The Linux Foundation Member Summit is the annual gathering for Linux Foundation member organizations taking place in Napa, California on November 19-21.
An annual gathering for Linux Foundation members that fosters collaboration, innovation, and partnerships among the leading projects and organizations working to drive digital transformation with open source technologies. It is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance open source strategy, implementation, and investment in their organizations and learn how to collaboratively manage the largest shared technology investment of our time.
ELISA Ambassador Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation, will be on-site to give a few presentations including:
Tuesday, November 19 at 3-3:30 pm PST – Zephyr: Overview and Roadmap
This session will provide an overview of the project’s accomplishments to date, and provide a roadmap of what is being planned for 2025. Zephyr project is now the 5th most active project hosted by the Linux Foundation. Each release sees about 30% new contributors, and these contributors are resulting in around 3 changes per hour in the code base. Products as diverse as Chromebooks, to Wind Turbines, to Hearings Aids, and Pet Trackers are being built with Zephyr. Learn about the open source and security best practices that have been applied to Zephyr over the years, and why it is now one of the most active open source projects at the Linux Foundation. Add it to your schedule here.
Thursday, November 21 at 12-12:30 pm – SPDX: From Software to Systems
Kate will be joined by Gary O’Neall, Founder and Principal Consultant at Source Auditor. The “Software” Product Data Exchange was created in 2010 to provide machine and human readable metadata for licensing information to consumers of open source software. Over the years, the SPDX community has added support for a wide range of additional use cases. Complex software component interactions between open source and proprietary as well as the requirements to support SBOMs optimized for security risk management have been driving forces for many of the changes. With the SPDX 3.0 release and work being done for the upcoming SPDX 3.1 release, the scope of SPDX has expanded beyond software to entire systems including datasets, AI models, services and hardware. This will enable consumers to satisfy additional use cases in areas like product safety and export regulation compliance. With the SPDX 3.0, we’ve renamed SPDX from “Software” Product Data Exchange to “System” Product Data Exchange to better reflect where the project is aiming. In this talk, we’ll go over changes we’ve made to the SPDX model to support systems, the additional profiles that are focused on system level problems and what this means to both the producers and consumers of SPDX data. Add it to your schedule here.
The Linux Foundation Member Summit is an invitation-only event for member companies of The Linux Foundation. Invitation codes have been sent to member companies for the event. If you are a member company and need information regarding your invitation code, please contact Event Support.
