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Oregon’s Open Source Lab is short a quarter of a million bucks
Oregon’s Open Source Lab is short a quarter of a million bucks
Higher education across the USA is facing federal funding cutbacks – and now the Oregon State University (OSU) Open Source Lab (OSL) is in trouble.
The boss of the OSU OSL, Lance Albertson, reports a critical shortage of funding – putting the future of the 22-year-old project in jeopardy.
In the post, Albertson explained that OSL provides hosting for FOSS projects “from all over the world,” listing “notable milestones over the years” as including:
- Provided hosting for Mozilla Firefox when they needed help in the early days and hosted the release of 1.0
- Was the home of the Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, Kernel.org, Mozilla for many years
- Offers fast and reliable software mirroring for projects
- Currently provides infrastructure hosting for projects such as Drupal, Gentoo Linux, Debian, Fedora, phpBB, OpenID, Buildroot/Busybox, Inkscape, Cinc and many more!
- Virtual machines for x86, aarch64 and ppc64le are used by many projects for CI and other hosted services
You can see here how Open Source Labs has helped the free software development over the years.
