We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the following organizations whose annual contributions of $25,000 or more during fiscal years 2024 and 2025 have been vital to the Open Source Lab’s operations and ability to serve the open source community.

IBM is a long-standing supporter of the Open Source Lab, contributing both valuable hardware resources and financial support.

A strong advocate, sponsor, and contributor to the Linux developer community and open technology development, IBM continues this tradition by generously contributing POWER servers to the OSL. These systems provide essential infrastructure for the community to develop Linux and open source projects on the Power Architecture. For more information and SSH-based remote access, please visit our development hosting page.

Red Hat is the leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, specializing in Linux, cloud computing, and container technologies.

Red Hat’s mission is to advance open source development and foster innovation across the technology industry. Their commitment to the open source community is demonstrated through significant financial contributions that enable the OSL to continue providing critical infrastructure and support to open source projects worldwide.

Microsoft is a global technology leader with extensive involvement in the open source ecosystem, maintaining thousands of open source projects on GitHub.

Microsoft supports the OSL through generous financial contributions, recognizing the vital role that open source infrastructure plays in enabling innovation and community-driven development. This funding helps the OSL deliver reliable hosting and services to the open source community.

Intel is a global leader in silicon manufacturing and computing technology.

Intel has significantly supported the OSL by donating modern server hardware. This contribution has been crucial for refreshing our systems with newer, more powerful, and energy-efficient infrastructure, enhancing the performance and reliability of the open source projects we host.

Google is a global technology leader and a major force in the open source ecosystem.

Google’s support for the OSL comes in the form of substantial financial grants. This funding is critical for providing essential infrastructure services to the open source community, including reliable physical hosting, vital bandwidth, and critical ‘Smart Hands’ support. Beyond their direct support of the OSL, Google is a major contributor to the open source movement, developing numerous open source projects and sponsoring initiatives like the Summer of Code program.

Tag1 Consulting specializes in architecting, optimizing, securing, and delivering large-scale applications and infrastructures.

As demonstrated by their significant contributions to projects like Yjs and Goose, and their position as a leading contributor to Drupal (#2 all-time), Tag1 Consulting is deeply invested in the success of open source. Tag1 supports the OSL through financial contributions, which are vital in enabling us to provide reliable infrastructure and services to the open source community.

TDS Telecom is a major provider of broadband and voice services.

TDS Telecom provides significant support to the OSL through a generous donation of bandwidth. This substantial contribution, totaling 40 gigabits over a five-year period, greatly enhances the OSL’s ability to deliver open source software to millions globally. In addition to the bandwidth, TDS hosts several OSU servers in their data centers, enabling the OSL to maintain critical mirroring servers in geographically diverse locations like New York, NY, and Chicago, IL. This distributed infrastructure allows faster, more reliable downloads for users accessing mirrored project files.