Fostering open industry collaboration to develop new industry platforms through vendor-neutral governance and comprehensive foundation services.
Explore ServicesCompanies, organizations, and individuals looking to drive innovation and efficiencies within industry are increasingly looking to external sources to advance new ideas. Commonly referred to as "open innovation," this paradigm encourages collaboration across organizational boundaries.
Working Groups allow organizations to combine the best practices of open source development with a set of services required for open innovation, enabling organizations to foster industry collaborations with vendor-neutral governance.
The collaboration promotes and augments TCTF technologies to meet the needs of specific industries and communities, including through the development and implementation of joint marketing programs to increase awareness, adoption, and contributions.
Through Working Groups, member organizations can collaborate to accomplish these objectives
Help improve the supply chain of software development tools, frameworks, and runtimes in a particular industry
Develop specifications in open source
Create new technology platforms that increase interoperability among organizations and technologies
Drive industry adoption and support of strategic open source projects and technologies
Developer advocacy, marketing outreach, and brand promotion
Compatibility programs ensuring interoperability
The Cometbid Foundation provides comprehensive services to support Working Group success
The Cometbid Foundation provides governance controlling how decisions are made, policies are set, and disputes resolved. All entities participate based strictly on contributions and merit, with no special status or veto for any individual or organization.
Our marketing professionals support working groups with brand development, press and analyst relations, content creation, event coordination, advertising, social media management, and other working group-specific activities.
Working groups coordinate efforts of separate open source projects by providing shared vision and roadmaps. The Foundation helps set up shared responsibilities, manages budgets, and provides governance for shared initiatives.
Comprehensive specification development services including technical review processes, compatibility testing frameworks, and certification programs to ensure interoperability across implementations.
Follow these steps to establish a new Working Group collaboration
Recognize an industry need that requires collective investment and formal collaboration.
Build a coalition of member organizations committed to participating and investing.
Define governance, participation agreements, program plans, and budgets.
Begin collaborative work on specifications, platforms, and marketing initiatives.
Discover the advantages of participating in Cometbid Foundation Working Groups
Operate under established bylaws, agreements, and policies ensuring fair, merit-based participation for all members.
Access professional marketing support including brand development, PR, content creation, and event coordination.
Coordinate efforts across open source projects with shared vision, roadmaps, and resource management.
Develop specifications with technical review processes, compatibility testing, and certification programs.
Create joint brands and compatibility programs to increase adoption and ensure interoperability.
Benefit from comprehensive intellectual property management and licensing frameworks.
Find answers to common questions about Working Groups
Working Groups are formal industry collaborations that enable organizations to combine open source development best practices with services required for open innovation. They provide vendor-neutral governance for members to collaborate on solving industry problems and driving shared innovation through related open source projects.
Participation in Working Groups is only open to Cometbid Foundation members. Organizations must join the Foundation and then execute the required participation agreements for specific Working Groups they wish to join.
The Foundation provides vendor-neutral governance, ecosystem development and marketing services, collaborative management, specification development, branding and compatibility programs, intellectual property management and licensing, shared IT infrastructure, and development processes.
Working Groups operate under formal governance with committees and structured decision-making processes. All entities participate based on their contributions and merit, ensuring no single organization has special status or veto power.
There is a tight coupling between Working Groups and open source projects hosted at the Cometbid Foundation. Working Groups help coordinate efforts of otherwise separate projects by providing shared vision, roadmaps, and determining how to leverage resources to best serve the open source community.
Working Groups require collective investment through participation fees and have formal governance with participation agreements, charters, committees, and budgets. Interest Groups are lightweight, self-governed associations without fees or formal agreements, ideal for exploring topics before committing to formal collaboration.
Join an existing Working Group or propose a new one to start collaborating with fellow Cometbid Foundation members on industry-changing initiatives.