 today. We have a very special announcement about a big breakthrough in our Automotive Great Linux platform. I won't spoil it, but just if you go over there around New, you'll hear some great news about H&L. And it's not just in the automotive sector. In cloud computing we have the Cloud Foundry Project, we have the Cloud Native Computing Initiative, which is led by the Kubernetes project. We're home to Node.js, which is the largest server-side JavaScript platform in the world. I think there's something like 15 million downloads a month of Node.js. We're home to the world's largest certificate authority, Lesson Crypt, which provides free certificates for anyone on the internet in order to make the internet more secure. We are home to some of the world's largest software-defined networking projects, projects like the OpenNetwork Automation Platform, which is being used to orchestrate the production infrastructure of over 40% of the world's mobile subscriber base, just an amazing project. So really you can see that the Linux Foundation has expanded beyond Linux, and more importantly open source in general has become a very, very important part of how technology gets created. And the good news is every day there's more and more open source available for everyone to consume. I think it's just amazing to think about the fact that just on GitHub there are 64 million open source repositories, 64 million, just think about that. 21 million developers are working on 64 million projects, and it keeps growing every day. The Apache Software Foundation is home to hundreds of projects, the Eclipse Foundation, hundreds of open source projects, and there are just so many open source projects out there, it is hard to even believe. But the key question that I think we all should think about at this event is not how much open source software is out there, but the real question is what open source projects really matter. What open source projects are really important to industry, important to society, important to government, and important to all of us. And when we looked at that, the Linux Foundation, what we find is that projects that have lots and lots of value that are widely deployed in mission critical infrastructure, they are not, out of those 64 million, it's a very, very small percentage. And so what we started asking ourselves at the Foundation is, what are the characteristics of those really most important open source projects? What is it about them that makes them different than the other 63 million projects that are out there? And the answer is open source projects with sustainable ecosystems are the projects that become most important to industry. And so think of it as a very simple formula. The most important open source projects out there are projects that start with really good code, that solves a really important problem. In the case of automotive grade Linux, the problem they're solving is how do you create an automotive software experience that heads up display the instrument cluster, the in-vehicle navigation and entertainment system, how do you create that for production vehicles that will be around for 20 years. In the case of Cloud Foundry, how do you create a global developer platform that can enable digital transformation for thousands and thousands of companies around? So you start a great code in a project that solves a big problem. And then organizations, whether it's companies or governments, use that code to create value. Value in the form of profit or in the case of governments, value in the form of maybe more transparency, maybe cost savings, but value nonetheless. And then that value is in turn reinvested back into the project which gets more code, which gets more value for products and services based on that code, which gets more reinvestment and you see that creates a long-term sustainable open source project. It looks like this, where projects become products, create profit that is then reinvested back into the project itself. And one of the other characteristics that we see in the most important open source projects in the world is that they need to be in a place, they need a set of infrastructure that enables thousands of developers, hundreds of companies to come together and co-create software in a place where they can trust each other. And that's really what foundations enable. Foundations enable projects to create big communities to solve hard problems, enable organizations to trust that code, to trust that it's in a safe place so they can create products that create profit and so on and so forth. This is the fundamental idea of what foundations like the Linux Foundation or many other open source foundations really do. And creating sustainability requires real work, work that we at the Linux Foundation are hard at work at every single day. You need an organization that can hold the assets of the development process, the trademark, don't manage the copyright, you can have them manage the development process. You need a development process itself, a way for developers and organizations to make technical decisions. You need infrastructure to be able to co-create, whether it's testing infrastructure or legal infrastructure, you need this to co-create. You need to be able to grow an ecosystem. It turns out in open source marketing matters, you need a way to promote your project to get more developers and more organizations working on it and creating products based on that project in order to get that reinforcement to happen. And finally you need legal management because essentially software creation is the sharing of intellectual property. And you need a safe and orderly way to manage that intellectual property in a trusted environment, whether it's managing the copyright, whether it's licensing a trademark in exchange for some sort of compliance program or so forth. You need all of these things in order to really achieve large scale impact as an open source project. And that's really what the Linux Foundation is able to do. And so the final question I think about what really makes important open source projects is to sort of think about what the future of open source looks like and put it in that context. And you know, when they look forward five years from now, ten years from now, the question is not only about open source projects matter, but will open source matter in the future? Or maybe we'll go back to proprietary software or maybe everything will shift to a different model. And what we see at the Linux Foundation is that open source is really becoming a permanent part of modern technology development and modern software development. And it's mainly due to three big megatrends. And those trends were, I think, first identified by Tim O'Reilly a few years ago, but have really come together just in the last few years. And those three big trends are first the commoditization of IT and software technology. A good example of this is in the networking sector, where things that were previously sold as hardware appliances in networking are now being essentially created and abstracted into software and delivered as virtual networking solution, network function, virtualization, software defined networking. And that software is being delivered on commodity white box hardware in many cases. So that commoditization is creating tremendous change in the IT sector. And remember that change creates big opportunities. The second big megatrend that we're seeing in addition to commoditization of IT is mass collaboration. And really the Linux Foundation is at the center of this and so we understand this very, very well. Not only has the industry and society realized that open source development is a faster, better, cheaper way to deliver software, but what we did not expect is that software developers themselves would be incredibly motivated to use this form of development. That for many software developers, open source is more than just a job. Developing open source is something that they love to do in order to solve big problems, in order to increase their reputation amongst their peers, and in order to just simply have fun in the act of solving hard problems together. This was something that wasn't really apparent in the early days of open source, but now many, many years later this is something that is creating a further faster trend in terms of how software is developed because you have incredibly motivated software developers in these open source communities. So the commoditization combined with collaboration are really important, but the third important megatrend that's making open source the standard way of developing software is really the advent of cloud computing or software as a service. And this is incredibly important because the very nature of the technology industry is shifting from a product industry where you sell this hardware or license a piece of software to a service industry, where software and hardware are just part of the bill of materials, part of the cost of delivering a service. Whether it's on Amazon or Google or Microsoft's cloud, what's really happened here is that software has moved from the profit side of the accounting ledger to the cost side of the accounting ledger. And when you move from profit to cost, the software that is free is going to win every single time. And those are the big trends that matter here. It's this combination of commoditization, collaboration and cloud that really make open source the finding way to deliver software. And that is only accelerating as we move faster and faster towards these trends for the next five to ten years portion. So open source is definitely here to stay. It's important for all of you to understand that. And in open source, the projects that have the most value to your company, to your industry, to your career are those that have sustainability assistance. This week we are going to see dozens and dozens of open source projects that fit that description. And I hope you will take the opportunity to talk with the core developers who are creating this code to speak with the leaders who are helping to manage these projects. They're all here in Japan and we're very excited to be here with all of you. Thank you very much. Our next keynote session will be a panel discussion on cloud 8 computing. So we will be discussing about how projects like Kubernetes, Fluent, Open Dressing and LinkedIn actually shape and help shaping modern infrastructure. The moderator of this session is Chris Anizet, CEO of the Cloud 8 Computing Foundation. So please welcome Chris and Chris will be joining us. My name is Chris Anizet. I'm the CEO of the Cloud 8 Computing Foundation. I was kind of there from the beginning. I was also founding Secretary Brecker and kind of been with the Foundation since inception. Today's panel is all around kind of cloud-native technology, what is clouding to mean and kind of hears and voices from different projects and interleaders. So first off to my left, we have a kind of brought up from Microsoft. Nice to meet you. Ian Lewis from Google. Hi. I'm Eduardo Silla from Trader Data in the Fluent D project. So I kind of kicked things off. I wish I had a little trigger on there. So I'll give a little bit of history of CNCF. So, you know, CNCF was formed in December 2015. It was kind of when we first officially kicked things off. And kind of I'll give you some of the background of history that so a lot of people are aware that Google outsourced Kubernetes, just kind of as key orchestration technology. And at the time they approached the Linux Foundation to kind of build a home, a neutral home for Kubernetes. And you know, some of the initial discussions were, well, you know, do we just want to kind of build a Kubernetes foundation or do we kind of build, you know, build something more than just that. So originally, you know, we decided to focus on the whole notion of cloud-native computing, which essentially all cloud-native computing means is you have services, microservices, whatever you want to call them, running containers that are orchestrated by some central process. That's all cloud-native computing means. So orchestration is just a bit of that. And so when we're forming CNCF, we realize that, you know, yes, Kubernetes is kind of the same project and one of our most important projects. But there's a whole other slew of technologies around monitoring, tracing, logging, and so on that will kind of come into the foundation to kind of make up the whole concept of cloud-native computing. And so that's kind of where we are today. Just a couple of weeks ago, we announced our 10th project to join the foundation called Container Network Interface of CNI for short. And so we've kind of grown over the, you know, over 18 months that we've been...