Cloud services platform will provide both financial and in-kind contributions to support OSI infrastructure and new collaboration platform.
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Nov. 8, 2017 — The Open Source Initiative® (OSI), dedicated to increasing the awareness and adoption of open source software, is delighted to welcome DigitalOcean as a Premium Sponsor. DigitalOcean, a cloud services platform designed for developers, will provide both financial support and hosting for several OSI community-driven services.
A Forbes’ Cloud 100 company, DigitalOcean’s active engagement and investment in open source software highlights how today’s most innovative and successful companies have recognized the value of, and opportunities within, open communities of collaboration. The company regularly sponsors open source related MeetUps and Hackathons—including their popular “Hacktoberfest”, develops tutorials on open source technologies and techniques, maintains and contributes to a number of open source projects, and of course offers hosting to open source projects and foundations.
“DigitalOcean’s support provides a critical boost to the OSI’s ongoing operations, and for the new, community-focused programs we’ll be launching in 2018,” says Patrick Masson, General Manager at OSI. “With the growth in open source software across all sectors, the OSI is seeing more and more requests for assistance and resources. DigitalOcean’s services will provide the OSI with the dedicated infrastructure we need now to successfully extend and expand our support for the new and growing roles emerging in open source communities of practice.”
“One of our core company values is, our community is bigger than just us,” says Greg Warden, VP, Engineering at DigitalOcean. “From our KVM-based hypervisors to our Go and Ruby applications running on our Kubernetes clusters, DigitalOcean is built on a foundation of open source. That’s why it is so important for us to support the Open Source Initiative in its work promoting and protecting open source on behalf of the community.”
As a non-profit, community-driven organization, the OSI relies on the support of volunteers who lend their time to develop and manage internal operations and working groups; individual contributing members, whose annual dues provide critical support and votes elect the Board; Affiliate Members, composed of a who’s who of open source projects and foundations, and; corporations who choose to support our mission through in-kind donations and generous financial contributions.
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is a cloud services platform designed for developers that businesses use to run production applications at scale. It provides highly available, secure and scalable compute, storage and networking solutions that help developers build great software faster. Founded in 2012 with offices in New York and Cambridge, MA, DigitalOcean offers simple services, transparent pricing, an elegant user interface, and one of the largest libraries of open source resources available. For more information, please visit http://www.digitalocean.com or follow @digitalocean.
About The Open Source Initiative
Founded in 1998, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) protects and promotes open source software, development and communities, championing software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition, and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement. The OSI is a California public benefit corporation, with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.
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