2024 Nonprofit Partners

Each and every year we partner with multiple open source nonprofits, some of which have tables onsite.

And every year we ask attendees to support these wonderful organizations and to stop by and say hello. This year is no different.

See who our 2024 partners are below and plan to support them today!

Apereo Foundation

Apereo Foundation’s mission is to assist academia in developing, adopting, and maintaining open source software for teaching, learning, and research.

CHAOSS is a Linux Foundation project focused on creating metrics, metrics models, and software to better understand open source community health on a global scale. CHAOSS is an acronym for Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software.

FreeBSD Foundation

The FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit supporting the open source FreeBSD Project. Donations are invested into the FreeBSD Project for technical, advocacy, and community-building growth.

Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer-user freedom. We defend the rights of all software users.

OASIS OPEN

OASIS advances open standards and open-source development, home to SAML, STIX, CAP, CSAF, CACAO, OSIM, Kestrel, TOSCA, and OpenEOX. New open source projects like the Coalition for Secure AI and Defending Against Disinformation join the Open Cybersecurity Alliance, fostering collaborative communities to develop code, APIs, and standards under open-source licenses.

Open Invention Network (OIN)

Open Invention Network (OIN) — the largest patent non-aggression community in history & the largest free defensive patent pool with nearly 4,000 worldwide members — believes Open Source collaboration fosters faster innovation, reshapes human experiences, and creates unimagined technologies that improve our lives.

RIOT

RIoT connects a global network of individuals, businesses, startups, and government partners to advance IoT, AI, and Data technology. With an industry consortium of 90+ partners, RIoT creates opportunities for connection, education, and growth in the tech sector. We offer thought-provoking education, facilitate collaboration through events and introductions, and support startups with our 12-week accelerator program.

Software Freedom Conservancy

Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization centered around ethical technology. Our mission is to ensure the right to repair, improve and reinstall software. We promote and defend these rights through fostering free and open source software (FOSS) projects, driving initiatives that actively make technology more inclusive, and advancing policy strategies that defend FOSS (such as copyleft).

Triangle Women in STEM

Triangle Women in STEM is a diverse partnership of women from various industries, academia, government, and non-profits, focused on advancing women in STEM through programs for professional women, college students, and K-12 students. As an NCBiotech Center Intellectual Exchange Group, our mission is to create an integrated ecosystem that attracts, engages, and supports women in STEM, establishing North Carolina’s Triangle region as a leading destination for women in these fields.

Women of Open Source

We are a community offered to both cis and trans women and non-binary and gender-nonconforming people who are comfortable in a space that centres women and who are interested in, or involved in, open source projects. We welcome all levels, from established maintainers through to complete newcomers to join our welcoming, supportive community.