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What Is Open Governance? Drafting a charter for an Open Source project
Building a healthy Open Source community is much more than just choosing an Open Source license for the project. It involves creating a contributing guide, adopting a code of conduct, and establishing an open governance structure that allows all members to actively participate in and contribute to the project. This article provides a hands on…
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The importance of Open Source AI and the challenges of liberating data
A post is taken from a speech given remotely at LLW 2023 by OSI Executive director Stefano Maffulli.
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Things I learned at Brussels to the Bay: AI governance in the world
Powerful Artificial Intelligence technology is pressing more questions on Open Source and society every day. AI is contributing to important breakthroughs and we’re only beginning to see the potential for innovation it can bring to fields such as climate, health, agriculture and mobility (to name just a few).
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Open Source ensures code remains a part of culture
Software is a cultural artifact, a proxy for the law in the lives of every citizen, a tool for control and for freedom depending on the hand that wields it. It is imperative that all software is open for scrutiny and preserved for posterity.
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Why advocacy and outreach matter
At OSI we’ve stepped up our advocacy and outreach program to educate the wider community. We just wrapped up the first License Clinic for lawyers and employees of US federal agencies and we’ve started planning for the next one, in Brusse
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Salesforce: Why we sponsor OSI
This month, we’re pleased to spotlight one of our sponsors, Salesforce, and learn why Open Source is important to their organization.
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Containers can be safer with Open Source
The Open Source project SlimToolkit addresses one of the most critical issues in the cloud-native ecosystem today: container security.
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Diving in to Open Source supply chain; connecting and collaborating with communities
After one month at OSI, I’ve started forming a full picture of supply chain compliance and security ecosystem.
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Open Source Approved License® registry project underway with help of intern, Giulia Dellanoce
I shared last month the details of the new OSI website, hosted on WordPress. One of the main drivers for this upgrade was to unify OSI-approved licenses with all related metadata to a consistent, reliable and easy-to-access format. From there we can incorporate the outcome of the recommendations coming out of the License Review Working Group.…
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Why the European Commission must consult the Open Source communities
A crucial problem with the Impact Assessment of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is that no Open Source communities or community fiduciaries were consulted as stakeholders. The lack of consultation with the Open Source communities would explain the possible origin of a serious defect in terminology. The Impact Assessment Annex 2 (Pdf), sections 2-4 lists…
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@osi bit of a surprise to see myself in the photo on the maintainer page 😂