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Newsletter: March 2021

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

- CNCF GM Priyanka Sharma On the Unacceptable Attacks Against AAPI and Asian communities
- RISC-V On Growing an Open and Inclusive Community
- Open Mainframe Project A Call for Unity
- New Open Source Projects To Confront Racial Justice

Featured

Tux Turns 30!

30 Years of Linux! Celebrate with us on social media with these downloadable graphics!

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Open Source and 5G

This is a true solutions-oriented open source for 5G stack for enterprises, governments, and the world. Dive into the the Super Blueprint for more.

Governance Networks for Vertical Industries

A distributed ledger service, composed of nodes, operated under the policies and directions of an inclusive set of industry stakeholders.

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State of the Edge 2021

Edge computing will be worth up to $800B by 2028

Upcoming Events

CHIPS Alliance Spring Workshop, March 30
LF Energy Spring Summit, April 14
RISC-V Forum: Security, April 14

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Training

Celebrate 30 years of Linux with 30% off select Linux training & certification offerings!

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Mentorship

Spring 2021 LFX Mentorships are in progress. 49 mentees have been accepted into the Spring program. Please visit LFX Mentorship Wall for more information. Our mentors are leveraging LF Live: Mentorship Series resources to train mentees.
Blog: Unlocking your potential with mentoring by Jono Bacon
Open Mainframe Project is currently accepting applications for mentees for the Summer Program. Deadline to submit applications is March 31.
Hyperledger is currently reviewing 2021 summer mentorship project proposals and will take mentee applications during the month of April on LFX Mentorship. Get ready to apply to work closely with active contributors in the Hyperledger community on real open source projects to advance distributed ledger technologies.
Linux Kernel Mentorship Program is reaching out to Mentors for projects. Propose a project. Another round of Linux Kernel Bug Fixing is planned for the Summer session.
RISC-V is seeking internship projects, mentors, and mentees for the Summer 2021 session! Check out the opportunities and get ready for your RISC-V career!
ELISA inaugural mentee cohort recently completed their mentorship projects. Read Jay’s work on making CodeChecker ready for Linux Kernel developers.
LF Networking is currently reaching out to Mentors for projects. Interns will be able to submit applications starting April 15h.

Upcoming LF Live Mentorship Sessions:

KUnit Testing Strategies

Wed, March 31 • 10:00 – 11:30am PST

Mentor: Brendan Higgins, Engineer, Google

Kernel Validation With Kselftest

Wed, April 14 • 10:00 – 11:30am PST

Mentor: Shuah Khan, Kernel Maintainer & Fellow, The Linux Foundation

LFX

Release Update: LFX EasyCLA v2

Significant usability improvements are coming in EasyCLA v2, which will make signing and managing CLAs even easier. Check out the latest LFX blog post for details on what’s new and how this release will impact you and your project(s).

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April 8: LFX EasyCLA: Streamline your Development Workflow

Shubhra Kar, CTO and GM of Products at the Linux Foundation

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Linux Foundation Projects

New Rend-o-matic project helps musicians jam together even when they’re not together
Liquid Prep intelligent watering solution now hosted by the Linux Foundation as a Call for Code Project
Akraino Release 4 Enables Kubernetes Across Multiple Edges, Integrates across O-RAN, Magma, and More
Presto at UBER: Watch this video with Giresh Baliga, Engineering Manager of Data Infrastructure
Meet the Zephyr Ambassadors or check out why Zephyr is the chosen RTOS for product development in this video
Open Mainframe Project Kicks Off First Quarter with New Members, Additional COBOL and Linux on Z Resources, Launch of the 2nd Annual Open Mainframe Summit, and a look back at 2020 in its annual report
Kubernetes Community Days program has been relaunched with programs in Africa and Bengaluru first out of the gate
Academy Software Foundation has kicked off its Careers in Film and Tech webinar series as part of its Diversity and Inclusion initiative.
Xen Project is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
LF Public Health convened a summit to find solutions around how to do paper-based credentials to promote health equity across the globe for vaccination credentials
Combing IoT and DLT to Ensure the Safety of the World’s Vaccine Supply Chains a new solution brief written by Hyperledger Telecom SIG and LF Edge
The sigstore project has been launched; its goal is to improve software supply chain security by enabling easy cryptographic software signing backed by transparency log technologies.
Government Digital Service joins Cloud Foundry Foundation as an associate member.
LF Networking webinars are back! Don’t miss “NFV Deployments and the Path Ahead: An Operator's Perspective” on March 30, and check the main Webinars page for links to upcoming and on-demand webinars.
LF AI & Data Foundation: RREPEATS – An Introduction to the Principles for Trusted AI – Thoughts and Next Steps
OpenAPI meets SLA call for implementers and for feedback! Commercial APIs often have an SLA (Service Level Agreement) described in informal language published over HTML pages or PDF docs. Also read: OpenAPI now aligns with JSON Schema
RISC-V International Unveils Fast Track Architecture Extension Process and Ratifies ZiHintPause Extension: RISC-V International unveiled its Fast Track Architecture Extension Process that streamlines the ratification of small architecture extensions. ZiHintPause is the first extension to be ratified under this new process.
LF Energy welcomed three new projects; SOGNO, FledgePOWER, and Hyphae. Each project plays an important role in building a more resilient future composed of microgrids. Learn more about LF Energy projects

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