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[Matter](https://buildwithmatter.com/) is an open standard for smart home technology that lets your device work with any Matter-certified ecosystem using a single protocol. Matter comes from the [Connectivity Standards Alliance](https://csa-iot.org/), an organization of hundreds of companies(Amazon, Apple, Google, Comcast, Zigbee Alliance, and Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) creating products for the smart home.

[Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA)](https://www.oshwa.org) is a non-profit organization that advocates for open-source hardware. It aims to act as a hub of open source hardware activity of all types while actively cooperating with other initiatives such as the TAPR Open Hardware License, open-source development groups at CERN, and the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

[The Open Connectivity Foundation](https://openconnectivity.org) is dedicated to ensuring secure interoperability for consumers, businesses and industries by delivering a standard communications platform, a bridging specification, an open source implementation and a certification program allowing devices to communicate regardless of form factor, operating system, service provider, transport technology or ecosystem.

[Raspberry Pi Foundation](https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/) is a UK-based charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. 

[OpenSSF(Open Source Security Foundation)](https://openssf.org/) is a cross-industry forum for a collaborative effort to improve open source software security. 

[OpenJS Foundation](https://openjsf.org/) is the premier home for critical open source JavaScript projects, including Appium, Dojo, jQuery, Node.js, and webpack, and 27 more.

[EdgeX Foundry](https://www.edgexfoundry.org) is a vendor-neutral project under the Linux Foundation. The initiative is aligned around a common goal: the simplification and standardization of the foundation for edge computing architectures in the Industrial IoT market, while still allowing the ecosystem to add significant value.

[Eclipse Foundation](https://www.eclipse.org) provides our global community of individuals and organizations with a mature, scalable and commercially-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation.