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About Canonical (organization)

This page provides details about Canonical (organization) which was ranked #7 out of 43 in the list of brands (7 mentions (6% share)) in answers from AI models (OpenAI ChatGPT Latest, Google Gemini Flash (latest), X.AI Grok (latest)) when they were asked the following 1 question: "If I'm looking to get into Open Source Projects, who and what should I know about? Include the most trusted brands, recommended products and services, reputable companies and providers, influential experts and reviewers to follow, helpful communities and resources, important events and conferences, notable startups disrupting the space, and key publications and media channels to stay informed." on Dec 30, 2025 by AI Chat Watch.

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Citations from AI Responses

If I'm looking to get into Open Source Projects, who and what should I know about? Include the most trusted brands, recommended products and services, reputable companies and providers, influential experts and reviewers to follow, helpful communities and resources, important events and conferences, notable startups disrupting the space, and key publications and media channels to stay informed.

[...] tps://spdx.org/licenses/)) - [OpenSSF](https://openssf.org/) (security initiatives across open source) ## 2) Core “how open source works” concepts to learn early - Licensing basics and picking/understanding licenses: [Choose a License](https://choosealicense.com/) (practical summaries), plus the canonical license texts from the relevant stewards like [GNU Licenses](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/) and [Apache Licenses](https://www.apache.org/licenses/) - “Inbound=Outbound” contribution norms: - [Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)](https://developercertificate.org/) (common in Linux ecosystem) - [...]

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[...] unity platforms: - Forums: [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/) - Chat: [Matrix](https://matrix.org/), [Zulip](https://zulip.com/), [Slack](https://slack.com/) ## 4) Tooling you’ll actually use to contribute (recommended products/services) **Version control & workflow** - Learn Git from the canonical docs: [Git Book (Pro Git)](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2) and [git-scm.com](https://git-scm.com/) - Git hosting features that matter: - [GitHub Pull Requests](https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests) (how review/merging works) - [GitLab Merge Requests](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/ [...]

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[...] ender.org/) - [VLC](https://www.videolan.org/vlc/) ## 7) Reputable companies/providers built around open source (to watch/learn from) These organizations often publish strong engineering content and run open projects: - Linux distros & enterprise OSS: - [Red Hat](https://www.redhat.com/) - [Canonical (Ubuntu)](https://canonical.com/) - [SUSE](https://www.suse.com/) - Dev/platform companies with major OSS footprints: - [GitHub](https://github.com/) - [GitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/) - Observability: - [Grafana Labs](https://grafana.com/) - Infrastructure-as-code ecosystem: - [HashiC [...]

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