The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation promotes, protects, and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events, and online resources.

The Linux Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes, protects, and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events, and online resources. The organization offers Linux marketing, compliance training and consulting, and strategy consulting services; corporate, custom, government, and academic Linux training solutions; and FOSS Bar Code Tracker that enables product development teams to create FOSS bill of materials, identify FOSS components, and update and share critical information of the supply chain for compliance purposes. The Linux Foundation was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan. It also has operations in Indiana, Texas, and Canada.