Today on the podcast, we’re speaking with Chris Aniszczyk about the Linux Foundation and the important work they do to further the advancement of technology through open source initiatives. Mark and Mark are your hosts this week, and they begin by speaking with Chris about what the Linux Foundation is and how it’s unique.

The Linux Foundation, while seeking to support open source projects, sets itself apart by also providing professional services such as marketing, technical writing, legal help, and running events. It acts as a parent foundation for smaller open source foundations like Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Node.js Foundation, and the Automotive Linux Foundation, which strives to bring open source to the automotive industry.

Though typically companies can be leery of working with competitors, The Linux Foundation has been successful bringing companies together to create useful software that benefits everyone. Collaboration can be easier when done through the foundation. Chris also actively reaches out to companies in industries that don’t typically engage in open source practices and encourages them to consider working together to make their industry better. Specifically, Chris works with companies within CNCF and the Open Container Initiative.

Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He’s currently a VP at the Linux Foundation where he co-founded the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and currently serves as CTO. Furthermore, he’s a partner at Capital Factory where he focuses on mentoring, advising and investing in open source and infrastructure focused startups. Throughout his career he has worked at the intersection of open source, internet scale organizations and the enterprise; at Twitter he created their open source program/strategy and led their open source efforts to change the infrastructure industry. In a previous life, he bootstrapped an open source startup, was a Gentoo maintainer, made many mistakes, lead and hacked on many developer tooling and Linux related projects.

Cool things of the week

• Uber datasets in BigQuery: Driving times around SF (and your city too) blog
• Topping the tower: the Obstacle Tower Challenge AI Contest with Unity and Google Cloud blog
• Querying the Stars with BigQuery GIS blog
• GKE Sandbox: Bring defense in depth to your pods blog
• Google Cloud launches new Osaka region to support growing customer base in Japan blog

Interview

• Linux Foundation site
• OpenJS Foundation site
• CNCF site
• Automotive Linux Foundation site
• Let’s Encrypt site
• How to start a project with the Linux Foundation site
• Community Bridge site
• Academy Software Foundation site
• Open Container Initiative site
• CNCF Cloud Native Definition site
• CNCF Annual Report site
• GraphQL site
• Linux Foundation Events site

Question of the week

How do I connect Cloud SQL to my serverless?

Where can you find us next?

Mark Mirchandani will be working on more film projects.

Mark Mandel will be at Tokyo Next in July and will be at Open Source in Gaming the day before the Open Source North America Summit in August.