The foundation provides a set of services and best practices to enable vendor-neutral collaboration on open source technology. The Eclipse Foundation hosts a large community with hundreds of open source projects, nearly 1,400 committers as members, and eight collaborative working groups, including Internet of Things, LocationTech, and Science. It helps the Drupal community with funding, infrastructure, education, promotion, distribution, and online collaboration. The Drupal Association fosters and supports the Drupal content management software project. It is an independent, self-governing, meritocratic entity, created by former leaders of the Community, in the form of a charitable foundation under German law (gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts). The Document Foundation is the home of the LibreOffice free and open source office suite. Its events are Software Freedom Day, Document Freedom Day, Hardware Freedom Day, and Education Freedom Day. A project of the Linux Foundation, CNCF hosts the Kubernetes cloud orchestration system and other cloud-native open source projects.ĭigital Freedom Foundation sponsors annual events to promote free software, hardware, and content. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's (CNCF) mission is to promote adoption of distributed computing and "cloud-native" systems, which it defines as being container packaged, dynamically managed, and microservices oriented. The foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors' potential legal exposure. The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects. These are some we think you should know about. There are quite a number of not-for-profit and charitable organizations supporting the open source software movement.
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