The IBM Linux Technology Centre

250+ Staff, 22 Cities, 7 countries
Australia, China, Germany, India, Japan, UK and USA
Employs a number of well known OSS/Linux developers

Mission statement is essentially "Make Linux Better"

Establishes technical relationships with OSS community by
Participating in existing projects
Initiating new OSS projects
Often includes working on "boring" things

Support and participation in Linux/Open Source organisations and initiatives 
LSB, L18NUX, FSF, LI, OSDL etc.
Kernel Summit, Ottawa Linux Symposium, linux.conf.au etc.

Testing "hard" things to assist OSS community

Serve as a technical resource to other IBM groups

Work contributed to community through the usual OSS process