Webinar | 9th September | 9:30 AM CET
Register NowThe Growing Open Source Sustainability Challenge
Open-source software has become the foundation of modern application development. Organisations now depend on millions of components distributed through shared ecosystems and critical infrastructure such as package repositories, build systems, foundations, and community services.
While reliance on open source has grown, investment in maintaining projects and the infrastructure that securely publishes, stores, and distributes them has not kept pace. Although open source is freely available, sustaining it at global scale requires ongoing investment in security, infrastructure, operations, and community stewardship.This imbalance creates risks across the software supply chain, including vulnerabilities, abandoned dependencies, unreliable infrastructure, and increased opportunities for supply chain attacks.
By contributing to a healthier open-source ecosystem, organisations can strengthen their own security posture, operational resilience, and long-term software supply chain strategy.
Join us to explore why open-source sustainability is not only about supporting individual projects. It also means sustaining the shared infrastructure the software industry depends on every day - and ensuring that organisations deriving significant value from that ecosystem play an appropriate role in supporting its long-term health.
In this webinar, we’ll explore:
- Why open-source software and the infrastructure behind it have become essential to modern development and digital innovation.
- The shared responsibility of maintainers, foundations, infrastructure providers, consumers, and commercial organisations in sustaining the ecosystem.
- Practical ways organisations can contribute through funding, responsible usage, governance, community participation, and investment in shared infrastructure.
- Best practices for reducing open-source risk and building more secure, resilient, and sustainable software supply chains.
Featured Speakers
Paul Horton
OPSO Global Director
