Facebook has partnered with several big companies to kick off a new project called TODO, which aims to improve the quality of open-source software and make it easier to consume.

Facebook, Google and many other large organizations have come to rely heavily on open-source software to run their businesses, particularly their online operations.

But they feel there’s room to improve how open-source projects are managed and organized, and even to improve the software itself. The TODO project — which stands for Talk Openly, Develop Openly — will address those goals.

“We want to figure out how we can raise the bar on the quality of open-source software projects in the world,” Jay Parikh, the head of Facebook’s infrastructure group, said at a conference in San Francisco on Monday.

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