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From Beginner to Builder: Your First Code Contribution

Maybe you've used open source before and wondered how it all works, or you're early in your career and heard that open source contributions can boost your growth. Maybe you've witnessed software supply chain attacks and felt an urge to make a difference. Maybe you just started learning about OpenSSF in our last blog: “Understanding…

From Ghent to Brussels: OpenSSF’s Week of Policy and Security in Europe

At the end of October, the Linux Foundation, the Linux Foundation Europe and OpenSSF will gather leaders across industry, government, and open source communities for three impactful events in Belgium. Together, these back-to-back gatherings will advance collaboration, shape policy, and highlight the critical role of open source in Europe’s digital future.

Improving Risk Management Decisions with SBOM Data: A New Whitepaper from the OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere SIG

SBOMs are becoming part of everyday software practice, but many teams still ask the same question: how do we turn SBOM data into decisions we can trust? Our new whitepaper, “Improving Risk Management Decisions with SBOM Data,” answers that by tying SBOM information to concrete risk-management outcomes across engineering, security, legal, and operations.

New OpenSSF Guidance on AI Code Assistant Instructions

AI code assistants are powerful tools. They can speed up development, suggest solutions, and help explore alternatives. But they also create security risks, because the results you get depend heavily on what you ask. These systems’ models are trained on vast amounts of code (much of it insecure), they don’t truly understand context, and they…

Celebrating the Community: OpenSSF at Open Source Summit and OpenSSF Community Day Europe Recap

From August 25 to 28, 2025, the Linux Foundation hosted a high-impact week of open source collaboration and innovation in Amsterdam. OpenSSF’s participation, in both Open Source Summit Europe and OpenSSF Community Day Europe, brought together developers, maintainers, researchers, and policymakers to strengthen software supply chain security and align on global regulations like the EU…

Open Source Friday with OpenSSF – Global Cyber Policy Working Group

On August 15, 2025, GitHub’s Open Source Friday series spotlighted the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) in a live interview hosted by Kevin Crosby. Open Source Friday is GitHub’s weekly program that celebrates the creators, maintainers, and contributors who make the open source community thrive. The session introduced the OpenSSF Global Cyber Policy Working Group…