1、Annual Report 2024Accelerating Industry Innovationwww.linuxfoundation.orgContentsINTRODUCTION 3Reflections from our Executive Director.4Board Chair Update.6Linux Foundation Board of Directors.7Thank you to our Members.8The Linux Kernel Organization.17ACCELERATING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 20Deepening Imp

2、act with Standards and Specifications .21Policy Stewardship in Europe,and Beyond.22LFX:Understanding Code Contributors and Velocity Through Data .23LF Education .24LF Research.26LF Events.27Mentorship.28Growing LF Charities.29Protection Against Patent Aggression.30SPHERES OF IMPACT 31The Right to Fo

3、rk.32Confronting Security Challenges in All Forms.34Accelerating Cloud Infrastructure.36Open Source at the Heart of AI Innovation.37The Power of Open Data.39Building with Open Hardware and Infrastructure .40Accelerating Industry Innovation.41Stewarding the Foundations of Trust.42FINANCIAL TRANSPAREN

4、CY 43ANNUAL REPORT 20242THE LINUX FOUNDATIONIntroductionANNUAL REPORT 20243THE LINUX FOUNDATIONReflections from our Executive DirectorOver the past year,weve witnessed tremendous change in the open source landscape:change that drove growth in open source innovation,change that generated important di

5、scourse in open source standards and regulation,and change that validated the critical role the Linux Foundation plays in supporting the open source ecosystem.Central to this exciting evolution are the members,partners,developers and community whose investment,involvement and passion push open sourc

6、e forward.Here are just a few of the biggest open source changes,challenges and successes in 2024.In the past twelve months,the Linux Foundation,with help from many open source stakeholders,mustered credible and wellresourced forks of two critical open source software projectsValkey and OpenTofu.The