Collaborate Disseminate
Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of the lead developers of Django, writes in a long post that he says has come from a place of frustration: […] Instead, every time a maintainer finds a way to get paid, people show up to criticize and complain. Non-OSI licenses… Continue reading ‘Paying People To Work on Open Source is Good Actually’
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: Back in 2022 Cloudflare announced they were ditching Nginx for an in-house, Rust-written software called Pingora. Today Cloudflare is open-sourcing the Pingora framework. Cloudflare announced today that they have o… Continue reading Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source
“Documentation authors at Canonical have launched the Open Documentation Academy to offer an easy way to get started contributing to open-source projects,” writes longtime Slashdot reader tykev. From the blog post: Open and inclusive collaboration, and… Continue reading ‘Open Documentation Academy’ Offers On-Ramp To OSS
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: With Valve’s release today of the Steam Audio SDK 4.5.2 they have made the software development kit fully open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. Steam Audio 4.5.2 may not sound exciting in the context of a versio… Continue reading Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License
By 2022 the VC firm Sequoia Capital had about $85 billion in assets under management, according to Wikipedia. Its successful investments include Google, Apple, PayPal, Zoom, and Nvidia.
And now the VC firm “plans to fund up to three open source softw… Continue reading VC Firm Sequoia Capital Begins Funding More Open Source Fellowships
From a blog post by Greg Kroah-Hartman:
As was recently announced, the Linux kernel project has been accepted as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for vulnerabilities found in Linux.
This is a trend, of more open source projects taking over the haphaz… Continue reading Linux Becomes a CVE Numbering Authority (Like Curl and Python). Is This a Turning Point?
Michael Larabel writes via Phoronix: While there have been efforts by AMD over the years to make it easier to port codebases targeting NVIDIA’s CUDA API to run atop HIP/ROCm, it still requires work on the part of developers. The tooling has improved su… Continue reading AMD’s CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm Is Now Open Source
Consider CVE-2023-21385 which was discovered in AOSP. In this security bulletin they mentioned that this issue was fixed. Is there any chance to know what kind of fix was given to this CVE (Code changes done) that I can take a look at as i… Continue reading How do I know what kind of code fix was given to a specific CVE for Android [migrated]
Carl Franzen reports via VentureBeat: Hugging Face, the New York City-based startup that offers a popular, developer-focused repository for open source AI code and frameworks (and hosted last year’s “Woodstock of AI”), today announced the launch of thi… Continue reading Hugging Face Launches Open Source AI Assistant Maker To Rival OpenAI’s Custom GPTs
The non-profit Linux Foundation Energy hopes to develop energy-sector solutions (including standards, specifications, and software) supporting rapid decarbonization by collaborating with industry stakeholders.
And now they’re involved in a new partne… Continue reading ‘Linux Foundation Energy’ Partners With US Government on Interoperability of America’s EV Charging