This has been brewing for awhile at work but finally the announcement is public. Previously to join in the collaborative engineering at #linaro you started with a discussion about membership costs and engineering commitment. The new #corecollective removes the financial barrier to entry so more people can be involved in working out what is needed before working out how to fund that work: https://www.linaro.org/news/linaro-addresses-the-demands-of-the-next-era-of-ai-and-compute-with-new-model-and-brings-open-collaboration-to-all/
Linaro Addresses the Demands of the Next Era of AI and Compute with New Model and Brings Open Collaboration to All | Newsroom | Linaro

Linaro introduces the CoreCollective - a neutral, open consortium backed by Arm that brings the ecosystem together to solve shared software challenges