From the deck of the HMS Surprise pirate ship at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, on the
eve of Kubecon,
Codefresh announced
the establishment of a $100 Million Open Source Fund offering grants up to $1
Million. This "heave ho" is designed to foster the growth and expediency of
open source projects from development and deployment to ongoing
maintenance.
"Open source is part of every project and
drives change in the modern world at an incredible pace," said Dan Garfield,
Chief Technology Evangelist of Codefresh. "Codefresh has contributed to
open source projects related to Kubernetes such as Helm and Chart Museum, and
many open source projects have used Codefresh to power their CI/CD and software
delivery supply chain. The Codefresh $100 Million Open Source Fund is a way to
give even more back to the community that has embraced and empowered Codefresh
from the beginning."
The Codefresh $100 Million Open Source Fund
will provide grants to open source projects specifically to improve their
DevOps, systems, and processes for increasing contributions and improving the
quality of code delivered. The fund is set to launch in 2020 with a focus on
CI/CD. https://codefresh.io/open-source-fund/
"CI/CD is the beating heart of every software
project. Without strong automation, you can't handle contributions, make
releases, or fix bugs, that's why we're starting there," Garfield said from the
deck of the HMS Surprise.
Ahead of the 2020 launch, Codefresh also
announced two additional initiatives to support the community in 2019 - unlimited builds and its December
DevOps Hackathon, DevOpsCember, co-sponsored by Codefresh, Microsoft Azure and
DevOps.com.
Codefresh's new free tier is open to anyone and
includes unlimited builds, SaaS deployment, unlimited repositories, pipeline
metrics, a private Docker registry/Helm repository, and a full month of data
retention for up to three users.
DevOpsCember - known last year as Fixvember -
rewards developers with t-shirts, hats, stickers, and other swag for making at
least three contributions to improve the DevOps of open source projects.
Qualifying contributions improve automation, add better testing, and fix bugs.
Guidelines and suggested projects can be found at https://devopscember.com/.