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We are headed to All Things Open 2022
You can find the OSI in Downtown Raleigh, North Carolina October 31st through November 2nd for the All Things Open (ATO) 2022 conference. ATO is celebrating 10 years this year. This educational conference is a great place to be introduced to new technologies and topics. It’s a valuable conference for the Open Source community and we…
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On the emerging landscape of open AI
In recent months, principles that underpin Open Source programming and other efforts to build information commons are being applied to AI research and development. It’s a turning point.
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Fireside chat with Mike Linksvayer
Mike Linksvayer, head of developer policy at GitHub in a conversation with Open Source Initiative’s executive director Stefano Maffulli talking about AI.
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OSI’s Deep Dive is an essential discussion on the future of AI and open source
GitHub is sponsoring Open Source Initiative’s Deep Dive: AI because we think it’s important for the community to unpack how open source software, process, and principles can help best deliver on the promise of AI.
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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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