Keynote: LF Research: Developer-Centric Insights and Opportunities
summary
LF Research launches April 2021 and has published 13 projects revealing concrete findings: 45% prohibition of open‑source contributions in financial services, two thirds of developers say they need more training, and developers spend only 2% of their time on security. Census2 uses data from Snyk FOSSA and Synopsys and finds only 24% report strong dependency management; a Harvard collaboration shows 136 devs produce >80% of code in a top‑50 package. Upcoming work includes SBoM/security tooling reports, a maintainer study, and a Europe survey.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 0:07Linux Foundation Research
- 0:54Linux Kernel History
- 1:22The Foss Contributor Study
- 3:09Conducting Open Source Research
- 6:42The Developer Community
- 8:44Policy Barriers
- 19:55Improving Dependency Management
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