The Linux Foundation has launched the Urban Computing Foundation, a platform to support the build of open source software for use in urban planning. Here’s the list of TAC members: The first project hosted by the Urban Computing Foundation is Kepler.gl, Uber’s open source, no-code geospatial analysis tool for creating large-scale data sets. The foundation will be led by former Microsoft executive and Google director of engineering Chris DiBona, who is also an advisor at Open Source Initiative (OSI) Uber, Facebook, Google, Here Technologies, IBM and the University of California San Diego are among the founding participants and Uber’s no-code big data geospatial analysis tool Kepler.gl, used by firms including Airbnb and Atkins Global, will be the foundation’s first project.
The Linux Foundation has launched the Urban Computing Foundation, a platform to support the build of open source software for use in urban planning. The foundation will be led by former Microsoft executive and Google director of engineering Chris DiBona, who is also an advisor at Open Source Initiative (OSI) Uber, Facebook, Google, Here Technologies, IBM and the University of California San Diego are among the founding participants and Uber’s no-code big data geospatial analysis tool Kepler.gl, used by firms including Airbnb and Atkins Global, will be the foundation’s first project.