Welcome to the October 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter.
Autumn is upon us and open source innovation shows no signs of slowing. Over the past month, the Linux Foundation welcomed new projects, celebrated major project milestones, and advanced our mission of enabling open collaboration across industries. Here are more of this month’s highlights:
React Foundation Launches Under the Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation announced the formation of the React Foundation, a new home for React, React Native, and supporting projects to thrive under neutral, open governance. Contributed by Meta and backed by industry leaders, the foundation aims to support the long-term sustainability of one of the world’s most popular front-end frameworks.
Disney Research, NVIDIA, and Google DeepMind Contribute Newton Physics Engine A new project, Newton, has been contributed to the Linux Foundation by Disney Research, DeepMind, and NVIDIA. Newton is a GPU-accelerated physics engine designed for robotic simulation and reinforcement learning—bridging the gap between virtual training and real world deployment.
LF Decentralized Trust (LFDT) Celebrates One Year LF Decentralized Trust marked its one-year anniversary with key milestones, including new members, community growth, and the move of Hiero, the distributed ledger technology powering the Hedera network, to graduated project status. The initiative continues to drive forward open source solutions for tokenized assets, verifiable credentials, decentralized identity, and public trust.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Welcome to the July 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter.
This month, our global community of developers, maintainers, and members came together in Denver for Open Source Summit North America. Thank you to our attendees for a vibrant week of innovation, collaboration, and connection! (In case you missed it,SiliconANGLE rounded up 13 key takeaways from the event.)
Here are more of this month’s highlights:
Agent2Agent Protocol Project Launches at the Linux Foundation The LF announced the launch of the Agent2Agent Protocol Project, an open standard developed by Google to enable secure, interoperable communication between AI agents. Read more about the project in Forbes and VentureBeat.
Introducing the OpenSTX Foundation The Joint Development Foundation (JDF) launched the OpenSTX Foundation, a new effort to standardize Synchronous Transmission (STX)-based wireless networking. It’s the latest milestone in JDF’s 10-year legacy of enabling impactful open standards.
2025 State of Tech Talent Report Now Available LF Research and Linux Foundation Education released the 2025 State of Tech Talent Report, shedding light on AI’s growing impact on technical roles, how organizations are preparing for the shift, and the role of open source and upskilling in bridging the gap. Read coverage in ZDNetand The New Stack.
Each year, Open Source Summit North America, hosted by the Linux Foundation, brings together people from around the world to learn, connect, and collaborate. As a Research Mentee, I had the amazing opportunity to attend this conference and see firsthand the relevance and impact of what our team has been working on. Here’s what I learned.
