Facebook to take board seat at Linux Foundation after signing as Platinum member
(2020/08/17)
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Facebook has upgraded its Linux Foundation membership and by doing so will assume a seat on the organisation's board.
Facebook's open-source group has been a long-time member of the Foundation, but has now decided a top-tier platinum membership is its best option. Doing so sees it join the likes of Google, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, and Intel.
The social media giant contributes to several well-known open-source projects, including the [1]React JavaScript library, the [2]Open Compute Project , and the [3]cGroup2 container software project.
As part of its membership, that the company's head of open source, Kathy Kam, will have a seat on the Foundation's board.
In a blog post announcing the membership, the Linux Foundation commended a number of Facebook projects that "leverage open source to unlock the potential of open innovation". This includes [4]Facebook Connectivity , which, together with the open-source Telecom Infra Project Foundation, aims to bring fast, reliable internet to remote areas of the world.
Facebook is the lead contributor to [5]Presto , [6]GraphQL , [7]Osquery , and [8]ONNX , as well as the creator of [9]the PyTorch machine learning library , which is used to create AI in computer vision, natural language processing, and other disciplines.
"The Linux Foundation has and continues to play a crucial role in the continued success of not only Linux but also in broader open source ecosystems as well," Kam said a LinkedIn post. "Excited to be joining the board of the Linux Foundation." ®
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Facebook's open-source group has been a long-time member of the Foundation, but has now decided a top-tier platinum membership is its best option. Doing so sees it join the likes of Google, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, and Intel.
The social media giant contributes to several well-known open-source projects, including the [1]React JavaScript library, the [2]Open Compute Project , and the [3]cGroup2 container software project.
As part of its membership, that the company's head of open source, Kathy Kam, will have a seat on the Foundation's board.
In a blog post announcing the membership, the Linux Foundation commended a number of Facebook projects that "leverage open source to unlock the potential of open innovation". This includes [4]Facebook Connectivity , which, together with the open-source Telecom Infra Project Foundation, aims to bring fast, reliable internet to remote areas of the world.
Facebook is the lead contributor to [5]Presto , [6]GraphQL , [7]Osquery , and [8]ONNX , as well as the creator of [9]the PyTorch machine learning library , which is used to create AI in computer vision, natural language processing, and other disciplines.
"The Linux Foundation has and continues to play a crucial role in the continued success of not only Linux but also in broader open source ecosystems as well," Kam said a LinkedIn post. "Excited to be joining the board of the Linux Foundation." ®
Get our [10]Tech Resources
[1] https://reactjs.org/
[2] https://www.opencompute.org/
[3] https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/cgroup2/
[4] https://connectivity.fb.com/
[5] https://prestodb.io/
[6] https://graphql.org/
[7] https://osquery.io/
[8] https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ONNX
[9] https://pytorch.org/
[10] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
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