How can corporations support open source maintainers? Beyond direct sponsorship, what creative funding models actually help you sustain your work? Let's discuss.
Open source runs on a small pool of maintainers—etcd & ingress-nginx showed what happens when it shrinks.
@CloudNativeFdn's Merge Forward brings underrepresented groups into cloud native through 8 monthly community groups to build a more resilient supply chain.
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modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk v1.7.0 is out!
Maintained in collaboration with Google, the Go SDK now supports the latest MCP (stateless) protocol (2026-07-28):
• Stateless execution
• server/discover RPC
• MRTR & OAuth session support
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Transparent post-mortems strengthen collective defense.
Hugging Face's technical breakdown of an agent intrusion highlights a major win for open source: proprietary API models refused to parse exploit logs, locally hosted open-weights models (GLM-5.2) solved the forensic puzzle.
The new Model Context Protocol spec (2026-07-28) is live!
We’re honored to have co-led the Transport WG to introduce a stateless protocol core to MCP. Learning from scaling Google Cloud’s database MCP tools, this update brings greater reliability to everyone.
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