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Celebrating 5 years at the Open Source Initiative: a journey of growth, challenges, and community engagement
Reaching the five-year mark at the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been a huge privilege. It’s been a whirlwind of progress, personal growth, and community engagement—filled with highs, great challenges, and plenty of Open Source celebrations. As I reflect on this milestone, it’s impossible not to feel both gratitude and excitement for what lies ahead.…
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Highlights from the Digital Public Goods Alliance Annual Members Meeting 2024
The Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) Annual Members Meeting was an inspiring gathering of innovators, developers and advocates working to create a thriving ecosystem for Digital Public Goods (DPGs).
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Give Your Input on the State of Open Source Survey
The OSI has partnered again with OpenLogic by Perforce to produce a comprehensive report on global, industry-wide Open Source software adoption trends. The 2025 State of Open Source Report will be based on responses to a survey of those working with Open Source software in their organizations, from developers to CTOs and everyone in between.
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Open Data and Open Source AI: Charting a course to get more of both
The Open Source Initiative organized a workshop to discuss data sharing and governance for AI training. This is a teaser of a whitepaper coming in a few weeks.
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The Open Source Initiative and the Eclipse Foundation to Collaborate on Shaping Open Source AI (OSAI) Public Policy
The Eclipse Foundation and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on promoting the interest of the open source community in the implementation of regulatory initiatives on Open Source Artificial Intelligence (OSAI).
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ClearlyDefined v2.0 adds support for LicenseRefs
We are excited to announce the release of ClearlyDefined v2.0 which adds over 2,000 new well-known licenses it can identify. You can see the complete list of new non-SPDX licenses in ScanCode LicenseDB.
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Members Newsletter – November 2024
After more than two years of collaboration, information gathering, global workshopping, testing, and an in-depth co-design process, we have an Open Source AI Definition. The purpose of version 1.0 is to establish a workable standard for developers, researchers, and educators to consider how they may design evaluations for AI systems’ openness. The meaningful ability to fork…
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ClearlyDefined at SOSS Fusion 2024: a collaborative solution to Open Source license compliance
The Open Source Initiative in collaboration with GitHub and SAP presented ClearlyDefined at SOSS Fusion.
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The Open Source Initiative Announces the Release of the Industry’s First Open Source AI Definition
Open and public co-design process culminates in a stable version of Open Source AI Definition, ensures freedoms to use, study, share and modify AI systems.
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ClearlyDefined’s Steering and Outreach Committees Defined
We are excited to announce the newly elected leaders for the ClearlyDefined Steering and Outreach Committees!
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@osi congrats @duane