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Raising funds for a good cause while learning about Open Source trends
The second annual collaborative surve and report on the state of Open Source software, with OpenLogic and OSI.
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Atlantic.Net: Why we sponsor OSI
This month, we’re pleased to spotlight one of our sponsors, Atlantic.Net, and learn why Open Source is important to their organization.
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First Insights: Deep Dive AI Podcast
A little over five weeks ago, we started exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts Open Source software, from developers to businesses to the rest of us. AI systems are so complex that concepts like “program” or “source code” in the Open Source Definition are challenged in new and surprising ways. The Deep Dive event consists…
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Episode 5: Why Debian won’t distribute AI models any time soon
In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative, and Mo Zhou, AI research expert and Debian developer, examine the key components of artificial intelligence systems and how those components by their very nature complicate the idea of AI software that is truly open source.
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Episode 5: transcript
“MZ: In order to train your networks in reasonable time schedule, we need something like GPU and the GPU requires no free driver, no free firmware, so it will be a problem if Debian community wants to reproduce neural networks in our own infrastructure. If we cannot do that, then any deep learning applications integrated…
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Rising to answer the call: sound public policy for Open Source questions
I’m pleased to share the news that I’ve accepted the role of US Policy Director for the Open Source Initiative (OSI), effective immediately. Under the leadership of OSI’s executive director Stefano Maffulli I’ve joined and will complement its policy and standards efforts led in Europe by long-time OSI leader Simon Phipps. In hearing OSI’s early…
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OSI Executive Director to speak at Open Source Summit Europe
We are slowly, but surely starting to return to in person events. Our next stop is Dublin for Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit Europe, from September 13th to the 16th. Thrilled to meet Open Source developers, technologists, and community leaders alike. Come visit our booth B12. The OSI’s own Executive Director will be giving not one,…
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Did the US Treasury censor code or illegal actions?
The Tornado Cash case: Did the US Treasury censor code or illegal actions?
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Episode 4: Building creative restrictions to curb AI abuse
In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative, and David Gray Widder, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, discuss David’s research and findings on ethics in artificial intelligence and, in particular, the challenges software engineers face related to trust and ethics in AI.
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Episode 4: transcript
“DGW: Some people just want to download the software and make porn with it. And if they don’t know how to program, and there is that restriction, that stops them. That’s a meaningful impediment. It’s a speed bump. It doesn’t stop you going down the road, but it makes it harder, it makes it slower,…
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@osi bit of a surprise to see myself in the photo on the maintainer page 😂