Query Con 2019: A Turning Point for osquery

Summary: On June 18, 2019, the Linux Foundation announced it would take over ownership of osquery from Facebook, with a new Technical Steering Committee of engineers from Facebook, Trail of Bits, Google, and Kolide. In the 12 weeks after QueryCon 2019, nearly 90 pull requests were merged into the project, most from outside Facebook, compared with roughly 35 merged in the nine months before the event.
What's compelling: The project's release cadence had stalled since August 2018, and the governance shift moved control of funding, infrastructure, hosting, and engineer review to a new committee of maintainers - a concrete stake for the growing list of companies that rely on osquery for endpoint protection.

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