Sustainability & Security: Itโ€™s time to connect the dots Tobie Langel (@tobie) Principal, UnlockOpen tobie@unlockopen.com

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๐Ÿญ INDUSTRY-WIDE EFFORT Organized by the Linux Foundation. Backed by tech giants. ๐Ÿ’ฐ MULTI-MILLION $ FUND Administered by Linux Foundation and a steering group of industry experts. ๐ŸŽฏ GOAL Harden the security of key open source projects. ๐Ÿ‘“ STRICT FOCUS ON โ€œCORE INFRAโ€ The goal is to prevent a new Heartbleed. Not to make open source as a whole more sustainable.

๐Ÿ” CORE INFRA INITIATIVE 2.0 Still run by the Linux Foundation. OpenSSF is membership-driven, so more resourced and more sustainable. ๐Ÿ† WIDER SCOPE 10K projects + critical build tools & package managers. Training. Best practices. ๐Ÿงญ NEW 10 POINT PLAN - prevent security defects and vulnerabilities - improve vulnerability discovery - shorten ecosystem patching response time

The Heartbleed Bug Tobie Langel (@tobie) Principal, UnlockOpen

Heartbleed bug impact ๐Ÿ‘ฉโš• 4.5 MILLION The number of US patient records whose con dentiality was compromised. ๐Ÿ’ฐ $500 MILLION fi Estimated cost to the industry.

Pivotal moment where tech industry realizes open source is: ๐ŸŒ UBIQUITOUS 2/3 of active sites on the Internet rely on the OpenSSL library. โš  CRITICAL OpenSSL encrypts private communications, bank transactions, medical records, etc. ๐Ÿ’ธ UNDERFUNDED Only 1 full-time maintainer, shoestring budget ($2k/year).

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Towards a sustainable solution to open source sustainability Tobie Langel, Principal, UnlockOpen

๐Ÿ›ฅ WHAT IS IT? Red Hat business model for the long tail. ๐Ÿ›Ž SERVICES Provides security updates, maintenance, and legal assurances for all open source projects in an organizationโ€™s stack. ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿ’ป HOW? By paying the actual maintainers to do the work. ๐Ÿ† SUCCESS STORY None yet. Still too early.

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Worldwide developer population Non-pro 4.30M Full-time Part-time 11.65M 6.35M Source: IDC, : h t a m e p lo e v n the e f o k c a b k ic Qu 780B $ = K 5 6 $ x 12M FT devs 210B $ = K 5 3 $ devs x T P M 6 + ars ~= 1 trillion doll , 2018.

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