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SAN FRANCISCO, January 19, 2022 —  The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, has announced that SupplyChainSecurityCon, an event launched last fall at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, will be hosted in 2022 as part of Open Source Summit North America, June 21-24, in Austin, TX and virtual.

Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem.

Co-hosted by CNCF and OpenSSF, along with The Linux Foundation, SupplyChainSecurityCon will gather security practitioners, open source developers, and others interested in software supply chain security to explore the security threats affecting the software supply chain, share best practices and mitigation tactics, and increase knowledge about how to best secure open source software.  

SupplyChainSecurityCon will be one of thirteen events held under the Open Source Summit North America 2022 umbrella. As the open source ecosystem continues to evolve, Open Source Summit will do so as well, as a conference umbrella composed of a collection of events that will always cover the most important projects, technologies and topics in open source today – in one place.

Open Source Summit North America 2022 is comprised of the following events:

LinuxCon – the precursor to OS Summit and the event for Linux developers

SupplyChainSecurityCon – addressing supply chain security

CloudOpen – covering cloud infrastructure and cloud native for developers

OSPOCon – for those working in open source program offices

Embedded Linux Conference – the premier vendor-neutral technical conference for developers working on embedded Linux since 2005

Critical Software Summit – for developers working to increase dependability of OS projects in safety, mission and business critical applications

ContainerCon – for those adopting containerization to further automation, portability and efficiency

Community Leadership Conference – where community leaders gather to share, learn and collaborate with each other

Embedded IoT Summit – for developers working on IoT for embedded devices across open source

Emerging OS Forum – where to find out about the latest trends and technologies touching open source

Open AI + Data Forum – a forum to drive open source innovation in the AI, ML, DL, and Data domains

Diversity Empowerment Summit – a forum for driving more diversity and inclusion in open source communities

Open Source On-Ramp – for developers new to open source

Save the Date.
Open Source Summit will be held on the following dates and locations:

Open Source Summit North America: June 21-24 • Austin, Texas, USAOpen Source Summit Europe: September 13-16 • Dublin, IrelandOpen Source Summit Japan: December 5-6 • Yokohama, Japan

Additional locations to be announced shortly. Registration will open in February 2022.

Submit to Speak.
The Call for Proposals for Open Source Summit North America events and Open Source Summit Europe events are now open. View suggested topics and submit talks for all events at the links provided.

The Linux Foundation strongly values the need to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in open source, and a great place for that to begin is on a conference stage. We encourage those from all marginalized communities to submit to speak. We also welcome and encourage first-time speakers to submit.

Sponsor.
Open Source Summit North America 2022 is made possible thanks to our sponsors, including Diamond Sponsor: Google, and Gold Sponsors: InfluxData and Styra. Open Source Summit Europe 2022 is made possible thanks to our sponsors, including Diamond Sponsor: Google, and Gold Sponsor: Styra. For information on becoming an event sponsor, click here or email us.

Press
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WASHINGTON (January 13, 2022) Today marks an important moment in the Linux Foundation’s history of engagement with public sector organizations. The White House convened an important cross-section of the Open Source developer and commercial ecosystem along with leaders and experts of many U.S. federal agencies to identify the challenges present in the open source software supply chain and share ideas on ways to mitigate risk and enhance resilience.

At the meeting, the Linux Foundation and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) represented their hundreds of communities and projects by highlighting collective cybersecurity efforts and sharing their intent to work with the administration across public and private sectors.

Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin said, “Safeguarding critical infrastructure includes securing the software that runs its banking, energy, defense, healthcare, and technology systems. When the security of a widely-used open source component or application is compromised, every company, every country, and every community is impacted. This isn’t a problem unique to the US government; it’s a global concern. We applaud the US government’s leadership in facilitating a stronger focus on open source software security and look forward to collaborating with the global ecosystem to make progress. In particular, the OpenSSF is our key initiative to address the broad set of open source software supply chain challenges, and it was very heartening to hear our work identified and endorsed by other participants in the meeting as a basis for further collaboration.” 

Executive Director of the Open Source Security Foundation, Brian Behlendorf commented, “During today’s meeting, we shared a set of key opportunities where, with sufficient commitments from everyone, we could make a substantial impact on the critical endeavors needed to protect and improve the security of our software supply chains. The open source ecosystem will need to work together to further cybersecurity research, training, analysis, and remediation of defects found in critical open source software projects. These plans were met with positive feedback and a growing, collective commitment to take meaningful action. Following the recent log4j crisis, the time has never been more pressing for public and private collaboration to ensure that open source software components and the software supply chains they flow through demonstrate the highest cybersecurity integrity.”

Brian continued, “Through efforts such as our working groups on Best Practices, Identifying Critical Projects, Metrics and Scorecards, Project Sigstore, and more to be announced soon, the OpenSSF has already had an impact on many of the key areas discussed during today’s meeting. We are ready to further these efforts and welcome all new participants and resources that this conversation and further such conversations may bring.”

About the Linux Foundation 

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,800 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, Hyperledger, RISC-V, and more.  The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at https://www.linuxfoundation.org/

About the OpenSSF

The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration that brings together leaders to improve the security of open source software (OSS) by building a broader community, targeted initiatives, and best practices. The OpenSSF brings together open source security initiatives under one foundation.

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