At NetKnights, we believe that proprietary solutions for multi-factor authentication are inflexible and make companies dependent.
Therefore, we develop the open source software "privavyIDEA" for secure user authentication and make it available to users. We are supporting customers in using privacyIDEA. This way, they are independent and always have full control over their access and data.
Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization centered around ethical technology. Our mission is to ensure the right to repair, improve and reinstall software. We promote and defend these rights through fostering free and open source software (FOSS) projects, driving initiatives that actively make technology more inclusive, and advancing policy strategies that defend FOSS (such as copyleft).
Arm-based technology is about more than just bringing ideas to life. It’s about inspiring our partners, engineers, and developers to push the boundaries of what’s possible with technology that can deliver an unparalleled range of specialized processing products. Today, we’re sparking the world’s potential while creating a future designed by millions of minds to enrich our lives.
The cloud was founded on the idea of making operations simpler, cheaper, and more scaleable. A decade in and it can almost feel at odds with productivity. Massdriver aims to fulfill the promise of the cloud, giving organizations the scalability and agility they hope for, but the ease of use of a PaaS.
DBeaver Corporation specializes in developing tools for visualizing data for all of the most popular databases. With the advanced features of DBeaver, it appears more convenient to explore, process, and administrate a huge range of SQL, NoSQL, and cloud data sources. Our users can work within various infrastructures, including local storage, distributed servers, and clouds. We provide a high level of security and help users protect their data with complex authorization mechanisms. We have been supplying our product worldwide and receive more than 1 million downloads per month.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world. Its mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft helps you move to the cloud on your terms, maximizing existing IT investments while offering flexibility to meet evolving business needs. Microsoft provides tools and services for developers to plan, build, and deploy modern applications across any technology, language, or platform.
The secure networking platform for devs, IT, and security
Grafana Labs provides an open observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards. Grafana Labs helps companies manage observability strategies with the fully managed Grafana Cloud offering or self-managed Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring extensive enterprise data source plugins, dashboard management, metrics, logs, traces, and more.
ClickHouse is a fast open-source column-oriented database management system that allows generating analytical data reports in real-time using SQL queries.
Build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.
Work with RISC-V is a community project to help support the greater Open Source ecosystem get the most out of RISC-V
From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense.
PingCAP is the creator of TiDB, the most advanced, open source, distributed SQL database. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.
At Black Hills Information Security (BHIS), we strive to strengthen our customers’ information security infrastructure and employees through penetration testing, consulting, and defensive security services. Since our founding in 2008, companies of all sizes, from small community banks to Fortune 100 companies, have entrusted us with their business.
Oakland Privacy is a statewide coalition that focuses on guardrails and safeguards in the interests of privacy protections, civil rights and community consent.
The Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org) is a nonprofit
with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to
defend the rights of all software users.
At our booth, we would again be handing out informational flyers and
selling merchandise (T-shirts, stickers, buttons, pins, stuffed
animals, etc.) to raise funds for our campaigns.
Framework is building sustainable, upgradable consumer electronics products that are better for consumers and the environment
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 20 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. Its SQL implementation strongly conforms to the ANSI-SQL:2008 standard. It also has a host of extensions and advanced features. Best of all, PostgreSQL's source code is available under a liberal open source license: the PostgreSQL License.
Coder keeps developers in flow with solutions designed to increase developer productivity. Coder's browser-based IDEs (Integrated development environment) and cloud development environments (CDE) are open source software for developers and small application teams to create, access, and collaborate in development environments from anywhere, without having to host and manage code locally. This streamlines developer workflows, saves time, and accelerates innovation. Coder sells an annual subscription to DevOps and Platform Engineering teams built atop the open source foundation that adds the security, observability, and governance capabilities that make it easier to run at scale in production environments.
Thunderbird is an open-source email, calendar and productivity tool designed for users who value customization, privacy, and control. Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android - stay connected without getting locked in.
VictoriaMetrics is the company behind the open-source time series database and monitoring solution of the same name. VictoriaMetrics recently also released a new open-source logs management solution, VictoriaLogs. Founded in Kyiv, Ukraine, now globally led and headquartered in the US, VictoriaMetrics is the scaleup leader in open source time series and logs monitoring. VictoriaMetrics boasts 750+ million downloads & counting; customers include Roblox, Grammarly, and Wix. Please visit our website for more information & to get started.
VeloDB, powered by Apache Doris, is a real-time analytics and search database for diverse workloads, bringing real-time analytics and search capabilities wherever your data lives. Leveraging advanced indexing and storage optimization, VeloDB enables real-time analytics and search across streaming, databases, data warehouses, and lakehouses, enabling interactive BI, observability, and AI-driven workloads, with unmatched performance and cost effectiveness
Minimus images radically reduce the amount of vulnerabilities that impact your cloud environment. Minimus is founded by the Twistlock team that pioneered container security and authored NIST SP 800-190. Minimus builds images from scratch, directly from upstream project sources, with only the minimal software needed to run the app, dramatically reducing their attack surface. Minimus images are OCI compliant and you deploy by changing a single line in deployment files. Minimus eliminates time consuming and low value remediation work for devs, is easy for ops to deploy and manage using their existing tools, and provides security with remarkably clear risk reduction and nearly instant time to value.
Minimus solves the endless treadmill of cloud software vulnerabilities by simply preventing them from existing. Minimus provides secure, minimal container and VM images, rebuilt from scratch daily to eliminate over 95% of CVEs.
Founded in 2022 by the team behind container security pioneer Twistlock, Minimus has raised a $51 million seed round from YL Ventures and Mayfield. The company is headquartered in Baton Rouge with offices in New York, Tel Aviv, and Portland, OR.
PlanetScale was founded in 2018 by the co-creators and maintainers of the Vitess open source project. We are a globally-distributed company that values high performance, accountability, and integrity.
Every day, thousands of Hack Clubbers gather online and in-person to make things with code. Whether you're a beginner programmer or have years of experience, there's a place for you at Hack Club.
Civicband is the largest repository of civic meeting data for the United States and Canada. We’re providing Open Data on municipalities across the country.
We plan to emphasize our ongoing support for hardware that's now unsupported by a majority of other OS projects and Linux distros, such as 32 bit x86. We also plan to show off the portability by showing how easy it is to build the OS for any target from any target, while showing off examples of less common hardware, such as a Nintendo Wii U and a VAXstation running NetBSD.
Rocky Linux is a community-driven Enterprise Linux distribution—stable enough for the largest enterprise to rely on it, and community-driven to ensure it stays accessible to all.
At CIQ, we operate on the belief that true success—both in business and life—emanates from doing the right thing. Our ethos is built around the idea that we are part of something larger than ourselves and that real growth is a collective effort. We're committed to supporting our community of innovators, builders, and leaders because we understand that each individual has a unique role to play in shaping the future. Our mission is to simplify and unify software infrastructure, enabling you to craft groundbreaking technologies for the generations to come.htt
Navicat develops leading database management and development software. Our flagship product, Navicat Premium, allows you to access and manage nine databases simultaneously in one application: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite, Redis, and Snowflake.
This seamless integration streamlines your workflow to maximize productivity and efficiency. With over 25 years of experience and 5 million downloads, Navicat is the database management choice of numerous Fortune 500 companies.
Since its inception, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the best place for customers to build and run open source software in the cloud. AWS is proud to support open source projects, foundations, and partners.
AlmaLinux OS is an open-source, community-driven Linux operating system that fills the gap left by the discontinuation of the CentOS Linux stable release.
AREDN™ (Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network) organization develops open source solutions in the Amateur Radio Community for purposes of Emergency Communications using wireless high speed data technologies. The AREDN team builds upon linux, OLSR, and OpenWRT using commercial Wireless ISP devices and extending frequencies across a wide range of Amateur only microwave bands. The result is a commercial grade off-the-grid viable alternative network suitable for restoring some degree of inter/intra‐net connectivity “when all else fails”.
Data Con LA is the largest data conference in Southern California. Spearheaded by Subash D’Souza and organized and supported by a community of volunteers, sponsors and speakers, Data Con LA features the most vibrant gathering of data and technology enthusiasts in Los Angeles.
AppSentinels protects application Business Logic through a proprietary Business Logic Graph, securing APIs, AI agents, and MCP servers end-to-end. Recognized as a Leader & Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar and referenced in 5+ Gartner reports, the platform safeguards over 250 billion API calls per month across 100,000+ endpoints. Built for modern DevSecOps teams, AppSentinels delivers deep protection without compromising developer autonomy or operational control.
Community-driven free software effort focused around the goal of providing a rich base platform for open source communities to build upon.
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, provides open source security, support and services. Our portfolio covers critical systems, from the smallest devices to the largest clouds, from the kernel to containers, from databases to AI. With customers that include top tech brands, emerging startups, governments and home users, Canonical delivers trusted open source for everyone.
The Fedora Project is a community of people working together to build a free and open source software platform and to collaborate on and share user-focused solutions built on that platform. Or, in plain English, we make an operating system and we make it easy for you to do useful stuff with it.
Helping students use technology and creativity to work on meaningful problems and create a more innovative future.
The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian.
An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. At the core of an operating system is the kernel. The kernel is the most fundamental program on the computer and does all the basic housekeeping and lets you start other programs.
LinuxChix is many things to many people, but it primarily focuses on supporting women in computing, specifically in Open Source/Free Software/Software Libre computing.
LinuxChix is a community that encourages participation by allowing the quieter voices a place to speak without being drowned out by a vocal minority by holding fast to the two core tenets within the LinuxChix community: "be polite" and "be helpful."
The international community of LinuxChix has been active for over nine years and the Los Angeles chapter of LinuxChixLA was established in 2002.
ITDRC harnesses the collective power of the technology community along with our professional network of volunteers to support communities impacted by disasters.
Nextcloud is a suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. Nextcloud provides functionality similar to Dropbox, Office 365, or Google Drive when used with integrated office suites Collabora Online or OnlyOffice. It can be hosted in the cloud or on-premises.
Linux Professional Institute is the global certification standard and career support organization for open source professionals. With more than 600,000 exams delivered, it's the world’s first and largest vendor-neutral Linux and open source certification body. LPI has certified professionals in over 180 countries, delivers exams in 9 languages, and has hundreds of training partners.
Perl is a general purpose high level programming language that has become an ubiquitous tool in the Linux world, being present by default in most, if not all, Linux distributions and other UNIX based operating systems.
Perl Mongers is a loosely based association of Perl User Groups all over the world. The Southern California Perl Mongers, from the cities of Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, and Thousand Oaks each do their part in spreading the use of Perl through regular technical and social meetings.
The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work.
Network Time Foundation produces the highest quality open-source products that ensure free public access to precise measurements and management of time. While Network Time Foundation’s precision time software is open-source – free to you – it costs a great deal of money to develop, distribute and maintain. With your help, we can continue providing this vital social infrastructure.
Your home feed should be filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see. Radically different social media, back in the hands of the people.
Percona is widely recognized as a world-class open source database software, support, and services company for MySQL®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL®, Valkey®, and Redis® databases in on-premises and cloud environments. We are dedicated to helping make your databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software.
Your data is the foundation of your business, and we believe it can be simpler, faster, and easier to manage. Our services and software accommodate rapid growth and application development, help you develop and deploy agile solutions and improve your ability to keep up with customer needs. We have progressively built a suite of open source database solutions that empower our customers with greater flexibility. Percona is on a mission to provide a unified approach to open source database software, support and services.At Percona, we make your database—and the applications that depend on it—better.
openSUSE is an open-source community project with Linux-based distributions that is sponsored by SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH and other companies. The openSUSE Project has a large global community that develops openSUSE in collaboration with the open-source community and corporate sponsors. The project’s distributions are free to download any time at no cost.
MySQL is the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database. It powers the most innovative companies including Facebook, Booking, Uber, and Tesla. It is available on-premises and as the MySQL Database Service on Oracle Cloud. For developers, it’s an easy to use, reliable and high-performance database with NoSQL and SQL support. SaaS, ecommerce, financial, telecom, and Fortune 1000 companies rely on the MySQL Enterprise edition advanced security features to protect the privacy of information, prevent data breaches and help meet regulatory requirements such as GDPR, PCI, HIPAA.
The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3), US based, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting, promoting, and building the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide. The Foundation gratefully accepts donations from individuals and businesses, using them to fund and manage projects, sponsor FreeBSD events, Developer Summits and provide travel grants to FreeBSD developers. In addition, the Foundation represents the FreeBSD Project in executing contracts, license agreements, copyrights, trademarks, and other legal arrangements which require a recognized legal entity. The FreeBSD Foundation is entirely supported by donations.
Flox brings reproducibility and consistency to complex software development lifecycles. Using a strong declarative framework based on Nix, a package management and system configuration tool, Flox allows developers to create reproducible environments that contain everything they need to build software. These environments offer a complete software bill of materials (SBOM) that makes it easy to perform audits, address vulnerabilities, and recreate the exact conditions needed to address those hard-to-pin-down bugs.
Internet-in-a-Box is a tiny, powerful 'Digital Library of Alexandria' that can be set up by any school, medical clinic or community worldwide.
k0s is the simple, solid & certified Kubernetes distribution that works on any infrastructure: bare-metal, on-premises, edge, IoT, public & private clouds.
OpenSearch is the trusted, vendor-neutral open source platform for AI powered-search, analytics, observability, and vector database solutions. Built for speed, security and flexibility, OpenSearch is the platform of choice for developers and large-scale applications.
KDE, the KDE Software Compilation, is a contemporary desktop environment for UNIX, Linux and BSD workstations. KDE seeks to fulfill the need for an easy to use desktop for, similar to those found on Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating system.
Valkey is an open source (BSD) high-performance key/value datastore that supports a variety of workloads such as caching, message queues, and can act as a primary database. The project is backed by the Linux Foundation, ensuring it will remain open source forever.
The OWASP Los Angeles chapter founded in 2008, is one of the most active chapters of the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP), a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization focused on improving the security of all software. Our mission is to improve software security through Open Source initiatives, community education, and networking. Recognized for its Top-10 list, OWASP has elevated its AI-focused work through the OWASP GenAI Security Project, now a flagship initiative of the Foundation, advancing secure AI adoption and governance, including frameworks, policies, and best practices.
Asterisk, sponsored by Sangoma, is a free open source framework for building communications applications. Having started as a disruptive phone system over 25 years ago, it has evolved into a powerful telephony toolkit, enabling developers to create innovative solutions with ease. Thanks to its flexibility and community contributions, Asterisk continues to expand, offering endless possibilities in the communications space.
Sangoma is a global leader in essential business communications, providing a complete suite of solutions for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Its offerings include unified communications (UC) built in-house, networking, SIP trunking, wholesale voice, and security—bundled to provide a single trusted source for communications.
As the primary developer of Asterisk, the world’s most widely used open source communications framework, Sangoma remains at the forefront of business communication evolution. Having started as a disruptive phone system over 25 years ago, Asterisk has evolved into a powerful telephony toolkit, enabling developers to build innovative solutions. Thanks to its flexibility and community contributions, Asterisk continues to expand, offering endless possibilities in the communications space.
ShadowBlip is a collection of developers and open source software projects focused on enhancing gaming on Linux with handheld PCs and other console-like systems, including kernel drivers, input management (InputPlumber), game launcher and overlay (OpenGamepadUI), and TDP/performance (PowerStation); projects which are are used in many popular gaming distributions such as SteamOS, Nobara, Playtron, and more
The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)® is a not-for-profit, international organization of information security professionals and practitioners. It provides educational forums, publications, and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill, and professional growth of its members.
The primary goal of the ISSA is to promote management practices that will ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information resources. The ISSA facilitates interaction and education to create a more successful environment for global information systems security and for the professionals involved. Members include practitioners at all levels of the security field in a broad range of industries such as communications, education, healthcare, manufacturing, financial, and government.
