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“Open source software is everywhere. Now, more than ever, we need to get a better understanding of it to help make it even more secure.” – David A. Wheeler, Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security, Linux Foundation

In 2020, given the wide proliferation of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS), we aim to identify how to improve security, including the sustainability of the FOSS ecosystem, especially the FOSS systems heavily relied upon by organizations worldwide.

To do this, the Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) have developed a survey for contributors to FOSS. If you contribute to FOSS, we would love for you to participate in our study. This voluntary survey takes around 15-20 minutes to complete and allows you to advocate for the FOSS projects you care about. 

Please participate now; we intend to close the survey in early August. In appreciation of your participation, we would like to offer our participants the option to have your name included in the overall results. If you opt to be attributed in the final report, you will still have the opportunity to keep your detailed survey responses confidential.

The CII takes a collaborative, pre-emptive approach for strengthening cybersecurity by improving open-source software security. We aim to support, protect, and fortify open software, especially software, critical to the global information infrastructure. We take a holistic view of security; we include security risks in critical projects that are inadequately sustained or vulnerable to supply chain attacks. We intend to use this survey information to help guide this approach.

To take the FOSS Contributor Survey, click the button below:

Take the CII 2020 FOSS Contributor Survey

The post Linux Foundation & Harvard Announce Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS) Contributor Survey appeared first on The Linux Foundation.

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ELISA Project Momentum Continues  Yahoo Finance

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1. Why Desktop Linux Still Matters  How-To Geek
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3. Windows 10 Linux subsystem: You get GPU acceleration – with Intel, AMD, Nvidia drivers  ZDNet
4. Windows 10's Linux subsystem gets GPU compute and an easier install in new preview  PCWorld
5. Windows Subsystem for Linux now supports GPU compute  Notebookcheck.net
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1. Why Desktop Linux Still Matters  How-To Geek
2. Windows 10's Linux subsystem gets GPU compute and an easier install in new preview  PCWorld
3. Windows 10 Linux subsystem: You get GPU acceleration – with Intel, AMD, Nvidia drivers  ZDNet
4. Windows Subsystem for Linux now supports GPU compute  Notebookcheck.net
5. 3.5 million Windows Subsystem for Linux users can now use GPU Compute from Linux on Windows - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser
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