Supported by Our Member Organizations, The Cometbid Technology Foundation Provides the Community With Intellectual Property, Mentorship, Marketing, Event and IT Services.
Take an active role in supporting sustainable, commercializable open source technologies that benefit the global technology community and drive innovation forward.
and provide contributions to TCTF projects and Industry Collaborations.
Code is one of your most important assets. Let us help support and advance the critical technologies your business relies upon for long-term success.
while focusing resources on rapidly building differentiated features that customers value most.
Solid intellectual property management, and inclusive open source community development.
Your experience and best practices on open source with industry peers.
and good corporate citizenship through contributions to projects.
The TCTF community has a well-earned reputation for providing high-quality software, reliably and predictably. The Cometbid Foundation provides services and support to help projects consistently achieve their goals. Our staff assists new projects in implementing the development process, a set of procedures and best practices that ensure excellence and sustainability.
We focus on enabling the use of open source technology in commercial software products and services. All projects are licensed under OSI-approved licenses including the Cometbid Public License (CPL). In addition, the Cometbid Foundation's due diligence process helps to validate the pedigree of the intellectual property contained in our projects, ensuring legal compliance and protecting contributors.
The Cometbid Foundation's vendor-neutral marketing programs promote growth and engagement, drive awareness and discoverability of projects and collaborations, and increase the commercial adoption of technologies. The Foundation coordinates and implements a variety of activities, including content creation, press and analyst relations, community conferences and events, advertising, social media management, and other programs to promote the entire TCTF community and increase engagement.
The Cometbid Foundation provides vendor-neutral, reliable and scalable services for our technology developers and users. IT infrastructure services delivered to the community include source code repositories, build infrastructure, development-oriented mailing lists and newsgroups, a downloads site, and project and working group websites.