DUBLIN — On the heels of its first survey of Europe’s open source community, the Linux Foundation announced Wednesday that it is launching Lin

At Open Source Summit: Introducing Linux Foundation Europe

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2022-09-22 03:30:08

DUBLIN — On the heels of its first survey of Europe’s open source community, the Linux Foundation announced Wednesday that it is launching Linux Foundation Europe, seeking to build on its growing presence on the continent.

The new organization will be led by Gabriele Columbro, currently executive director of FINOS, the fintech open source foundation. The announcement was made during the keynote addresses here at Open Source Summit Europe.

There are three reasons why creating a European organization made sense to the Linux Foundation, Columbro said. The first is the existence of a central governing body, the European Union, that could help align disparate initiatives: “Europe is the only region where there is a supra-national entity … that really defines common goals in terms of innovations, as well as the rules of the road for collaborations across nations.”

Secondly, Columbro said, Europe already has a strong grassroots community for open source but is very “open source forward” from a policy standpoint.