As 2025 comes to a close, we are celebrating the people and projects advancing open collaboration. Thank you to our global community for an impactful year. Read the December newsletter for highlights and what’s ahead:

Linux Foundation Newsletter: December 2025

Welcome to the December 2025 edition of the LF Newsletter. Check out the highlights, save the dates, and be sure to register for upcoming events!

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📊 Open source isn’t just a software model—it’s a strategy. 84% of organizations find that fostering open source culture leads to higher retention. Why? Because it gives engineers: ✅ Autonomy ✅ Visibility ✅ Purpose ✅ A path to growth without leaving your team See how it’s working in the "2025 State of Tech Talent Report". Free to download:

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2025 State of Tech Talent Report

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Celebrating collaboration and community excellence 🎉 The 2025 LF Decentralized Trust Community Awards recognize contributors building trusted, transparent, and secure decentralized technologies through open collaboration. Learn more:

2025 Community Awards: Recognizing Contributions from Across the LF Decentralized Trust Community | LF Decentralized Trust | 15 comments

As part of our celebration of a decade of building better together, this year we are giving out 10 community recognition awards. Join us in sharin...

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Introduction to free5GC (LFS114) | Linux Foundation Education

Build in-demand 5G Core skills with free5GC and learn architecture, functions, codebase, and debugging for cloud native, edge, and AI systems.

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Linus Torvalds shared his thoughts on AI being a valuable tool to help maintain code and details around the newly released Linux kernel 6.18 at #OSS Japan. Read about it in ZDNet:

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Linus Torvalds is 'a huge believer' in using AI to maintain code - just don't call it a revolution

Torvalds is sick of all the AI hype, but says AI is finally maturing to the point where it will be useful for Linux developers and maintainers.

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OpenAI is a co-founder of the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. With contributions such as AGENTS.md and strong community collaboration, AAIF will advance open and interoperable standards for the future of agentic AI. More details:

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@OpenAI is a co-founder of the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. With contributions such as https://t.co/aV3Fsi9Tpb and strong comm...

A milestone for agentic AI: Block joins as a founding project of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) at the Linux Foundation. Together with Anthropic and OpenAI, AAIF provides a neutral home for open, community-driven agentic AI and shared standards. Read the full blog from Block to learn more:

Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch the Agentic AI Foundation

Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch the Agentic AI Foundation

Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI have launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAF). Learn about this new non-profit organization dedicated to making agenti...

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MCP Night SF was a packed house! 🚀 Huge thanks to WorkOS for hosting an evening of AI + modern computing demos, deep dives & expert panels. Speakers from The Linux Foundation, OpenAI, AnthropicAI, Block & more shared updates on MCP protocol, design, and real-world use cases following the launch of t he Agentic AI Foundation. Read more here:

WorkOS MCP Night: The Holiday Special — WorkOS

MCP Night, The Holiday Special, marked a historic moment: Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation, launching the Agentic AI Foundation. Demos...

Anthropic’s donation of MCP to the Linux Foundation brings it into the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a founding project. With this, we take a big step toward open, shared standards that help AI tools, data, and agents work together — fairly and transparently. Read more about the announcement:

Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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⏳ Survey Closing Soon As we celebrate a decade of innovation, we want to hear from you. How has Zephyr or your RTOS of choice shaped your work, products, and community experience? Your insights will help guide the next decade of open innovation. Take the survey:

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