OSTIF would not be possible without our fantastic collaborators, partnerships, funders, and friends. Over the past 10 years, we’ve met so many amazing people, several of whom we have the utmost privilege of working with. It is deeply important to us that we give credit where credit is due. OSTIF…
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…
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…
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…
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,”…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of PowSyBl. PowSyBl is an open source library for energy grid modeling, visualization, and simulation. With the help of Ada Logics and Linux Foundation Energy, this project manages electrical grids and provides users with…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of conda-forge. conda-forge is a community-driven open source repository of conda package manager recipes. With the help of 7ASecurity and the Sovereign Tech Agency, this project has invested in its longevity and security health…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails (or “Rails”) is an open source full stack web-application framework. Thanks to the help of X41 D-Sec, GitLab, and the Sovereign Tech Agency, Rails can provide more…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audits of Apache Log4Net and Log4CXX. Log4CXX is an open source logging framework library for C++, and Log4Net is a library to output log statements to various targets. With the help of Ada Logics and…
by Helen Woeste, Communications and Community Manager Amir and I were in London for State of Open Con earlier this year, where we attended a talk by Kat Cosgrove and Jeremy Rickard called “Are You Not Entertained? Open Source Isn’t a Coliseum.” This presentation was about conflict in community and…