The Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers will provide a neutral space where industry leaders, academia, developers, and the broader open source community can work together to support projects within the Chromium ecosystem.
By fostering collaboration, the collective aims to remove barriers to innovation, expand adoption, and ensure that projects within the Chromium ecosystem receive the resources they need to thrive.
The Chromium projects themselves will remain under current, existing governance structures while just the new Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers will be housed under the Linux Foundation.
Members of theSupporters For chromium Based Browsers
- Meta
- Opera
- Microsoft
Email info@socbb.org with questions.
SOCBB is composed of Premier and General members. All Members must be current corporate members of the LF (at any level) to participate in the Initiative as a member. Premier Members will be entitled to appoint a representative or representatives to the Governing Board and any Committee.
The General Members will be represented on the Governing Board by one representative to the Governing Board for every five General Members, up to a maximum of three representatives, provided that there will always be at least one General Member representative, even if there are less than five General Members.
All members of SOCBB will be entitled to appoint representatives to the Steering Committee and any working groups.
Premier Member $1,000,000 or $2,000,000
General Member $100,000, $250,000, $500,000, $750,000 or $999.999.99
Your organization will need to be a current member of the LF. If your organization is already a member of the LF, there is no need to do anything. If you are not a member of the LF, there are three tiers of LF membership available. The fees associated with each level of LF membership are included below for non-members to easily reference. Please visit the Corporate Membership page at the LF web site for full details:
● LF Platinum: $500,000
● LF Gold: $100,000
● LF Silver: Under 100 employees: $5,000; 100-499 employees: $10,000; 500-4,999
employees: $15,000; 5,000 or more employees: $20,000.
● LF Associate membership is available for non-profit, open source, and government
entities at no cost.
A: Chromium is the open-source repository and community that is the basis for many browsers, such as Chrome, Edge, Opera or several Android WebViews. SOCBB, on the other hand, is a mechanism to fund improvements to Chromium via joint contributions from some of the top commercial browsers built via Chromium.
A: The focus is to find ways to more sustainably improve Chromium beyond what browsers are already investing in, and to strengthen the Chromium community.
A: There is a Steering Committee that investigates and proposes projects. The committee is open to new ideas from the community; you can email us at info@socbb.org if you have an idea.
A: Coming Soon!
A: Yes! Please submit any project proposals to proposals@socbb.org