This week we released a new Tidelift company video that in 3 minutes articulates the problem Tidelift solves, how we solve it, and what makes us unique. 1️⃣ Problem: Using bad #opensource packages slows teams down and creates risk to organizations' revenue, data, and customers. 2️⃣ How Tidelift helps: Tidelift helps organizations proactively reduce their reliance on bad open source packages. 3️⃣ What makes us unique: We are the only company that partners with the #maintainers of 1000s of the most-relied-upon open source packages and pays them to make their packages healthier and more secure. Watch it for yourself today! 📽 If you want to talk further with us about anything you see in the video, get in touch with us here: https://lnkd.in/gksz64h8
Tidelift
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Tidelift helps organizations effectively manage the open source behind modern applications.
About us
Tidelift helps organizations effectively manage the open source behind modern applications. Through the Tidelift Subscription, the company delivers a comprehensive management solution, including the tools to create customizable catalogs of known-good, proactively maintained components backed by Tidelift and its open source maintainer partners. Tidelift enables organizations to accelerate development and reduce risk when building applications with open source, so they can create even more incredible software, even faster.
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- Software Development
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Boston, MA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2017
- Specialties
- open source, open source software, open source software security, open source software management, and software supply chain security
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David Dzergoski, Problem Solver at Tidelift gives valuable insight on building adaptable DevSecOps environments. David emphasizes the importance of understanding existing processes and tools while maintaining a clear mission objective. Key takeaways include the need for comprehensive toolsets, avoiding vendor lock, and ensuring effective communication across all organizational levels. By fostering a workgroup mentality and embracing small, iterative failures, agencies can improve efficiency, reduce cyber risk, and stay agile. This approach is essential for evolving missions and achieving success in federal software development. 🔍Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ehb-cWnY Presented by Tidelift & Carahsoft #FedGovToday #DevSecOps #Agile #Cybersecurity #GovernmentTech #SoftwareDevelopment
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What do open source maintainers think about #AI? 🤔 Take a sneak peak into the 2024 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer report with selected snippets, as presented by Tidelift CEO and co-founder Donald Fischer 👇
With GitHub rolling out new Copilot AI features this week, we wondered: do open source maintainers care? So Tidelift asked them! Here’s a sneak preview of what we heard. With the caveat that many maintainers were guarded or even skeptical about AI, here’s where they said it could help, in their own words: 📚 Documentation: help improving documentation, automating documentation tasks, and making documentation more accessible. “Non technical problems like changelog summaries or other similar boring tasks about presenting the content of technical actions to lay people. Perhaps some documentation related text, auto-extracted from the source code.” 🩺 Issue triage: help automating issue triage, identifying duplicate issues, and prioritizing issues. “Sometimes I receive vague bug reports or feature requests. I think having a chatbot that assists reporters and contributors in creating these could help reduce such cases.” 🔍 Code quality and review: help automating code review and improving code quality. “Resolve imports to dependencies needed to satisfy those imports. Provide intelligent refactoring. Assess safety of a given change. Generate tests and PRs to capture and resolve a reported issue.” 📟 Dependency management and security: help automating dependency management, identifying security vulnerabilities, and updating dependencies “Given a changelog for a new release of one of my dependencies, and the way the dependency is actually used in my codebase, what changes in the dependency do I need to investigate further than my tests will cover?” Our conclusion? The dawn of modern AI capabilities for coding is an exciting moment. But at the same time, we can’t lose sight of the humans behind open source who make all of modern software development possible, and what they need to get their essential job done. Stay tuned for Tidelift’s complete third open source maintainer survey report that will include this data coming soon, and until then check out last year’s report to understand the perspective of open source maintainers across many other dimensions: https://lnkd.in/eDMzEcjU
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From dorm room Linux installations to safeguarding global open source infrastructure! Join Open at Intel host Katherine Druckman and Tidelift Co-Founder Luis Villa as they discuss the high-stakes world of open source governance and maintainer burnout. Give it a listen: https://intel.ly/3YMO0XS
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“If we take away open source tomorrow, it’s very safe to say our infrastructure would collapse.” Tidelift co-founder and general counsel, Luis Villa, lays out why open source is critical infrastructure on the Open.Intel podcast with host Katherine Druckman. From open source beginnings, community as the core of open source, and the always spicy topic of #AI, the two stress the importance of recognizing the important role open source plays in our society. On #opensource as critical structure, Luis continues: “We’ve been talking about infrastructure as an analogy since ‘Roads and Bridges.’ [...] Open source has been taken for granted. [Open source software components] are going to be with us for dozens, hundreds of years—embedded in our systems. We need to be thinking about how we are building systems that are generationally robust. And ‘just finding the next maintainer’ is not the solution. It’s a stop gap.” Much like all other types of infrastructure, open source requires support. Katherine highlights the need to back open source #maintainers, especially by those who profit off of their work: “If the people who are ultimately profiting off from these things do not support the creation and maintenance of them, it falls apart. You can say that at any level, down to a single maintainer to a giant foundation. I think a big part of this conversation, about solving our critical problems in our community, is cross pollination—getting people to talk to each other. So many people are working on different solutions for similar problems. That was the entire spirit of open source, getting together and collaboratively solving the problem.” There’s so much more covered in this episode that you won’t want to miss! Listen to the episode on your app of choice, or check it out here 🎙️👉 https://lnkd.in/gJuYW9G5
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What is a “bad” open source package? 😵 In Tidelift VP of Product Lauren Hanford’s latest blog post in ITPro Today, she answers this question. ✅ From the article: “A package may be considered bad if it is abandoned, deprecated, or declared end-of-life. Or it may not have published security policies or respond to security issues—often because there is only one maintainer.” “Bad packages not only create #security #risk that can impact your organization's revenue, data, and customers, but they also suck up valuable development time when you need to replace them, work around them, or deal with endless cycles of vulnerability remediation.” How can organizations reduce reliance on bad #oss packages? 🤔 Lauren offers 4 ways: 1. Evaluate packages before pulling them in for application development. 🕵️ The best way to avoid risk from bad packages is to ensure they don't make their way into your application in the first place. 2. Actively monitor the open source packages in use. 📊Open source packages are constantly changing, and so it is important to monitor and review updates after making the initial decision to use a package or version. 3. Identify and eliminate bad packages you've already adopted. ❌ 4. Reinforce at-risk packages to keep them from becoming bad. 💪 You can read more about how your organization can move away from using bad open source packages, including what questions to ask during each of the questions above 🔼, on ITPro Today: https://lnkd.in/gBqd3iJP
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25 years ago yesterday, August 11th, as part of its IPO, Red Hat made the first notable effort to pay maintainers and other contributors for their work on #opensource. Today, Chris Grams, CMO at Tidelift, hits rewind ⏪ and revisits the day: what went down, why it matters, and its impact. Read his summary below ⬇ and checkout the entire post on the Tidelift blog:
Earlier this month I posted about how August 11 (yesterday!) marked the 25th anniversary of the Red Hat IPO. It was cool to see all of the memories people shared of that time in the comments. Thanks for the impromptu family reunion, everyone 😍 (link in the comments to the original post). One of the things that emerged from that conversation, perhaps somewhat lost to history, is that the Red Hat IPO, despite being eclipsed by many other mind-bending Red Hat innovations and financial milestones over the years, was the first-ever experiment in paying open source maintainers and other community contributors in return for the value they create. Red Hat did this by giving a select group of community contributors the option to buy stock through its IPO. This experiment was years ahead of its time, and I couldn’t find any good articles documenting it, so I decided to give it a try myself! ✍ Thanks to Bob Young and Harish Pillay for sharing their memories to help fill in some of the blanks. After looking back at this interesting time, here’s the conclusion I reached: — Returning to Bob Young’s memory earlier of why Red Hat made the decision to include community contributors in the stock offering, emphasis mine: “We recognized, and needed to communicate this clearly to the world, that if we were going to build a for-profit company using open source software 👉 we had to play by the rules of the community who were producing the open source software our business was dependent on. 👈 ” In 2024, even as many organizations are contributing to projects by writing code or by financially supporting open source projects, many still do not. Some organizations treat open source as a bottomless resource, strip mining without participating in sustaining its long-term health. They do so at their own peril. What Red Hat recognized in 1999, and leading organizations still realize today, is that 👉 contributing back to open source is a business requirement. 👈 It is in any organization’s direct financial interest to ensure the open source projects they depend on, and the open source maintainers behind them, have the resources and support they need to keep their creations healthy, secure, and properly maintained. ❗ By investing in this important work, they protect their own revenue, data, and customers. ❗ But they also follow in the footsteps of pioneering organizations like Red Hat, doing their part to ensure the continued growth and vitality of open source. — If you want to read the whole post on the Tidelift blog, you can find it here:
The Red Hat IPO experiment to pay maintainers: 25 years later
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Tidelift's maintainer survey data is cited in today's Office of the National Cyber Director, The White House report: "In the open-source software ecosystem, individual contributors to open-source software voluntarily support projects of their own choosing, unlike a traditional supply chain model where “suppliers” are tasked and compensated for their contributions. According to Tidelift, Inc., more than half of open-source software maintainers describe themselves as “unpaid hobbyists” who do not earn their income from sustaining open-source software projects." Glad to see this concerted effort by the U.S. government to deeply understand and engage open source software creators, and the citizens that depend on them.
ONCD is committed to solving hard problems in cybersecurity. Today, in partnership with members of the Open-Source Software Security Initiative, we are publishing an RFI Summary Report on Open-Source Software Security and Memory Safety. Last year at #DefCon we launched an RFI to ask the community for input, we listened to the feedback and now we're ensuring this community has the opportunity to see where we are one year later. We have outlined twelve Federal Government actions to secure the open-source software ecosystem: https://lnkd.in/eHDGYTer Today ONCD and the White House Climate Policy Office released our priorities for a cyber-enabled energy future. Building security and resilience into the foundations of key clean energy technologies from the start will deliver a more ambitious, abundant, and affordable energy future. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/epvfsxcg
Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Releases End of Year Report on Open-Source Software Security Initiative | ONCD | The White House
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The 2024 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer survey is officially closed! A huge thank you to everyone who submitted responses! ✅ 🧡 The data we collect in our state of the open source maintainer surveys helps Tidelift better support #opensource maintainers and continue to make the case for getting maintainers the resources they need to continue maintaining healthy and secure open source projects. Keep an eye out for the results. We're excited to share them with you! 👀
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What's it like to be an #opensource maintainer in 2024? While the state of the open source maintainer survey continues to collect responses (Open until August 5th! ➡ https://lnkd.in/gNm4f-8W), let’s take a look back to our maintainer panel from this year’s Upstream. 👥 In an annual Upstream tradition, Tidelift hosted a group of maintainers to hear firsthand what it’s like to be an #oss maintainer. This year's panel included Valeri Karpov (Val) from Mongoose, Irina Nazarova of Evil Martians, Tatu Saloranta of jackson-databind, and Wesley Beary, who maintains popular Ruby projects fog and excon. In today’s featured clip, Val discusses the impact of financial support when confronting competing priorities. From the talk: “...we all need to find a way to make money to support ourselves and our families. So if it's not via your open source project, then you need to work on something else, and then your work on the open source project comes out of your free time, basically. And I'm very fortunate that I can make a decent income working on my open source projects, but I know that if I had a full time job and my open source projects didn’t pay anything, I’d have to choose between: Okay, do I work on this open source project that’s sometimes kind of thankless and people are mean to me on the internet about it? Or do I go spend time with my kids?” To hear from all of the maintainer panelists, you can watch the entire talk (and many others!) on the Upstream site: https://lnkd.in/gkGakTJA