Ecosyste.ms — Identify, Secure, and Sustain Critical, Open Source Components

Open Source Collective is building shared infrastructure for a growing community of researchers, policymakers, developers, and funders seeking to identify, secure, and sustain critical open source components.

Today we are excited to announce that Open Source Collective, with financial support from Plaintext Group at Schmidt Futures, is making a commitment to the world’s effort to sustain and secure open source software for the future.

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Open Source Collective and Plaintext Group are addressing this issue with a set of free and open resources we are calling Ecosystems. Ecosystems will provide:

• a comprehensive, structured, and open dataset about free and open source software, its usage and authorship;
• a set of tools and services to resolve software dependency information quickly, to reason about the usage, creation and potential impact on the ecosystem, and;
• a support structure for those who are looking to work with and build upon these services.