News briefs for August 30, 2018.
Google is handing over control of the Kubernetes project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. According to the TechCrunch[1] post, Google is providing the foundation $9 million in Google Cloud credits to help cover the costs of building, testing and distributing the software.
Kinetica[2], "the insight engine for the Extreme Data Economy", is "taking steps to bring advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and its GPU engine to the global automotive industry" and becoming a silver member of The Linux Foundation and a bronze member of Automotive Grade Linux. Kinetica also has announced it is releasing Mapbox[3], its location data platform for mobile and web applications, to the Open Source community.
NordVPN recently released the NordVPN Linux app[4]. This dedicated app for Linux makes it even easier to install the VPN on your machine. For more information and to download, visit the NordVPN for Linux download page[5].
Storj Labs[6], a decentralized cloud storage company, has announced The Open Source Partner Program, "a partnership that will enable open-source projects to generate revenue when their users store data in the cloud". According to ZDNet[7], Storj's executive chairman Ben Golub calls Storj Labs' decentralized storage technology "AirBnB for hard drives", and says that "the Storj network, unlike conventional cloud storage, will provide a sustaining revenue stream to open-source projects using the Storj network." It plans to give 60% of its gross revenue to the storage farmers and split the remaining 40% with open-source developers.
Purism yesterday provided an update on the development of its Chatty chat application[8] for the Librem 5 phone. According to the post, "At the moment Chatty can perform some basic (and arguably most difficult task of) send and receive operations with SMS via ModemManager