Celebrating Open Anniversary 2021

In 2021, the open source movement will be celebrating several important milestones, including the 30th Anniversary of Linux.

This is a great opportunity to reflect about the impact the open source movement has had on your business and society as a whole. 

The 2021 Open Anniversary celebrations will revolve around 12 themes, one for each month of the year. A major milestone was selected to represent each theme. 

The themes and corresponding milestones are presented below:

• Free Culture (January): 20 years of Wikipedia and Creative Commons;
• Open Source (February): Open Source Initiative was founded;
• Open Business (March): Red Hat celebrates its Anniversary;
• Open Government (April): 15 years of the Sunlight Foundation (legacy);
• Open Knowledge (May): 25 years of the Internet Archive and 20 years of the Wayback Machine;
• Open Hardware (June): Open Source Hardware Association was established;
• Open Education (July): Open Educational Resources was presented;
• Open Web (August): 30 years of the first website and public announcement of the WWW;
• Linux (September): 30 years of Linux, initial release (version 0.0.1);
• Free Software (October): Free Software Foundation was founded;
• Open Access (November): 35 years of Aaron Swartz (in memory of);
• Open Data (December): Open public data was defined.

Each month will focus on an anniversary specific theme, the open source community is encouraged to participate in the activities.

Linux Professional Institute is thrilled to be supporting the Linux Anniversary taking place in the month of September and will also be sharing information and activities on a monthly basis based on the monthly themes as well. CLPI specific content will be generated from LPI partners, members and the overall community.

We look forward to the year ahead! You can find the activities that are taking place on Open Anniversary. LPI specific activities are listed below;

January: Free Culture

• FOSSlife

February: Open Source

• Open Source in the Worldwide COVID-19 Battle

March: Open Business

• Who’s Building Businesses Around Free and Open Source Software

April: Open Government

• Where Transparency, Crowdsourcing, and Open Source Software Meet

Read the first blog of the series