Registration for Open Community Experience (OCX) 2027 is now open. OCX is the Eclipse Foundation's flagship annual open source developer conference, bringing together developers, maintainers and open source communities from across Europe and beyond.
FOSSASIA Summit is a leading open source event in Asia, bringing together thousands of contributors, maintainers, and technology leaders from around the world to exchange knowledge, build meaningful collaborations, and shape the future of open source.
A coordinated effort to secure open source is overdue. But routing the world’s most sensitive security data through a single jurisdiction recreates the very weakness it sets out to fix. In an immediate response, a new initiative has been announced to coordinate the full vulnerability remediation lifecycle.
Open Community Experience is where developers, architects, maintainers, and open source builders meet.
The main track at OCX26 focused on the practical challenges of building and operating open source systems at scale. Across three days, sessions addressed software trust, digital sovereignty, distributed architectures, and the integration of AI into enterprise environments.
The 2026 State of Open Source Report shows that 98% of organisations are maintaining or expanding their use of open source. Open source is core infrastructure. The industry has solved adoption. It has not solved what comes next.
In this guest post, Ruth Ikegah, open source pioneer and community builder in Africa, shares her journey – from her upbringing in a rural Nigerian household to global tech conference stages.
Recent global outages reveal that even well-tested and certified software can fail at scale, underscoring a growing trust gap in the software supply chain. This will be explored in John Ellis’ OCX session, “Rebuilding trust: From open source to open accountability.”
Running a successful open source project requires investment, clear goals, and adherence to core principles like transparency, openness, and meritocracy.
An open letter from the stewards of public open source infrastructure, signed by Alpha-Omega, Eclipse Foundation (Open VSX), OpenJS Foundation, Open Source Security Foundation, Packagist (Composer), Python Software Foundation (PyPI), Rust Foundation (crates.io), Sonatype (Maven Central).
