The Linux Foundation Welcomes 31 New Members
31 new members join the Linux Foundation from education, security, financial and cloud industries.
Mar 28, 2019, 11:00 ET
SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the addition of 28 Silver members and three Associate members. Linux Foundation members help support the development of shared technology resources, while accelerating their own innovation through open source leadership and participation in some of the world's most successful open source projects including Hyperledger, Kubernetes, Linux, Node.js and ONAP. Linux Foundation member contributions help provide the infrastructure and resources that enable the world's largest open collaboration communities.
Through 2018, on average, a new organization joined the Linux Foundation every day.
"Linux Foundation members understand the importance of collaboration in order to further advance open source and open standards," said Jim Zemlin, executive director, the Linux Foundation. "Innovation no longer happens in silos, and I am looking forward to working with these 31 new members to promote growth across every industry."
In addition to joining the Linux Foundation, many of the new members have joined projects such as Automotive Grade Linux, the Ceph Foundation, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Hyperledger, LF Edge and the Zephyr Project. For a full list of members, visit https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/.
Linux Foundation Silver members contribute to or otherwise support open source communities and projects. New Linux Foundation Silver members who joined recently are:
Associate members of the Linux Foundation include government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to building, sustaining, and using open source technologies. The following organizations are new Linux Foundation Associate members:
With the support of its members, the Linux Foundation hosts open source projects across technologies including networking (ONAP, OPNFV and more), security (Core Infrastructure Initiative), cloud (Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes and more), blockchain (Hyperledger) and more. This collaborative development model is helping technology rapidly advance in a way that benefits individuals and organizations around the world.
Note - The Linux Foundation releases a look back list of new members joining the organization every month.
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