Free Badge Program Signals What Open Source Projects Meet Criteria for Security, Quality and Stability - Seite 2

The CII Best Practices Badge program addresses this challenge by helping projects determine if they meet open source best practices quickly (generally, in under an hour) and through a trusted source. The program is an open source project designed in collaboration with the community and seeks ongoing input to ensure the most relevant criteria for the badge is included and continually updated.

The project is spearheaded by David A. Wheeler, an open source and security research expert who works for the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and is also coordinating the CII's Census Project, and Dan Kohn, a senior adviser on the CII. Wheeler and Kohn are working with open source developers to make the certification process seamless and automated and welcome input and pull requests.

To learn more about the criteria and to sign up for the badging program, please visit: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/ To learn more about CII, including membership, please visit https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/. To apply for a CII grant for research or development to improve the security of critical open source software, please visit: https://applications.coreinfrastructure.org/.

CII is a multimillion-dollar project that funds and supports critical elements of the global information infrastructure. It is organized by The Linux Foundation and supported by Amazon Web Services, Adobe, Bloomberg, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, NEC, Qualcomm, RackSpace, salesforce.com, and VMware. Moving beyond funding projects, CII is introducing pre-emptive tools and programs to help the open source ecosystem and the companies who support it deploy secure coding practices. For a full list of CII grantees, please visit: https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/grants 

About The Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux and collaborative software development. Founded in 2000, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system and collaborative software development by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Collaborative Projects, Linux conferences, including LinuxCon and generating original research and content that advances the understanding of Linux and collaborative software development. More information can be found at http://www.linuxfoundation.org.

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