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Software Heritage

Software Heritage preserves software source code for present and future generations.

Paris

Daybreak for Frontline Defenders

Daybreak for Frontline Defenders is OpenAI's $1B initiative subsidizing AI cyber-defense tools, training, and support for under-resourced defenders of essential services, water, power, local government, community banks, with a US public-sector pilot via MS-ISAC.

2026

Open Source Endowment Foundation

Truly sustainable funding for critical OSS through a community‑driven endowment

Delaware
2026

Fellowship for Maintainers

A pilot program to pay maintainers of critical open source technologies.

Germany

Open Weights

A definition and license for open source compatible licensing of neural network weights

Civic Technology Collaboration

Swimming with the tide of international trends on the "Public Code, Public Goods" and pursuing digital democracy, moda supports civic technology and empowers open source software development.

Taipei City, Taiwan

Open Source Collective

Non-profit fiscal host promoting a healthy and sustainable open source ecosystem.

USA

Source Code Harmonization And Reuse in Information Technology (SHARE IT) Act

Bipartisan legislation that would require government agencies to share custom-developed source code with each other—thereby avoiding duplicative government contracts to build software.

Washington, DC
2024
United States (federal government)

Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC)

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
2023
United States (federal government)