Important

On June 26 2024, Linux Foundation announced the merger of its financial services umbrella, the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), with OS-Climate, an open source community dedicated to building data technologies, modeling, and analytic tools that will drive global capital flows into climate change mitigation and resilience; OS-Climate projects are in the process of transitioning to the FINOS governance framework; read more on finos.org/press/finos-join-forces-os-open-source-climate-sustainability-esg

OS-Climate

Community Hub

OS-Climate is part of The Linux Foundation® (LF)

OS-Climate Intro: Watch Video (1 min)

Community Resources & General OS-Climate Information

• Getting Started, On-boarding Guide: Link to Guide
  • You can also attend an on-boarding session.
• OS-Climate website: https://os-climate.org/
• OS-Climate 101: Watch Video
• Have technical questions or want to learn more from our developer/engineering community? Come to our Data Commons Office Hours! Every Tues at 10:00AM ET Teams Meeting Link
• System or ODH Issues?
  • Outage/System Failures: File an LF outage ticket (note: select OS-Climate from project list)
  • New infrastructure request (e.g., software upgrade): File an LF ticket (note: select OS-Climate from project list)
  • General infrastructure support: Get help on Slack ODH channel OR Data Commons channel

Join one of our meetings! Subscribe to a group list! Connect over Slack!

• Community Calendar (Meetings & Events): Link to Calendar
  • List of OS-Climate's Recurring Meetings (community-wide and project specific)
• Recordings of Prior Events: Watch Events
• Recordings of Prior Meetings: View Meetings
• Connect via Slack (os-climate.slack.com): Join Slack
• Info on how to subscribe to OS-C's group e-mail lists: Group Distro Lists

Overview of OS-C's Projects/Workstreams

Please review the FAQ to obtain a grounding in OS-Climate's Data Commons and Analytics Tools.

• Analytical Tools: Quick Start Guides & Demos
  • Physical Risk & Resilience
  • Transition Analysis
  • Portfolio Alignment
• Technical Overviews
  • Development and Coding Best Practices
  • UPDATED JAN-2023 Data Commons Developer Guide
  • Presentation about Data Commons
  • Presentation about Analytical Tools, incl. Entity Matching and Data Extraction
• Data Commons: Read Me
• Data Exchange: Read Me
• Physical Risk & Resilience: Read Me
• Transition Analysis: Read Me
• Portfolio Alignment/Implied Temperature Rise: Read Me
• Data Extraction/AI Overview: Read Me
• Corporate Hierarchy Tool - Entity Matching/GLEIF: Read Me
• Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) Sovereign Footprint Calculations: Read Me

Access to Repos, Open MetaData, Trino Data, & Projects

Open an issue on the Community Hub for the following: Open Issue

• Request credentials for an OS-Climate bucket
• Request Onboarding to OSC Data Commons
• Request memberships on OS-Climate github org and credentials for Trino
• Report a security vulnerability

OS-Climate's Cluster Information

• Cluster 1 CL1: used for development and initial upgrades of applications
• Cluster 2 CL2: stable cluster, sandbox UI and released versions of tools are available from cluster 2
• Cluster 3 CL3: administrative cluster, managed by Red Hat and Linux Foundation IT org
• Cluster 4 CL4: latest implementation of Red Hat's Data Mesh pattern - under construction. Follows Open Data HubData Mesh Pattern.

Open MetaData

• Login and view data

Trino Access

• Sample file to establish credentials/set up your environment
• Click here for your Cluster 1 JWT Token
• Click here for your Cluster 2 JWT Token
• Accessing Trino: introductory tutorial notebook
• Sample notebook for accessing Riskthinking.AI's federated datasets

 Protect Your Credentials

• Keep your credentials.env one directory level above your GitHub tree, so GitHub can never see it. Learn more

Project/workstream Repos

• Need permissions to a particular repo and/or project? Please contact the appropriate admin listed here: Admin List
• Want more information on how to contribute code or data? Please see Contribution Guidelines

Project Boards

• Program Mgmt Office Project Board
• Data Commons/Data Mesh Project Board
• Data Commons/Data Mesh Q4 2023 Project Board
• Data As Code POC Project Board
• Data Exchange Project Board
• Sector Alignment Project Board
• Physical Risk & Resilience Project Board

Data Sources

Browse OS-C Data Sources Using Open MetaData

Available Data Sources: Open MetaData SignIn

Example Public Datasets Available List

Need More Data?

Data Commons enables federation with external data sources as well as ingestion/storage of data within the Data Commons. To request data, please create an issue under the Data-Requests repo:

• Dataset Request
• Dataset Request (spreadsheet specific)

Data Ingestion Pipelines/Repos: Read Me

• Standardized Data Ingestion Workflow Tool

Member Organizations

• Current members: View List
• Organizations interested in membership? Join Us: Enroll
• Please Note: you/your organization does not need to be a member to contribute your skills, time, code, and/or data.

Charter & Oversight (also see Governance section below & https://os-climate.org/governance/)

• OS-Climate Charter, Participation Agreement & Membership Agreement: members are expected to adhere to the following agreements signed at the onset of their membership,
  1. OS-Climate Participation Agreement & Charter: View OS-C Agreement/Charter
  2. Linux Foundation Membership Agreement: View LF Member Agreement
• Governing Board (fee-paying members + Academia, IGO, NGO) decides strategy, priorities, & budget. (see Governance section below for more info)
  1. Premier Membership: $100K/year; General Membership $30K/year; Associate Membership (Academia, IGO, NGO): $0K/year
  2. Meets every 3rd Wednesday of the month
• Technical Advisory Council (TAC) sets technical vision, facilitates collaboration among the Technical Projects, and recommends budget and technical decisions to Board.
  1. Comprised of TSC chairpersons and Premier Members’ technical delegates.
  2. Meets 2nd and 4th Monday of the month
• Technical Steering Committees (TSCs) are responsible for technical oversight of each Project (meet weekly, see community calendar for days/times).
  1. Data Commons Charter: View Charter
  2. Physical Risk & Resilience Charter: View Charter
  3. Portfolio Alignment Charter: View Charter
  4. Transition Analysis Charter: View Charter

Security, Legal & Governance

OS-Climate is part of The Linux Foundation® (LF). All rights reserved. The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our Trademark Usage page. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Privacy Policy (https://linuxfoundation.org/privacy-policy/) and Terms of Use (https://linuxfoundation.org/terms/).

• To report a Security concern and/or incident, please send an email to: security@os-climate.org

• Governance Info: the OS-C Governing Board meets on the 3rd Wednesday of every month. Premium members can name a person to serve on the Governing Board and the Technical Advisory Council (TAC). General members can select a person to represent them as a Board Observer, attending quarterly Governing Board meetings.

Additionally, for every 4 General Members, one Board member will be elected to represent this cohort. Associate members can select a person to represent them as a Board Observer, attending quarterly Governing Board meetings. Additionally, Associate members can elect one Academic, one IGO, and one NGO member to represent them on the Governing Board.

Physical Risk & Resilience, Data Commons, Portfolio Alignment, and Transition Analysis projects are governed by Technical Steering Committees (TSCs). The chair people (elected by project contributors) for these TSCs also serve as members of the TAC.

For more information, including links to applicable charters, please see the on-boarding guide referenced above or visit https://os-climate.org/governance//.

• Policies: OS-Climate abides by all of the following Linux Foundation policies: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/policies/

• Code of Conduct: all community members are expected to abide by the LF Projects Code of Conduct

• DCO: all project contributors are expected to adhere to the Linux Foundation DCO Policy. See our Contributions Guidelines for more information about DCO signoffs and fixing signoff failures: Contribution Guidelines

Licenses

Unless otherwise specified in a given repository's LICENSE file:

• OS-Climate code is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
• OS-Climate data is distributed under CDLA, Version 2.0 (https://cdla.dev/permissive-2-0/).

Please see OS-Climate Data Licensing Principles for more details: Licensing Info

OS-Climate's Business Model

• OS-Climate Business Model: non-profit 501(c)(6) business association under the Linux Foundation (largest organizer of open-source tech initiatives globally); platform management and development funded by annual member fees plus philanthropic grants.
• Why Open Source? To overcome data & analytics barriers which block investments needed to meet Paris Climate Accord goals, we apply the community-based open-source approach that enabled major breakthroughs in Life Sciences & Tech (Human Genome Project, COVID Vaccines, Hyperledger, Linux OS). Please see https://os-climate.org/about-open-source/
• OS-Climate's Theory of Change: https://os-climate.org/theory-of-change/