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DUBLIN — https://thenewstack.io/open-source-summit-introducing-linux-foundation-europe/ according to The Linux Foundation’s first-ever survey of them released in September, are driven more by idealism than their American counterparts. https://thenewstack.simplecast.com/episodes/making-europes-romantic-open-source-world-more-practical A big part of https://www.linkedin.com/in/columbro mission as the general manager of the new Linux Foundation Europe, will be to marry Europe’s “romantic” view of open source to greater commercial opportunities, Columbro told The New Stack’s Makers podcast. The On the Road episode of Makers, recorded in Dublin at Open Source Summit Europe, was hosted by Heather Joslyn, TNS’s features editor.

For individual developers, he said, Linux Foundation Europe will help give regional projects increased visibility and greater access to potential contributors. Contributing a project to Linux Foundation Europe, he said, is “a powerful way to potentially supercharge your project.”