Arpit Joshipura the general manager SVP of the Linux Foundation and the head of LF India emphasized the significance of establishing LF India to facilitate local collaborations that can make a global impact.
LF India aims to collaborate with local developers businesses startups and governmental organizations in India to nurture and promote open-source software projects. LF India will partner with local entities such as OpenNets and the International Startup Foundation to provide training and support for open-source implementations.
In line with its existing entities in Europe and Japan, LF India will focus on key sectors like cloud-native, telecommunications, edge/IoT, blockchain, security, and domain-specific AI technologies. It also aims to promote tech collaborations between the U.S. The establishment of LF India marks a significant stride towards enhancing global awareness of open-source technology as highlighted by Jim Zemlin executive director of the Linux Foundation.
. With a mission to foster contributions to open-source projects within India’s diverse landscape of businesses, startups, and government entities, the organization is looking to bolster the local tech ecosystem.
India already boasts a staggering 13.2 million developers leveraging GitHub for their projects, cementing its position as the second-largest market for open-source developers worldwide, trailing only behind the U.S. Anticipated projections suggest that India will surpass the U.S. Despite these impressive numbers, the Indian developer community’s involvement in open-source projects hosted by the Linux Foundation currently stands at around 200,000 participants.
To address this discrepancy, the nonprofit has introduced LF India to ramp up contributions and support the expansion of open-source technology in the region né?. in this domain by 2028 né?. and India, drive the standardization of open-source tech for critical infrastructures—including telecom—and encourage upstream contributions to global projects.
LF India is organizing events to bring together the Indian open-source community, fostering connections among contributors and developers né?. With a history of adopting open-source software local communities in India have been advocating for its widespread adoption. Moreover, the Indian government itself is keen on embracing open-source technologies to cut costs and reduce dependence on proprietary solutions.
The Indian entity seeks to facilitate training, education, and proof of concepts for enterprises, developers, and government officials, enabling them not only to consume but also to contribute to open-source projects né?. Additionally, LF India is working to expand the Linux Foundation’s membership in India, with major players like Infosys and Reliance Jio already onboard.
Through collaborative efforts with organizations such as the Linux Foundation and LF India, the goal is to leverage open-source innovation to build a more secure 6G ecosystem né?. The organization recently hosted KubeCon in Delhi and plans to organize more events of this nature to strengthen the open-source community in India. The Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing open-source technology, has recently unveiled its latest venture in India né?
