Lightning Talk: From Fork To Foundation: The OpenSearch Journey To the Linux Found...
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OpenSearch starts as a 2021 fork after Elasticsearch relicensing and lands in the Linux Foundation in September 2024, with 650 pull requests, 56,000 files changed, and 4.5 million lines modified to produce a stable 1.0 and later community-led releases 3.0 (May 2025) and 3.1. Project builds vector search, AI features, observability and cloud-native architecture, integrates OpenTelemetry, Lucene, Kafka, Arrow and Calcite, attracts maintainers from 25+ organizations, 14 foundation members, and ~1M monthly visitors.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00OpenSearch journey intro
- 1:50Fork of Elasticsearch
- 3:39OpenSearch 1.0 release
- 4:23Building open-source community
- 5:49Trust after licensing changes
- 6:57Governance transformation
- 8:00Joining Linux Foundation
- 9:27OpenSearch 3.0 milestones
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