Latest version of infotainment platform includes rear seat display, video playback, audio routing and application framework

SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2016 – Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), a collaborative open source project developing a Linux-based, open platform for the connected car, today announced the release of AGL Unified Code Base (UCB) 2.0. Built from the ground up through a joint effort by automakers and suppliers, the AGL UCB is an In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) platform that can serve as the de facto standard for the industry.

The latest version of the Linux distribution includes new features such as audio routing and rear seat display. Ideal for deploying navigation, communications, safety, security and infotainment functionality, the AGL UCB distribution is supported by a broad community ofparticipants with significant contributions from AGL members. 

“The automotive industry is starting to embrace an open innovation mindset, and OEMs and suppliers are realizing that collaboration and joint development benefit the entire industry,” said Dan Cauchy, General Manager of Automotive at The Linux Foundation. “The AGL UCB provides the industry with a single, shared platform that will ultimately reduce fragmentation, improve time-to-market and reduce the cost of software development for everyone.”

Several members of AGL, including Toyota, Aisin AW, DENSO, Fujitsu Ten, HARMAN, Panasonic, Pioneer and Renesas Electronics are planning to use the AGL Unified Code Base distribution to deliver a modern in-vehicle infotainment and connected car experience for consumers.

“The latest version of the AGL UCB distribution marks a significant step toward building a developer ecosystem around the platform,” said Masashige Mizuyama, CTO, Infotainment Business, Panasonic. “The new platform enables developers to build and test one application that can be supported by multiple OEMs, instead of having to build multiple applications with the same function.”

Although initially focused on In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI), AGL plans to support instrument cluster, heads up display, telematics and autonomous driving in the future.

New AGL Unified Code Base 2.0 Features

Based on the Yocto Project, a complete embedded Linux development environment with tools, metadata, and documentation, the new AGL distribution includes:

• Rear seat display and video playback - controls video from the rear seat via touch screen; video on front display plays simultaneously as rear seat
• Audio routing and mixing - combines the best of GENIVI and Tizen audio management enabling streamlined audio management, audio prioritization and audio layering
• Application framework - controls and manages installing, running and updating applications; provides a more secure environment by assigning resources only to approved applications
• ConnMan network management - for pairing multiple Bluetooth devices and switching data connections between Bluetooth and WiFi
• Vehicle bus messaging - rewritten with built-in security to prevent unwanted intrusions; rogue applications will not be allowed to talk to the vehicle bus
• New build environment - faster server lets developers specify what goes into the build and submit custom jobs
• New test infrastructure - developers can remotely connect to a hardware board from anywhere in the world to perform testing
• New hardware board support - NXP Sabre Automotive, NXP WandBoard, Qualcomm DragonBoard, TI Vayu EVM and Raspberry Pi; continued support for Renesas R-CAR M2 PORTER and R-CAR E2 Silk, Intel boards including the MinnowBoard MAX and QEMU x86 64-bit emulation

The AGL Unified Code Base distribution, which is hosted by Linux Foundation and open to anyone, is available for download here.

More than 30 new companies have joined AGL in the past year, bringing the member total to more than 70. Ford, Honda, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota are among the first carmakers to participate in the AGL collaborative project. Other members include Aisin AW, Continental, DENSO, Fujitsu Ten, HARMAN, Irdeto, Mitsubishi Electric, NTT DATA MSE, Panasonic, Pioneer, Qualcomm, Renesas Electronics, Wind River and many others.

AGL Demonstration at Automotive Linux Summit

The AGL UCB 2.0 will be featured at the Automotive Linux Summit (ALS) on July 13-14 in Tokyo, Japan. Demo applications for rear seat display, video playback, AM/FM radio, wheel input device, navigation, HVAC control, media player and browser, settings and home screen are on display.

AGL members ADIT, DENSO, Hitachi, IoT.bzh, Konsulko Group, Mazda, Mentor Graphics, Microchip Technology, NTT DATA MSE, NXP, Panasonic, Pioneer, The Qt Company, Renesas Electronics, Texas Instruments and Toyota contributed to the demo.

About Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) 

Automotive Grade Linux is a collaborative open source project that aims to accelerate the development and adoption of a fully open software stack for the connected car. Leveraging the power and strength of Linux at its core, AGL is uniting automakers and technology companies to develop an open platform that offers OEMs complete control of the user experience so the industry can rapidly innovate where it counts. The AGL platform is available to all, and anyone can participate in its development. Learn more: https://www.automotivelinux.org/

Automotive Grade Linux is a Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems. www.linuxfoundation.org

About The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at  www.linuxfoundation.org.

Additional Resources

• Developer Resources
• About the AGL Community
• Participating in Automotive Grade Linux

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New members deepen investment into collaborative development

SAN FRANCISCO – July 7, 2016 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration today is announcing six new members are joining the organization: Bitnami, CoSoSys, GigaSpaces, Thundersoft, NXT Foundation and INUIT Foundation - University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Open source software is leading the way for mass, cross-industry collaboration spanning web applications, security protocols, cloud software, and mobile devices. To overcome interoperability barriers and speed the rate of innovation for the next generation of computing, The Linux Foundation unites thousands of developers across hundreds of global companies and open source projects. These professionals collaborate with The Linux Foundation to build common, open source technology platforms, develop best practices and provide a foundation for the world’s largest efforts to advance open source software.

"Open source software enables companies to collaborate across industries and reach new levels of innovation faster than working alone. The Linux Foundation provides the critical infrastructure needed to enable this level of collaboration," said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation. "These new members represent the continuing shift towards open source as the de facto way to build technology solutions.”

More information about the newest Linux Foundation members:

Bitnami provides free, ready-to-run open source server applications as native installers, virtual appliances (VMs) cloud templates, and containers. With Bitnami, users of any skill level can have a complete data visualization tool, blogging platform, bug-tracking software, software development environment or other applications up and running in minutes.

“Bitnami is constantly striving to make it easy for users to run their favorite apps and development frameworks by making our applications more flexible and accessible to a larger audience,” said David Dennis, VP of Marketing, Bitnami. "Open source technology is at the heart of this effort, and we're excited to join The Linux Foundation as we increase our development efforts around microservices, orchestration templates, and other key pieces of the rapidly evolving cloud and container ecosystems."

CoSoSys enables businesses and end users around the world to take full advantage of the performance benefits of mobility, portability and communications solutions, without compromising security. CoSoSys specializes in content-aware Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile Application Management for iOS and Android, and applications for portable storage device encryption and enhancement.

“Joining The Linux Foundation was a natural next step for us since we support Linux with our DLP software and our solutions are Linux-based,” said Roman Foeckl, CEO and Founder, CoSoSys. “We feel passionately about supporting the Linux community, because it shares a lot of our same values, especially with its emphasis on, and reputation for, being secure.”

Cloudify by GigaSpaces, is an open source, pure-play cloud orchestration platform that automates and manages complex applications throughout their entire lifecycle. Based on TOSCA, Cloudify provides a single pane of glass to manage and orchestrate hybrid cloud infrastructures, containers, and legacy environments. Cloudify brings web scale best practices for installing, configuring, scaling and repairing cloud applications using automated and repeatable workflows.

“GigaSpaces is deeply invested in building open source platforms to empower next-generation web applications to automate and scale in hybrid cloud environments, alongside containers and even non-virtualized install-bases,” said Nati Shalom, CTO, GigaSpaces. “The Linux Foundation is the ideal forum for open source professionals to unite and collaborate for the future of computing.”

Thundersoft is a worldwide provider of mobile operating system and smart device solutions, focusing in areas including mobile phone/tablet, IoT, automotive, enterprise, among others. With full-stack engineering resources covering mobile software; hardware; all layers of operating system development; a rich technology/solution portfolio; strategic partnerships with key SoC/ISV/IHV vendors; and a global support networks, Thundersoft is able to provide professional, solid, responsive and turn-key mobile platform technology, services and solutions, and enable customers worldwide to build high-quality and quick-to-market products.

“We believe that open source paves the way to interoperability and innovation for consumers and end users. The Linux Foundation hosts open source projects spanning IoT to cloud-based technologies, which will allow us to participate in the global open source ecosystem,” said Larry Geng, CEO, Thundersoft.

Today The Linux Foundation also welcomes the NXT Foundation and INUIT Foundation - University of Rome Tor Vergata as Affiliate Members.

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Call for papers and registration now open for November event

SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 2016-- The OpenDaylight Project, the networking industry’s largest open source project focused on Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), today announced the second OpenDaylight India Forum taking place November 16-17 in Bengaluru. The Forum will facilitate local collaboration among the networking industry on the OpenDaylight SDN platform and will serve as an opportunity for users to connect directly with other developers  integrating the platform directly into their networks.

The two-day forum, open to participants of all levels of experience from beginners to advanced veterans, includes technical presentations on the latest version of OpenDaylight, Beryllium, as well as discussion related to the next platform release, Boron. The event also presents an opportunity to engage and collaborate with local users, developers,  and open source communities for cross-pollination of ideas and technologies. Registration for OpenDaylight Forum India is open and speaking submissions are being accepted through August 3.

“We’re seeing strong growth for ODL all around the world with India continuing to be one of our most robust and vibrant communities,”  said Neela Jacques, executive director of OpenDaylight. “The OpenDaylight India Forum is unique as it brings together top talent from across the country’s broad range of local and global actors who are actively working together to advance open networking.”

Last year’s sold-out event in Bengaluru brought together many OpenDaylight User Group (ODLUG) leaders, developers, and students interested in learning more about OpenDaylight. Popular tracks from last year included OpenDaylight application development, Service Function Chaining and the Future of Path Computation Element (PCE). Programming for this year’s event is still underway.

Sponsorships Available

Sponsorship opportunities are available for OpenDaylight India Forum. To download a prospectus or find out more information, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/opendaylight-forum-india/sponsors

About the OpenDaylight Project

The OpenDaylight Project is a collaborative open source project that aims to accelerate the adoption of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) for a more transparent approach that fosters new innovation and reduces risk. Founded by industry leaders and open to all, the OpenDaylight community is developing a common, open SDN framework consisting of code and blueprints. Get involved: www.opendaylight.org.

OpenDaylight is a Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems.www.linuxfoundation.org

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Event provides neutral forum for learning about the future of Node.js and JavaScript from the community and enterprise alike

SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2016  – Node.js Foundation, a community-led and industry-backed consortium to advance the development of the Node.js platform, today announced the initial programming for Node.js Interactive Europe, September 15 -16, 2016, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The event will showcase workshops, community and technical talks, and use cases that will inform the future development of Node.js and JavaScript.

With 4 million users a month and adoption across numerous industries, Node.js is emerging as a universal platform used for web applications, IoT, enterprise application development and microservice architectures. This marquee event attracts enterprise users, developers and community stakeholders, providing them with a unique opportunity for cross-disciplinary discussions that are aimed to provide new insights and new opportunities around Node.js development.

“We’ve hand-selected a range of presenters and content that will showcase the future of Node.js and how pervasive it has become in the market through both a community and enterprise lens,” said Mikeal Rogers, community manager of Node.js Foundation. “This is a perfect conference if you are a front end, back end, mobile, IoT or full stack developer.”

The keynotes will focus on the future of Node.js and corresponding technologies. The initial keynotes include: 

• Ashley Williams, Node.js Foundation community board chair, founder of NodeTogether, and developer community and content manager at npm
• Doug Wilson, Express lead maintainer
• James Snell, IBM engineer and Node.js Foundation TSC member
• Kat Marchán, CLI engineer at npm
• Mikeal Rogers, community manager at the Node.js Foundation

Experts from the world’s leading companies and most important open source projects will deep dive into tracks ranging from artificial intelligence to security. A sampling of this year’s sessions include:

Cloud and Back End

• Node.js and Containers go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly from Ross Kukulinski of NodeSource
• Building the Node.JS Global Distribution Networkfrom Guillermo Rauch creator of Socket.io
• SWIMming in the microservices Ocean from Luca Maraschi of Sporti and nearForm

Diagnosing, Debugging, and DevOps

• Instrumentation and Tracing in Node.js from Thomas Watson of Opbeat
• The Cost of Logging from Matteo Collina of nearForm

Machine Learning, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence

• Taking on Genetically Evolving Cellular Automata with JavaScript from Irina Shestak of Small Medium Foundation
• From Pterodactyls and Cactus to Artificial Intelligence from Ivan Seidel of Tenda Digital

Node.js Core

• Keeping the Node.js Community Infrastructure Humming: An Update from the Build Workgroup from Michael Dawson of IBM
• Creating Native Addons - General Principles from Gabriel Schulhof of Intel
• The CITGM Diaries from Myles Borins of IBM

Security

• FIPS Comes to Node.js from Stefan Budeanu of IBM
• Take Data Validation Seriously from Paul Milham of WildWorks

IoT

• Node.js on Hardware: Where We Are, Where We're Going, and How We'll Get There from Kassandra Perch of NodeBots
• Why did the robot cross the road? Computer vision, robots and mobile games from Pawel Szymczykowski of Wedgies
• The Future is Now: How to Realize your New Potential as a Cyborg from Emily Rose of Salesforce

Node.js Everywhere

• Bitcoin, Blockchain and Node from Portia Burton of The Atlantic
• Node.js and the African Market from Ogatcha Prudence of Pilby
• The Radical Modularity from Aria Stewart of npm

Workshops

• Deploying Node.js applications using plain old Linux from Luke Bond of YLD
• Build a real-time multiplayer chess game with Socket.io from David Washington of Microsoft
• Isomorphic JavaScript with React + Express from Azat Mardan of Capital One

The event will provide free onsite childcare for attendees and offers ASL, interpretation and transcription assistance upon request. The Node.js Foundation is offering three diversity scholarships this year. More information can be found here.

Node.js Interactive is made possible by support from Platinum Sponsor IBM; Gold Sponsors nearForm and YLD; and Silver Sponsor Opbeat. If you are interested in sponsoring please contact Todd Benzies at tbenzies@linuxfoundation.org.

For attendees who register before July 4th, the early bird registration fee is $400. Visit here to register.

About the Node.js Foundation

Node.js is used by tens of thousands of organizations in more than 200 countries and amasses more than 4 million active users per month. It is the runtime of choice for high-performance, low latency applications, powering everything from enterprise applications, robots, API engines, cloud stacks and mobile websites. 

The Foundation is made up of a diverse group of companies including Platinum members IBM, Intel, Joyent, Microsoft, PayPal and Red Hat. Gold members include GoDaddy and NodeSource, and Silver members include Apigee, AppDynamics, Codefresh, DigitalOcean, Fidelity, Google, Groupon, nearForm, New Relic, npm, Opbeat, RisingStack, Sauce Labs, SAP, StrongLoop (an IBM company), Sphinx, YLD, and Yahoo!. Get involved here: https://nodejs.org.

Top computing, container and microservices technologists and open source project leaders to gather to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing

SAN FRANCISCO – June 30, 2016 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a Linux Foundation project and organization dedicated to advancing the development of cloud native technology and services, today announced the full program and speakers for CloudNativeDay, which takes place on August 25 in Toronto.

CloudNativeDay will bring together leading contributors in cloud native computing, containers, microservices, central orchestration processing, and related projects to further cloud native education. By co-locating with ContainerCon, CloudNativeDay will provide a platform for showcasing a full range of technologies that support the cloud native ecosystem and leading expert discussion on cloud native projects.

Attendees will have the opportunity to meet with upstream developers and operations experts, ranging from hobbyists to startup CTOs, from corporate developers to language designers to senior technology executives from all over the world. The latest features in container technology, Kubernetes, Prometheus and other cloud native architectures will be discussed.

“Cloud native requires a broad set of components to work together and an architecture that departs from traditional enterprise application design,” said Dan Kohn, executive director, CNCF. “Opportunities for in-person collaboration are an important part of bringing the benefits of cloud native computing to any size company in any industry. Best practices from companies and developers at the vanguard of cloud native computing will be shared, making CloudNativeDay an excellent forum for driving alignment among technologies and platforms.”

A roundtable discussion with the Technical Oversight committee, Board of Governors, featuring will feature Alexis Richardson (CNCF TOC Chair), Craig Mcluckie (CNCF Governing Board Chair) and Diane Mueller (Director Community Development, Red Hat). Open to any TOC members attending the event, it will cover how CNCF adds value to projects; what is the role of BOG vs. TOC; what makes a good CNCF project; and pipeline of new projects.

Additionally, the schedule includes a mix of case studies, panels and lightning talks, featuring the following presenters:

• “Cloud Native in the Enterprise: Real-world Data on Container and Microservice Adoption,” Donnie Berkholz, research director, 451 Research

• “Whither Security in a Cloud-Native World?” panel, Christopher Liljenstolpe, founder and chief technology officer, Tigera

• “The Architecture of Cloud Native: Open Source Projects Powering a Pluggable Infrastructure,” Brandon Philips, chief technology officer, CoreOS

• “The Journey to Cloud Native - A Case Study with mantl.io,” Ken Owens, chief technology officer of the cloud native platform, Cisco

• “What’s Hot in Containers and OpenStack,” Duane De Capite, director of product management & strategy, Cisco

• “Cloud Native, Event Driven, Serverless, Microservices Framework - OpenWhisk,” Animesh Singh, STSM and lead cloud architect, IBM

• “Containerizing PostgreSQL and making it Cloud Native Ready,” Jeff McCormick, cloud developer, Crunchy Data Solutions

The full schedule of sessions can be viewed here.

CloudNativeDay is made possible by support from Diamond Sponsor IBM and Red Hat; Platinum Sponsor Cisco; and Gold Sponsor Navops. For more information on sponsorship, please visit http://bit.ly/290XW3h.

For attendees who register before July 24, the event pass fee is $250 for individuals and $400 for corporations. Visit http://bit.ly/267LXJR to register today. Separate registration fees are required for CloudNativeDay and ContainerCon. To attend both events, register for ContainerCon and add the CloudNativeDay agenda item to the registration prior to check out.

CNCF Diversity Scholarship

Equal access and diversity are important to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which is why we are offering three scholarships to attend CloudNativeDay. Visit http://bit.ly/2958nFA to learn more about the scholorship and apply.

About Cloud Native Computing Foundation

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a nonprofit organization committed to advancing the development of cloud native technology and services by creating a new set of common container technologies informed by technical merit and end user value, and inspired by Internet-scale computing. As a shared industry effort, CNCF members represent container and cloud technologies, online services, IT services and end user organizations focused on promoting and advancing the state of cloud native computing for the enterprise. For more information about CNCF, please visit: https://cncf.io/.

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