OpenSSF: Open Source Security Foundation

Re:OpenSSF: Open Source Security Foundation by caniszczyk on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:57AM (#24051213)

Matt, the CII grant program became problematic for a number of reasons and that OpenSSF is certainly aiming to avoid replicating those mistakes and making entirely new mistakes instead (to not only focus on grants and truly help define what critical software is).

The CII was before my time at the LF so I don't have much to share outside of it was in the mind of the OpenSSF founders to do better.

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Re:OpenSSF: Open Source Security Foundation by _msw_ on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @12:24PM (#24051498)

I imagine the folks where were directly involved in CII (so, not me) would have loved to have had an opportunity to share their experiences and perspective during the closed-door formation phase of OpenSSF.

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Re:OpenSSF: Open Source Security Foundation by caniszczyk on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @12:54PM (#24051912)

All of the Working Groups (WGs) that will be doing the work are forming now in the OPEN so this is the perfect time for anyone to get engaged as the organization gets off the ground: https://github.com/ossf

FYI: the majority of the work was born out of a closed source effort that you weren't involved in: https://github.blog/2020-07-09-what-we-learned-from-building...

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