Facebook to evolve open source through ‘TO DO’ collaboration

FACEBOOK HAS ANNOUNCED a collaborative open source effort called "TO DO", which it said will help open source to evolve and increase its acceptance.

Facebook revealed "TO DO", or "talk openly, develop openly", on its engineering blog and it has the backing of Zuckerberg's mob and a bunch of other big hitters in Silicon Valley.

Dropbox, Github, Google, Khan Academy, Stripe, Square, Twitter, and Walmart Labs are all named as early movers in the "TO DO" party, and together they hope to "make open source easier for everyone".

"[Today] we joined a number of other companies in launching a new open source collaboration called TODO. The group was formed to address the challenges that companies like ours have encountered in consuming open source software and running open source programs," Facebook said.

"We'll have more to share about our plans in the coming weeks, but our overall goal in this collaboration is to make open source easier for everyone. We want to run better, more impactful open source programs in our own companies; we want to make it easier for people to consume the technologies we open source; and we want to help create a roadmap for companies that want to create their open source programs but aren't sure how to proceed."

Interested parties are invited to join, to get in at the start of this evolution. Facebook open source chap James Pearce said that there is a lot of work in front of them.

"There's a lot of work to do here, and we hope that more companies will join and help us turn this into something amazing," he said.

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