(Image credit: Intel) Intel has quietly wound down its Open Ecosystem Community and Evangelism initiative, archiving the project alongside a fresh wave of open-source repositories on GitHub. This, unfortunately, seems to mark another step back from the company's long-standing role as a major open-source advocate. Go deeper with TH Premium: CPU Its disappearance appears to coincide with a thinning of Intel's open-source leadership. Notably, one of the last prominent evangelists associated with the program, Katherine Druckman, apparently departed the company in mid-2025, leaving a visible gap in the kind of developer-facing advocacy Intel had historically invested in. Article continues below Alongside the program's closure, Intel has archived projects spanning AI, infrastructure, and developer tooling.…