest in the potential of accelerated hardware development by collaboration. 
  • April 16, 2024: We are pleased to announce with our partner Open Compute Project--a key event in collaborative open source hardware development between our members AMD, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, AMI and many others for a root of trust embeddable macro into chips.  The macro will be used by silicon developers to self-attest the security integrity of cloud datacenters.  This effort attests to the potential and power of collaborative hardware development.

Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)

  • The community welcomes Ankur Banerjee to the Helm of DIF TSC: DIF is excited to announce that Ankur Banerjee has been elected as the new co-chair of the DIF Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Ankur plays an increasingly critical role at DIF, and last year he was elected to the DIF Steering Committee. He joins current co-chair Andor Kesselman, and together they are bound to drive DIF's mission forward with renewed vigor and vision. Learn more. 
  • DIF Labs: DIF will soon roll out the "Labs" Working Group. This WG is focused on bringing decentralized identity into real-world applications and uses. We're having a preliminary meeting for people interested in joining this effort. We're collecting meeting time preferences here and we'll follow up with more details.

Delta Lake

  • We are excited to announce the release of Delta Lake 3.2.0! 🎉 This release includes several exciting new features and improvements. Delta Spark 3.2.0 is built on Apache Spark™ 3.5. Similar to Apache Spark, we have released Maven artifacts for both Scala 2.12 and Scala 2.13. View the full release notes.
  • Join us for the next Delta Lake Community Meetup on Wednesday, May 22nd at 9AM PST / 12PM EST. We will cover the latest features and improvements in Delta Lake 3.2, walk through the Delta Lake + Pandas integration, discuss what's next for Delta Lake, and more. Register here!
  • Data+AI Summit returns to San Francisco June 10-14. There will be a variety of Delta Lake sessions covering everything from the Delta Lake roadmap, data processing and management, Delta Uniform, and so much more. There is something for everyone at Data+AI Summit! Register
  • Daft, a distributed dataframe library for Python, has recently added support for distributed and parallel reads of Delta Lake tables, enabling high throughput reading from your lakehouse. Learn more about the Daft Delta Lake integration.
  • Rivian recently expanded the Delta Lake ecosystem with Delta-Go. In this blog, learn about the new open-source Delta-Go connector - a key component of Rivian's architecture to ingest high volumes of real-time data in an efficient and cost-effective way.

DENT

  • DENT will attend DORS/CLUC 2024 held in Zagreb, Croatia from 16–17 May next week.
  • DENT released a member spotlight highlighting Edgecore Networks, as explained by Edgecore Networks Head of Engineering Larry Ho. This is the second in a series of posts highlighting project members. Sartura, PLVision, and Keysight Technologies will be featured in subsequent posts.
  • DENT published a blog post covering its participation as an Open Source Partner at the 2024 OCP Regional Summit recently held in Lisbon, Portugal.

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.

Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA)

  • In the latest ELISA Seminar series, Florian Gilcher, Managing Director at Ferrous Systems GmbH, presented about "Ferrocene: Qualifying the Rust Compiler out in the open." He shared insight about qualifying the Ferrocene compiler toolchain using fully open source tools as well as a focus on the conditions that enabled the Ferrocene project to build a feedback loop with the Rust project and how they may inform your approach towards other FOSS projects. Watch here.
  • The ELISA community will gather together in Lund, Sweden for a workshop on June 4-5. There are just a few in-person spots left - register today and join representatives from Volvo, Red Hat, NVIDIA, Magna International, SUSE, Canonical, Bosch, the Linux Foundation and more. Check out the schedule and presentations. 

FinOps Foundation

FINOS

  • We launched our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Readiness Special Interest Group (SIG), a collaboration between industry leaders including Citi, Scott Logic, Morgan Stanley, ControlPlane Microsoft, London Stock Exchange Group, Publicis Sapient, Databricks, EPAM and Provectus. Read the full press release and learn more in the blog post.
    • In case you missed it, view the recording of the FINOS All Community Call for an overview of the AI SIG, a special announcement from BlackRock, the latest updates on FINOS projects and much more! Watch the recording here.
  • Upcoming events:
    • May 21st: Open Source in Finance Meetup in Boston - DEI SIG Edition, led by FINOS Ambassador Paula Paul.  Register here.
    • June 26th: Open Source in Finance Forum in London - Schedule is live. Register here. If you are a member of FINOS, you receive a free pass - please reach out to osff@finos.org for your code. If you are not a FINOS member, here’s a code for 20% off your ticket: OSFFL24LF20

Hyperledger Foundation

  • Cointelegraph featured an interview with Hyperledger Foundation Executive Director Daniela Barbosa from Paris Blockchain Week on Why financial infrastructure needs to be open-source.
  • As part of an effort to increase sustainability in the production of clothes, BASF is leveraging a Hyperledger-based traceability platform for clothing producers to track data such as carbon footprint across their supply chains
  • Hyperledger Besu maintainer Matthew Whitehead makes the case for why Hyperledger Besu is the top choice for financial use cases in this blog post.
  • The Hyperledger Telecom SIG released a new solution brief introducing Telecom Decentralized Identity Network (TDIDN), a new way to improve identity management using decentralized identifiers (DID) and blockchain.
  • The next installments of the Meet the Maintainers series on the Hyperledger Foundation blog features three technical leaders from the core Hyperledger Fabric community: David Enyeart, IBM, Yacov Manevich, IBM, and Tatsuya Sato, Hitachi, Ltd.
  • Hyperledger Cacti has been selected as the interoperability framework for Portugal's nationwide Blockchain.PT coalition.
  • For more updates from Hyperledger Foundation, check out the current and past issues of Hyperledger Horizons.

LF AI & Data

LF Edge

  • LF Edge was out in full force during Open Networking & Edge (ONE) Summit in San Jose, CA, April 29-May 1. In addition to a robust collection of breakout sessions, activity included:
  • Member organization ZEDEDA hosted an offsite reception & panel discussion, “Let’s Taco ‘Bout Edge,” alongside ONE Summit. The panel featured edge thought leaders David Booz of IBM; Oguz Sunay of Intel; and Erik Nordmark of ZEDEDA. 
  • LF Edge’s Akrino project recently published a white paper in collaboration with IWON, “Computing Infrastructure into the 2030s: Convergence of LF Edge and IOWN GF DCI platforms,” now available for free download. 

LF Energy

  • LF Energy Summit takes place 5-6 September in Brussels. Speaking proposals are being accepted through 19 May, and sponsorship opportunities are also available.
  • Hydro-Québec has demonstrated its commitment to open source for the energy transition with membership in LF Energy. This is the first North American electric utility to join LF Energy.
  • LF Energy OperatorFabric v 4.3.0-RC.RELEASE is now available with improved UI, geographic, and administration features.
  • LF Energy has announced new open source initiatives for substation digitalization and energy AI and data, as well as new projects focused on making better use of open data to address challenges in the energy transition, modeling for extreme weather events, and digital substations.
  • LF Energy Executive Director Alex Thornton spoke to TFIR about digitalization efforts to tackle decarbonization challenges.
  • The Journal of Environmental Modeling and Software has published a paper on LF Energy’s covXtreme: MATLAB software for non-stationary penalised piecewise constant marginal and conditional extreme value models.
  • Forbes spoke with LF Energy member Utilidata about how AI is sharpening the grid’s edge.
  • The Energistrategi podcast interviewed LF Energy Ambassador Jonas van den Bogaard of Alliander about the innovation necessary to understand how power grids can benefit from improved management to not only increase production but also to correctly direct flexibility.

LF Networking

  • LF Networking hosted its flagship event, Open Networking & Edge (ONE) Summit,  April 29-May 1 in San Jose, CA. The successful event contained some of the strongest content yet, along with close to 500 registrations, 80+ speakers, 5 co-located events from across the ecosystem, and dozens of sessions. Videos will be available in the coming weeks.
    • During ONE Summit, LF Networking announced:
    • LFN Developer & Testing Forum took place directly following ONE Summit, a chance for ecosystem developers to gather in person to plan, strategize, and discuss strategy and releases moving forward. Close to 90 developers came together in San Jose to discuss Nephio, ONAP, Anuket, CNTi, OpenDaylight and more. Sessions slides are posted online and videos will be available soon.
      Ecosystem developers gather at the LFN Developer & Testing Forum
  • Fierce Networks published an article highlighting LFN member company, Walmart’s, use of open source (and Linux Foundation projects) across its vast networks, based on a ONE Summit keynote from Dave Temkin, Walmart VP infrastructure.

Open 3D Foundation

  • The O3DE 23.10.3 release is now live! This point release focuses on bug fixes for the Document Property Editor (DPE), crashes across Windows and Linux, optimization for decals, minor improvements for editor startup times, address control input inconsistencies, quality of life improvements for the Asset Browser, and resolves some build issues with clang versions. Learn more. 

Open Mainframe Project 

  • Open Mainframe Project will be a part of IBM’s TechXchange Conference, which takes place on October 21-24 in Las Vegas, again this year. More than 5,000 technical attendees will be on-site to engage, network and attend the more than 1,000 sessions, demos, instructor-led labs and roadmap discussions. The Open Mainframe Project will be featured as part of the Pre-Conference Day/ User Group Meetups being held on Monday, October 21. Learn more about the recently launched CFP. Submit your talks here by June 15.
  • Open Mainframe’s Mainframe Open Education project is looking for students to participate in their recently launched Student User Group to help ensure they are creating and maintaining the best resources and tools. Learn more here or watch the May video.
  • Louisa Seers, Product Manager at IBM, and Caroline McNamara, Content developer at IBM, share the details about what Galasa, an open source deep integration test framework, has been up to in Q1. Read more about the milestones and achievements.  

Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project

  • The Open Programmable Infrastructure Project, a community-driven initiative focused on creating a standards-based open ecosystem for next-generation architectures and frameworks based on Data Processing Units (DPUs) and Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) technology, announces a new resource lab to test and explore a common provisioning and lifecycle management framework. The new lab will be initially used for CI/CD operations as the project builds and tests OPI-related code. The Lab will also help project members create demos and proofs of concept as new use cases are explored. OPI Project announced this at ONE Sumit in San Jose on April 20-May 1. Learn more.

    OPI Project members at ONE Summit

OpenJS Foundation

  • Node.js 22 is now available. This release features require()ing ESM graphs, WebSocket client, updates of the V8 JavaScript engine, and more.
  • Happy 20th anniversary to OpenJS project Dojo! In April 2004, Dojo was released and became one of the pioneering JavaScript libraries aimed at simplifying and standardizing web development. Read our blog for more about their history and progress.
  • Help shape the future of Node.js by taking our Next 10 survey.
  • We announced our latest additions to the OpenJS Foundation Board of Directors! They are filling spots on the Gold, Silver and Community level. We’re thrilled to have their expertise at the foundation.

OpenSSF

  • 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 converge to share knowledge, solve challenges, and 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 and drive progress in creating safer software environments.
  • Stay ahead of cybersecurity threats with OpenSSF's Tech Talk on GUAC, a cutting-edge tool designed to enhance software supply chain security. Learn how you can proactively identify vulnerabilities and manage risks with GUAC by joining us on June 6 at 10:00 AM PT. Register now to secure your spot!
  • The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) announced that internationally renowned technologist Bruce Schneier will serve as the keynote speaker for its inaugural Secure Open Source Software (SOSS) Fusion Conference 2024. Early registration is open for the event, which will take place from Oct. 22 – 23, 2024, in Atlanta, GA.
  • Listen to the “What’s in the SOSS?” Podcast. Get a taste of all the ingredients that make up secure open source software (SOSS) by listening to the podcast. 
  • The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has developed a free course for software developers, DevOps engineers, security engineers, and software maintainers on how to use Sigstore’s toolkit to its full potential. The course: Securing Your Software Supply Chain with Sigstore (LFS182) is available on the Linux Foundation Training & Certification platform and is designed with end users of Sigstore tooling in mind. Enroll now!

Overture Maps Foundation

  • Overture data is now available on BigQuery and Snowflake, allowing direct access and simplified integration into your existing workflows. Learn more.
  • Our beta release is out, showcasing improved query speeds and a more easy-to-use schema for our administrative boundary data. Read our latest blog to learn what's new in the beta release and discover how our community plays a vital role in our continuous improvement.
  • Read about our beta release in VentureBeat, discussing how we're developing reliable and interoperable open datasets and thier potential to power modern mapping. 
  • This Diginomica article discusses how Overture is "set to give everyone else a leg up" by collaboratively creating open map data.
  • Read this Forbes article where Marc discusses Overture, the impact of open data, and its potential to catch on.

PyTorch Foundation

  • PyTorch 2.3 is here! This release offers support for user-defined Triton kernels in torch.compile, allowing for users to migrate their own Triton kernels from eager without experiencing performance regressions or graph breaks.
  • We recently introduced ExecuTorch Alpha, focused on deploying large language models and large ML models to the edge, stabilizing the API surface, and improving installation processes.
  • Try out the new speculative decoding approach from IBM Research, with end-to-end recipes to train your own speculators.
  • Join us June 4-20 for our third annual PyTorch Docathon! Similar to a hackathon, the docathon is dedicated to enhancing the quality of the PyTorch documentation with the help of our community. Registration is now open.
  • Accelerate Llama3 FP8 Inference with Triton Kernels. The PyTorch teams at Meta and IBM presented an optimized Triton FP8 GEMM kernel TK-GEMM, which leverages SplitK parallelization.
  • Join us for a PyTorch Meetup in Seattle on May 23! We'll have technical talks from Meta, Microsoft and Google + discussion and networking time. Register today.
  • The Call for Proposals for the PyTorch Conference is still open! Submit your talk by June 7 to be considered. Additionally, early bird registration is still available, until July 12.

RISC-V

  • RISC-V Summit is back in Santa Clara, California on the 22nd - 23rd October! The global RISC-V community – including technical, industry, domain, ecosystem and special interest groups – will meet to share technology breakthroughs, industry milestones, and case studies, as well as to network and build relationships. Sponsorship and registration are now open!
  • RISC-V Summit Europe takes place in Munich on the 24th - 28th June, connecting the European ecosystem, from industry and government, to research, academia and support. Browse the program and confirmed presentations!
  • The RISC-V stand at Embedded World featured an amazing range of technologies and demonstrations. View the talks and interviews from our on stand theater on the RISC-V YouTube channel.
  • Find out the latest news from our Horizontal Committees, ISA Committees, Task Groups, and Special Interest Groups in our latest Technical Newsletter. 
  • Discover our continuously updated RISC-V Landscape, a living document that provides invaluable insights into the diverse RISC-V ecosystem.

SONiC

Trust Over IP (ToIP) Foundation

Ultra Ethernet Consortium

  • Published the blog "UEC Progresses Towards v1.0 Set of Specifications" by The Ultra Ethernet Consortium.
  • Issued a press release on the Ultra Ethernet Consortium's exponential growth in support of Ethernet for high-performance AI and HPC networking.
  • Keep an eye on our website to see who's joining UEC as new members. 
  • Check out our testimonial page to hear what members are saying about us.

Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL)

  • Andy Wafaa and Alison Richards attended the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit in Seattle.  Alison gave a talk “Accelerate Together with Industry Alliances” using the UXL Foundation as an example.  
  • The Linux Foundation hosted a UXL Community Webinar “Drive an Open Standard Software Ecosystem” on April 30 with 180 registrants and 79 attendees. 
  • UXL Foundation welcomed the following new contributing members:  Akhetonics, Axelera, CanSpirit AI, CloudsAI, Codasip, Code Reckons, Embecosm, Fixstars,  FlapMax, GMAC Intelligence, Market Potential, Mercedes-Benz Research, One Fact Foundation and XIANGDIXIAN Computing Technology.
  • UXL Foundation first newsletter published.
  • The UXL Foundation will be present at ISC ‘24 in Hamburg with tutorials and presentations.  Join Andrew Richards, CEO of Codeplay, to hear about “Unlocking the Next 35 Years of Software for HPC and AI”, on Tuesday, May 14 at 6:45 pm in Hall 4.  Rod Burns from the UXL Foundation and Bongjun Kim, Staff Researcher, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, will participate in the keynote. 
  • The UXL Foundation will also be present at Linaro Fest where Ragesh Hajela, Software Engineering Manager from Fujitsu, will present a session “Optimising oneDAL and oneDNN for Arm CPUs to accelerate AI workloads”. Here is a link to the session. 

Zephyr

  • The Zephyr Developer Summit, hosted in Seattle on April 16-18. If you didn’t make it to the event, you can now watch the presentations on EOSS/ZDS playlist on the Zephyr Youtube Channel. 

    Zephyr leaders at the Meet the Maintainers session at ZDS

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