OpenSSL Communities

Communities - Small Businesses

The Small Businesses group includes companies with fewer than 100 employees. These organisations rely on the OpenSSL Foundation and the OpenSSL Corporation projects for robust security and privacy tools at scale. Their involvement ensures that the projects continue to serve the needs of smaller enterprises, contributing valuable insights into practical, resource-conscious implementations and fostering innovation in secure software practices.

Each participating business appoints a delegate, responsible for casting a single vote on behalf of the company during elections and other formal decision-making processes.

Delegates & advisory committee seats: every participating business is represented by one delegate — its voice and vote in the community. To change who represents your business, contact your community's BAC members (TAC as failover). Both Small Businesses seats are currently open — nominations are very welcome.

Two short guides:
What a delegate is, plus the participation standard: https://openssl-communities.org/d/BzSv8ERu
How to nominate someone (or yourself) for a BAC or TAC seat: https://openssl-communities.org/d/Nmgwvfoc


Academics | Committers | Distributions | Individuals | Large Businesses | Small Businesses


Corporation Advisory: 💼 vacant / Business ; 🛠️ vacant / Technical

Foundation Advisory: 💼 vacant / Business ; 🛠️ @Aditya Koranga / Technical


General Discussion

Foundation Advisory Committee nominations (2026)
1 itemsLast active August 4th, 2026 00:22
Small Businesses: delegate participation, action needed by Friday June 19
3 itemsLast active July 27th, 2026 15:28
Corporation BAC & TAC — July minutes are up
1 itemsLast active July 27th, 2026 13:38
What the Brno F2F means for Small Businesses — and an invitation
4 itemsLast active June 18th, 2026 07:05
Foundation BAC Small Business election
5 itemsLast active December 22nd, 2025 18:17
Reminder to vote for your Foundation BAC representative
1 itemsLast active December 19th, 2025 15:20
OpenSSL at Open Source Summit Japan & OpenSearchCon (08-11 Dec 2025)
1 itemsLast active December 6th, 2025 14:17
OpenSSL moving to clang-format
1 itemsLast active November 28th, 2025 13:20
OpenSSL Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy: Request for Feedback
15 itemsLast active November 25th, 2025 14:22
OpenSSL at Singapore Fintech Festival
1 itemsLast active November 16th, 2025 12:28
FYI: new code point has been assigned by IANA for hybrid PQC KEM
1 itemsLast active November 15th, 2025 16:05
Foundation BAC nomination period has started
1 itemsLast active November 6th, 2025 14:49
Small Business at PKIC PQC Conference, Kuala Lumpur
3 itemsLast active October 29th, 2025 11:13
Feedback Request: OpenSSL Source Code Reformat
10 itemsLast active October 21st, 2025 15:13
Call for Submissions: the Next-Generation Commercial Cryptographic Algorithm Program started
1 itemsLast active October 13th, 2025 10:56
Small Business at SICW / GovWare 2025, Singapore
1 itemsLast active October 13th, 2025 00:00
Small Businesses at ACM CCS Taiwan
1 itemsLast active October 12th, 2025 23:46
Small Businesses is one of the most important parts of OpenSSL, let's make it better
3 itemsLast active October 12th, 2025 23:25
OpenSSL 3.5.3 and 3.6.0 Beta 1 are out
1 itemsLast active September 17th, 2025 08:24
Proposal : PQC & Web3 Meetup in HongKong
7 itemsLast active September 2nd, 2025 08:55
Proposal: Extend OpenSSL Business Advisory Committee Term
4 itemsLast active August 29th, 2025 12:37
Cryptographic Key Management
1 itemsLast active August 26th, 2025 08:13
Quick PQC Reality Check Poll
13 itemsLast active July 21st, 2025 08:56
Foundation BAC Small Business representative special election (July 2025)
4 itemsLast active July 14th, 2025 16:13
OpenSSL 3.5.1 has been released
1 itemsLast active July 2nd, 2025 15:06
OpenSSL Library Binary Distributions and Installers for Microsoft Windows Poll
12 itemsLast active June 27th, 2025 22:48
Foundation BAC special election (Small Business representative)
1 itemsLast active June 10th, 2025 15:02
State of OpenSSL Stacks
2 itemsLast active May 16th, 2025 17:21
OpenSSL Conference 2025
1 itemsLast active May 16th, 2025 11:51
🟩 Small Businesses Election for the OpenSSL Foundation TAC
7 itemsLast active May 11th, 2025 13:12
🟦 Small Businesses Election for the OpenSSL Corporation TAC
7 itemsLast active May 11th, 2025 13:09
Election access problem
4 itemsLast active April 29th, 2025 05:34
Calling for representatives of small businesses to join the Foundation TAC
1 itemsLast active April 15th, 2025 05:56
OpenSSL 3.5.0 LTS has been released
1 itemsLast active April 10th, 2025 00:15
Useful Links
2 itemsLast active March 31st, 2025 00:46
Welcome to the OpenSSL Small Business Community
2 itemsLast active March 27th, 2025 01:47
🔹 Nominate Your Business Voting Representative
30 itemsLast active March 24th, 2025 13:19
OpenSSL Annual Report 2024
2 itemsLast active February 20th, 2025 10:54
Corporation BAC: Election for Small Businesses’ Delegate
4 itemsLast active December 16th, 2024 10:14
Foundation BAC: No Election
1 itemsLast active December 5th, 2024 12:57
OpenSSL Foundation & Corporation BACs Nominations Opens on November 4th!
1 itemsLast active October 30th, 2024 11:42