This Week in Open Source for June 27, 2025
A look around the world of open sourceBy
With Open Source Summit North America (OSSNA) this week, it has been an exciting week.
OSSNA Keynote Announcements and more you may have missed
- Google transfers Agent 2 Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation.
- Model Signing v1.0 was released by OpenSSF in April.
- Nvidia shipped over 1 Billion RISC-V cores in 2024.
- Overture Maps Foundation now has over 1 billion points of interest.
- Tazama - Open source software to provide realtime prevention of financial fraud. Especially useful in developing areas.
- Cloudflare now supports C2PA - With our current technology, content provenance assurances are more important than ever.
- CNCF launched GitJobs.
- Fair Package Manager Project for Wordpress provides open source content management system stability.
Upcoming Events
- July 7-13: The 24th annual SciPy conference will be held in Tacoma, Washington. It brings together attendees from industry, academia, and government to showcase their latest Python projects, learn from skilled users and developers, and collaborate on code development.
- July 8-9: The Beam Summit is happening in New York City. It is the leading conference for Apache Beam, the unified programming model for batch and stream data processing.
- July 14-19: The 26th annual Debian Conference (DebConf) for Debian contributors and users interested in improving Debian is in Brest, France.
- July 24-29: GUADEC 2025, the Gnome community's largest conference is in Brescia, Italy.
Open Source Reads and Links
- Everything Open Source - Open Source Events - Everything Open Source does many things in and for open source - maintaining a community list of events for the past three years is just one of them.
- Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers - Interesting explanation of robots.txt open protocol and how the open web is being challenged by needed updates/changes from AI crawlers.
- A Family of Forks - Daniel Stenberg, lead maintainer of curl, describes the work required to keep curl getting built with 11 modern Transport Layer Security (TLS) libraries
- Introducing the new API for OSI approved licenses - OSI has a new API for checking against approved open source licenses.
- What's new in Apache Iceberg 3.0 - The open data lakehouse keeps getting better with Iceberg v3. This article goes into the details and also takes a peak at what should be coming in v4.
- What would Kubernetes 2.0 look like? - Kubernetes is all over the tech world. So, what change to the defaults in K8s would keep it moving in that forward direction?
- Ubuntu 25.10 replaces sudo with a Rust based equivalent - While not quite at release yet, sudo-rs, a Rust based sudo replacement will soon be the norm on Ubuntu. Will other distros follow suit?
What exciting open source events and news are you hearing about? Let us know on our @GoogleOSS X account.
