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Linux Foundation Europe | 27 May 2025
Welcome to the May 2025 edition of the LF Europe Newsletter. This issue includes LF Europe announcements, updates on projects and communities, highlights from LF Education, the latest research, member communications, and must-attend events. We’re thrilled to have you with us. Explore the highlights, mark your calendars, and ensure you register for the upcoming events!
Contents
- Exciting announcements from LF Europe
- Projects: Featured news
- LF Education
- Member communications/CTA
- LF Research
- LF Europe Events: Mark your calendar!
- Follow us!
Exciting announcements from LF Europe
Welcome Paula – LF Europe’s New Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships
- Paula joins LF Europe to lead our strategic partnerships across public sector, academia, and open source communities. With a strong policy background from OpenForum Europe, she brings expertise in digital transformation and open technologies. Read more.
Carbyne Stack Joins LF Europe
We’re excited to welcome Carbyne Stack as the newest open source project hosted by Linux Foundation Europe! Built for enterprise-scale SMPC, Carbyne Stack enables encrypted data processing without exposure, with use cases across finance, healthcare, and analytics. Learn more.
Projects: Featured news
Photo op @ OpenSearchCon Europe 2025
OpenSSF
- Call for Proposals for OpenSSF Community Day Europe. Calling all open source security champions! The OpenSSF Community Day Europe CFP is open through 26 May 2025. Don’t miss your chance to join us in Amsterdam on 28 August alongside the Open Source Summit Europe.
- Last year’s Vienna gathering featured Intel, GitLab, CISA, Cisco, and more. This year, help us write the next chapter. Submit your proposal today and be part of the conversation shaping the future of OSS security!
- Have you already enrolled in LFEL1001? Understanding the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) (LFEL1001), a free online course designed to help software developers understand and prepare for the requirements of the European Union (EU) Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), saw nearly 2,000 enrollments in one week - a 1,600 percent increase over the LF Education cybersecurity course average.
- The course clarifies which open source software falls under the CRA’s scope and what steps developers should take to prepare for 2026 enforcement and full regulatory compliance in 2027. Learn more.
NeoNephos Foundation
- x-cellent Technologies GmbH joins NeoNephos as a General Member! We are looking forward to this collaboration and welcome them aboard! Learn more.
- Webinar recap: “Apeiro Reference Architecture – Strengthening Digital Sovereignty for Europe”. On May 8th SAP held the first public webcast about the Apeiro Reference Architecture (ApeiroRA) and its role in the NeoNephos Foundation. Watch the recording here.
Project Sylva
- Accelerating Cloud-Native Telco Innovation Across Europe. This past month was full of events and great news, see below the main ones!
- Sylva Dev Day: A Collaborative Success in London. On March 31, 2025, over 70 participants from more than 20 companies gathered in London for Sylva Dev Day, held ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe. This hands-on event brought together telecom operators, network function vendors, and system integrators to collaborate on advancing Sylva’s open-source framework. The day featured technical deep dives, roadmap discussions, and live demonstrations, fostering a vibrant exchange of ideas and strengthening the community’s commitment to cloud-native transformation.
- WG3 Workshop: Advancing Technical Alignment. In April, the Working Group 3 (WG3) workshop convened to focus on aligning technical specifications and integration strategies within the Sylva project. Participants delved into key areas such as Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and interoperability standards, ensuring that Sylva’s architecture remains robust and adaptable to evolving telco requirements.
- Sylva’s Impact on TelecomTV. Philippe Ensarguet, Vice President of Software Engineering at Orange, recently discussed the significance of Project Sylva in an interview with TelecomTV. He emphasized Sylva’s role in accelerating cloud-native adoption among European operators, highlighting its contribution to enhancing agility, scalability, and innovation in telecommunications. Ensarguet also addressed the challenges of integration complexity and the need for skilled talent, underscoring Sylva’s importance in overcoming these hurdles.
- Sylva @ FutureNet 2025. Sylva was mentioned in Celfocus Booth and a lot of interest was generated in this Telco focused event.
- AMD and Whitestack Join Forces with Sylva. The Sylva project welcomes AMD and Whitestack as new collaborators, marking a significant expansion of its ecosystem. AMD brings its expertise in high-performance computing, while Whitestack contributes its proficiency in open-source cloud solutions. Their involvement is expected to enhance Sylva’s capabilities in delivering scalable and efficient telco cloud infrastructure.
LF Education
The Linux Foundation has developed a global reference framework that identifies 14 cybersecurity-related job families with three tiers of baseline skills required for all proficiency. The free tool makes tailoring requirements to fit your unique security posture and industry-specific requirements very simple.
Join us for a Complimentary Live Webinar: Cybersecurity Skills, Simplified: A Framework That Works.
June 11, 2025 | 8:00am PDT (UTC-7)This webinar will showcase our new, globally relevant, industry agnostic Cybersecurity Framework for 14 key job families, each at multiple experience levels. You will also learn how you can leverage this free framework tool to quickly and easily identify critical cybersecurity skills and create a custom framework for the job roles within your team.
Understanding the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) (LFEL1001)
A free online course for developers preparing for CRA compliance – saw nearly 2,000 enrollments in one week (1,600 % above average!). The course breaks down scope, obligations, and steps toward full compliance by 2027. Learn more + enroll.
Member communications/CTA
Registration now open: LF Europe Member Summit 2025
Join us this October in Ghent for our annual flagship gathering of members, speakers, sponsors, and media. Advance Europe’s digital future through open source. Register now.
The LF Europe Roadshow hits Milan and Ghent
- Milan (July 8): Finance Track with FINOS and LF Europe members exploring open collaboration in regulated industries. View Milan Agenda »
- Ghent (July 11): Deep dive on regulation—Cyber Resilience Act, AI Act, software liability—with policymakers and industry leaders. Learn more »
- Sponsor the Roadshow »
LF Research
New publication: The Economic and Workforce Impacts of Open Source AI
LF Research’s latest study finds that open source AI (OSAI) is widely adopted, cost effective, highly performing, and leads to faster and higher-quality development of the AI tools and models. In a literature review commissioned by Meta, LF Research conducted a comprehensive analysis of academic and industry literature as well as empirical data from previous LF Research surveys to determine existing evidence on the economic and workforce impacts of OSAI. Download the report to read to complete findings!
Deadline extended to June 6: Global Collaboration in AI Survey
LF Research, in partnership with LF AI & Data and Futurewei, is studying how open source communities can thrive as organizations around the world build customized, AI solutions.
Share your perspective in our 2025 Global Collaboration in AI survey and get 20% off your registration to AI.dev, taking place on August 28-29 in Amsterdam!
LF Europe Events: Mark your calendar!
A summary of events we are organizing, partnering with, or are attending:
- APELL Conference
June 10 / Warsaw, Poland - Open Source in Finance Forum London
Jun 24 / London, England - The Linux Foundation Europe Roadshow
Jul 8 / Milan, Italy - Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting Summer
Jul 9–10 / Berlin, Germany - Open Source Summit Europe
Aug 25–27 / Amsterdam, Netherlands - AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit Europe
Aug 28–29 / Amsterdam, Netherlands - OpenSSF Community Day Europe
Aug 28 / Amsterdam, Netherlands
To register for in-person attendance or virtual LF Europe events, please view our full calendar of events here, and be sure to subscribe to our events newsletter. Check out our Flickr stream for photos of past events!
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