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The Open Source Opportunity for AI Adoption in Africa, the Middle East, and Türkiye

ahermansen@linuxfoundation.org (Anna Hermansen) — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:58:26 GMT

In this second report in our series on the economic value of open source AI, we reviewed the technology’s impact in Africa, the Middle East, and Türkiye (AMET). Drawing on evidence from industry and academia, the study reveals strong adoption and investment trends, enormous economic potential, and transformational workforce and sector impacts. Many of the themes from our global study ring true in AMET as well, alongside some findings that are unique to this region.

Linux Foundation Newsletter: September 2025

andrewb@proximabiz.com (The Linux Foundation) — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the September 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter.

Summer is ending, Fall is approaching and the world of open source is as busy as ever. Over the last month, the LF welcomed exciting open source projects and innovations, celebrated major new milestones and launched groundbreaking research. Thank you to all the contributors, maintainers,members and staff driving this impact forward!

Here are more of this month’s highlights:

AgentGateway and DocumentDB Join the Linux Foundation
- Two exciting new projects joined the LF open source portfolio: AgentGateway—an AI‑native proxy developed by Solo.io—and DocumentDB - a PostgreSQL‑based document database project from Microsoft.
- Read more about agentgateway joining the LF in The Next Platform
- Read more about DocumentDB joining the LF in Forbes
LF Europe hosted Open Source Summit EU.
- From August 25–27, the European open source community convened in Amsterdam for three days of hands-on training, insightful presentations, and vibrant collaboration at Open Source Summit Europe.
- Highlights included keynote addresses from LF Executive Director Jim Zemlin and LF Europe General Manager Gabriele Columbro, the official launch of the World of Open Source: Europe 2025 and State of Commercial Open Source reports, and the debut of the new Developer Relations Foundation—a first-of-its-kind initiative to elevate the practice of DevRel globally. For those looking for more, session recordings are now available for viewing.
- World of Open Source Europe report in betanews
- Interview with Jim Zemlin in The New Stack
- Interview with Gabriele Columbro in diginomica

What’s Next?

Visit the agentgateway GitHub and DocumentDB GitHub to get involved and contribute to the advancement of these exciting open source projects
Explore session recordings and slides from Open Source Summit Europe 2025, available now on LF’s YouTube channel.

Read on for more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.

How to Achieve Independence, Privacy, and Trust in the Adoption of AI

ahermansen@linuxfoundation.org (Anna Hermansen) — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:15:03 GMT

In my week at Open Source Summit Europe and AI_Dev in Amsterdam, the topic of digital sovereignty persisted throughout various keynotes, panels, and hallway track conversations. Control, agency, and participation are seen as critical for Europe’s digital future. But sovereignty does not necessarily equate to solutions built within a country’s borders. Instead, it is seen as a larger movement of capacity-building that places local developers and innovators as builders and decision-makers on the global open source technologies the country or region relies on. This is as relevant in Europe as it is in my home country of Canada, where concerns around digital sovereignty also abound.

The State of Open Source in Europe: From Passion, to Prioritization

Hilary Carter — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:26:51 GMT

When the first World of Open Source: Europe Spotlight 2022 report was published in Dublin at the time we launched Linux Foundation Europe, it painted a picture of a continent with an undeniable passion for open source — a “romantic” relationship, as our researchers called it. European contributors were motivated by learning and enjoyment more than career advancement. Policies across governments encouraged consumption of open source, and industry leaders recognized its value. However, beneath this enthusiasm, a structural imbalance was clear. Organizations were consuming more open source than they were contributing back, and many sectors, in particular the public sector, lagged in fully embracing open collaboration.

The OSPO Book is Now Available in Print!

TODO Group — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:30:00 GMT

The TODO Group in collaboration with Cloud Native Computing Foundation is thrilled to announce the launch of the physical version of the OSPO Book, a community-driven resource that captures open source management best practices through OSPOs (Open Source Program Offices).

Open Source Program Offices Emerge as Strategic Hubs for AI Innovation, Security and Open Source Culture

Linux Foundation Research — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT

Organizations with OSPOs report stronger AI readiness, better security outcomes and greater upstream participation

The Data Is In: For COSS Companies, Community Is the Ultimate Moat

Matt Trifiro — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:16:55 GMT

I’ve spent three decades in technology, watching brilliant founders pour their hearts into building world-changing open source projects. I’ve seen them cultivate vibrant communities, driven by a shared passion for solving hard problems. And I’ve also seen them arrive at a painful crossroads, forced to choose between the community that built them and the capital they need to survive. It’s a story that has ended too often in compromise, with fractured communities and founders left wondering if there was another way.

Rewriting the Rules for Mobile: Open Source, Open Possibilities

Hilary Carter — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:29:50 GMT

In the course of conducting research to explore the intersection of open source innovation and the digital transformation of industries, it’s always exciting to witness major shifts. Today, the mobile sector is on the cusp of a pivotal transformation—one that's been many years in the making.

Linux Foundation Newsletter: August 2025

andrewb@proximabiz.com (The Linux Foundation) — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the August 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter.

This month, the Linux Foundation welcomed a groundbreaking project, expanded our India‑based open source footprint, and amplified developer collaboration across continents.

Highlights

AGNTCY Project Joins the Linux Foundation
The AGNTCY project—an open infrastructure for AI agent discovery, secure messaging, identity, and observability—has officially joined the Linux Foundation. Supported by formative members including Cisco,Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Red Hat, AGNTCY aims to break down silos, interoperating with standards like Agent2Agent (A2A) and Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP). Read more in the official press release and check out announcement coverage in Forbes.
LF India Marks Momentum at Inaugural Open Source Summit India
At Hyderabad’s inaugural Open Source Summit India, LF India showcased its first-year impact—welcoming new foundations including AgStack, LF AI & Data, FinOps Foundation, FINOS, O3DE, and OpenInfra. These additions bolster support across agriculture, AI, fintech, manufacturing, and infrastructure. Explore the full scope of India’s growth in the press release and media recap in It’s Foss News. .

What’s Next

Visit the AGNTCY GitHub to get involved and shape the future of interoperable AI infrastructure.
Explore session recordings and slides from Open Source Summit North America, available now on LF’s YouTube channel.
Get excited for Open Source Summit Europe and AI_dev GenAI & ML Summit, beginning August 25. See you in Amsterdam!Read on for more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.

Read on for more news and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.

Charting a path forward for global collaboration in open source AI: Key takeaways from the GOSIM open source AI strategy forum

Cailean Osborne — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:14:42 GMT

The open source AI ecosystem has reached a pivotal moment. There are now almost 2 million models on the Hugging Face Hub and open models, including a growing number of small but mighty ones, are rapidly catching up to proprietary alternatives in performance. Beyond models, researchers and developers across the world are collectively democratizing AI by sharing and collaboratively developing a range of open technologies, from open source frameworks and open standards for building AI agents and robots to open pretraining datasets and benchmarks for specialized domains and underrepresented languages.