OpenSSF Scorecard Audit is Complete!

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of OpenSSF Scorecard. OpenSSF Scorecard is an open source automated testing resource to help projects continually assess security risks. With the help of ADA Logics and the OpenSSF, this project can continue to provide…

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OSTIF Recieves a Fifth Yearly Donation from DuckDuckGo!

The team at OSTIF is honored and excited to announce that for a fifth consecutive year we are a recipient of the DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations Program. The privilege of receiving this donation a fifth time is not lost on us, and reinforces that our mission is being carried out effectively…

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GNU libmicrohttpd2 Audit Complete!

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of GNU libmicrohttpd2. GNU libmicrohttpd2 is an open source library that “embeds a HTTP or HTTPS daemon into host applications.”* With the help of ADA Logics and the Sovereign Tech Agency, this project has…

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Open Source Summit and OpenSSF Community Days EU 2025 Reflection

Reflection by Communications, Operations, and Community Manager Helen Woeste Amir, Derek, and I joined a few thousand open source community members in Amsterdam for the Open Source Summit EU and attached OpenSSF Community Day. While Derek and Amir are no strangers to conferences, this was only my second OS Summit…

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The Bridge to Improving Security: How OSTIF Helps Foundations

Over the duration of multiple programs with funders, we’ve heard firsthand their needs. Executives know they have the budget and desire to fund security, but need help with how to start generating outcomes. To create and sustain open source security programs requires dedicated administration work, experience with the open source…

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EU-STF and OSTIF

The open source community has been abuzz for the past two years about European governance in open source software. From casual meetups to professional conferences, the implication of government funding and regulation of the free-use software sector has resulted in heavily debated discourse around the legal, financial, societal, and functional…

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OpenEXR Audit Complete!

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of OpenEXR,  a project at the Academy Software Foundation. OpenEXR is an open source specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, which “accurately and efficiently represents high-dynamic-range scene-linear image data,” (https://openexr.com/en/latest/). With…

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MaterialX Audit Complete!

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of MaterialX. MaterialX is an open source project hosted at the Academy Software Foundation for “representing rich material and look-development content in computer graphics, enabling its platform-independent description and exchange across applications and renderers,”…

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