Open source community involvement

Apache Foundation

IBM was one of the founding sponsors of the foundation, helped shape the license and governance, and contributed to numerous projects. In addition, IBMers have been serving in leadership roles within the organization and on the ASF board since its launch. There are nearly 200 projects on ASF, including projects related to web technologies, XML, web services, document processing, mobile, cloud, big data and analytics, serverless, and messaging.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

In July 2015, IBM joined other tech companies to launch the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) whose purpose was to create an open governance model for Google’s Kubernetes project. IBM continues to increase its investment in Kubernetes, etcd, and containerd.

Commonhaus Foundation

Commonhaus Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the sustainability of open source libraries and frameworks. IBM'ers are primary contributors to many of the biggest projects in the foundation: Jackson, Hibernate, Quarkus, Debezium, Infinispan, Wildfly, etc. Many of which are integral to IBM and Red Hat products.

Eclipse

In 2001, IBM worked with others to create the Eclipse Foundation to create a safe place to collaborate and innovate under open governance. Today, there are over 360 projects at Eclipse with equivalent diversity of domain.

Hyperledger

In 2015, we worked with the Linux Foundation to create Hyperledger — a blockchain platform for enterprises. We contributed 44 thousand lines of code and established the first of the Hyperledger projects, Hyperledger Fabric, under open governance.

Linux Foundation

In 2007, IBM collaborated with other key industry leaders to establish the Linux Foundation. We continue to be a leader in the Linux community by investing hundreds of engineering resources in the Linux kernel and in many of the collaborative projects under the foundation.

LF AI

Linux Foundation AI is an umbrella organization under the Linux Foundation that supports open source innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. We are invested in the community, with IBMers co-leading the Trusted AI Committee and serving on the ML Workflow Committee.

LF Edge

The goal of LF Edge is to establish an open , interoperable framework for edge computing that isn’t reliant on any single hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. IBM is a premier member of the LF Edge community.

OpenAPI

The OpenAPI Initiative was created by companies who wanted to standardize how REST APIs are describes. The goal is to create a broadly adopted industry standard for describing modern APIs. IBM was one of the founding members of the initiative.

Open Container Initiative

IBM is currently one of the top contributors to Docker and the Open Container Initiative. We continue to support portable containers across platforms through the containerd, Libcontainer, and other projects.

Open Cybersecurity Alliance

IBM Security is a founding member of the Open Cybersecurity Alliance, which seeks to create an ecosystem for interoperable security technologies to work together to thwart attacks. The OCA supports commonly developed code and tooling and the use of mutually agreed upon technologies, data standards, and procedures to make it easier to freely exchange information, insights, analytics, and orchestrated response.

OpenJS Foundation

IBM is a platinum member of the OpenJS Foundation which brings together the Node.js and JavaScript Foundations. We are on of the leading contributors to the Node.js community, and support both communities through our leadership on steering committees, boards, and working groups.

Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)

The launch of the Open Source Security Foundation marks an important step towards giving open source communities the information and tools they need to improve their secure engineering practices, and the information developers need to choose their open source wisely. IBM is a premier member of OpenSSF.

PyTorch Foundation

IBM is a premier member of the PyTorch Foundation. Our collaboration with this deep learning community helps bring the power of foundation models and generative AI to everyone making AI training more effective and efficient.