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Exciting news! You can now submit to speak at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2027 (April 28-29, San Francisco). Whether you’re implementing a protocol, contributing to a project, or building enterprise agents, we want to hear what you’ve learned. View the topics + submit by Monday, January 18: bit.ly/4tFfCdz

The sixth annual state of open source in financial services study is here. Financial institutions grew their open source contributions 63% in a year. Yet 52% say security and privacy are the biggest hurdles to putting AI into production. Read the 2026 report: bit.ly/4BGALZt

How does your team handle testing, permissions, and automation for scientific software? Share your approach at #HPSFcon 2027 (April 12-16, Montréal). Proposals are due January 17! We’re excited to read your ideas and here if you need any guidance! Learn more + submit: bit.ly/3VAd5FI

🗓️ Extend your week in Tokyo this December! Add Open Networking & Edge Summit Japan (ONE Summit Japan) to your Open Source Summit Japan registration for December 10-11 at Toranomon Hills Forum. Open Compliance Summit runs the same days, by invitation request. Learn more and add a co-located event: bit.ly/4zpiDSm Still time to save on #OSSummit Japan + #AutoLinux + #EmbeddedLinux (December 7-9): bit.ly/4cbg90v

ICYMI: Banks have an 18 to 24 month window to patch known vulnerabilities before machine-scale automation makes them exploitable. The LF Research and @FINOSFoundation report draws on a London summit of about 50 executives, regulators and security experts. Read it here: bit.ly/4jfLW4z

🎤 Keynote spotlight: Hiroaki Miyoshi, Fellow of Aerospace Domain at NEC, speaks December 9 at #OSSummit Japan + #AutoLinux + #EmbeddedLinux in Tokyo! Hiroaki is working to create new commercial space markets by combining space technology and ICT. Join him there live. Save now on your pass. REGISTER BY NOVEMBER 23 + SAVE: bit.ly/4cbg90v

🎤 Keynote spotlight: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Kernel Maintainer & Fellow at The Linux Foundation, speaks December 9 at #OSSummit Japan + #AutoLinux + #EmbeddedLinux in Tokyo! Greg maintains the Linux stable kernel branch and subsystems including USB, staging, driver core, tty, and sysfs. Don’t miss him on the main stage! REGISTER BY NOVEMBER 23 + SAVE: bit.ly/4cbg90v

We’re BACK! AGNTCon + MCPCon North America returns April 28-29, 2027, in San Francisco, and the Call for Proposals is OPEN. Maintainers, contributors, developers, researchers, and teams: Share what you're building and learning. Submit by January 18: bit.ly/4tFfCdz

Developers see 19% to 52% time savings from AI, but only 1 in 3 open source projects have a formal AI contribution policy. Read the LF Research report on open source in the gen AI era: bit.ly/4dUejC9

What has your team learned while working on HPC software that other teams could use? Your experience could be a talk at #HPSFcon 2027 in Montréal April 12-16. Proposals are due January 17, so now is the perfect time to start your proposal! View the topics and submit here: bit.ly/3VAd5FI

Open source licensing, security, export controls, and the conversations that connect them. #OpenCompliance Summit brings Linux Foundation members and select invitees together December 10-11 in Tokyo to share insights and discuss approaches to compliance challenges. 📩 Request an invitation: bit.ly/3Mfi0Y8

👶 Bringing the kids to #OSSummit Japan + #AutoLinux + #EmbeddedLinux in Tokyo, December 7-9? Complimentary onsite child care is available for children up to age 12. RSVP by Friday, November 6 (23:59 JST). Late and onsite sign-ups aren’t available, so sign up now! RSVP: bit.ly/4jB1iAR Register by November 23 and save ¥30,000: bit.ly/4cbg90v

Join Mike Rapoport, Software Engineer at Microsoft, TOMORROW at 9:00am PT for an interactive, complimentary Maintainer Session exploring: “My Life as a Linux Kernel Developer and Maintainer”. Learn more & register: bit.ly/3TUe43f #OpenSource #Linux #LinuxKernel #LinuxMaintainer #LinuxKernelDeveloper

ICYMI: You don’t have to write code to contribute to open source. Docs, tests and sorting through issues count too. Ibrahim Haddad’s guide for first-time contributors, with LFX Mentorship, covers choosing a project and making that first contribution. bit.ly/4Ao5Vo3 @ibrahimatlinux

🎤 Keynote spotlight: Gabriele Columbro (@mindthegabz), Executive Director of the Fintech Open Source Foundation, speaks December 8 at #OSSummit Japan + #AutoLinux + #EmbeddedLinux in Tokyo! View the full keynote lineup: bit.ly/4dX6fR6 Register by November 23 + save: bit.ly/4cbg90v

🎤 Keynote spotlight: Dan Cauchy, General Manager of Automotive at The Linux Foundation and Executive Director of Automotive Grade Linux, speaks December 7 at #OSSummit Japan + #AutoLinux + #EmbeddedLinux in Tokyo! With 22+ years across automotive, telecom, and mobile, he leads AGL, a cross-industry effort to build an open software platform for automotive applications. View the keynote lineup: bit.ly/4dX6fR6 Register by November 23 + save: bit.ly/4cbg90v

🎤 ICYMI: The keynote lineup for Open Source Summit Japan + Automotive Linux Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Asia is here! See who’s speaking on the main stage and join us December 7-9 in Tokyo. View the lineup: bit.ly/4dX6fR6 Register by November 23 + save ¥30,000: bit.ly/4cbg90v

We're getting closer to MCP Dev Summit Nairobi! 🎤 Hritik Raj of @nutanix will take the keynote stage to explore how MCP has evolved, the decisions behind its biggest changes, and lessons learned along the way. Join us in Nairobi, 19-20 November! Register: bit.ly/4fMQVId