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Rome (Italy) – March 27, 2018 – Engineering Group, the global IT player and Italian leader in digital transformation, announced their continued sponsorship of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI is internationally recognized as the stewards of open source software, working to promote and protect open source projects, development and communities. For 20 years…

    The OSI’s 2018 elections ran from February 3, with the opening of nominations, through March 16, when the voting was closed at 12:00 midnight PDT. This year’s Board of Directors election sought to fill two Affiliate Member seats, and two Individual Member seats. Voting in OSI elections is open to all OSI Individual…

PALO ALTO, Calif. – March 6, 2018 — Today the Open Source Initiative® (OSI) announced its Incubator Project, ClearlyDefined, a crowdsourced project aimed at boosting the success of FOSS projects by clearly defining their status. Absences or ambiguities around licensing or known security vulnerabilities can erode confidence and limit project success. Project teams often are…

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) celebrated its 20th Anniversary at [Campus Party Brazil 2018](http://brasil.campus-party.org/) during the first week of February. Campus Party Brazil is among the largest and most diverse tech events in the world. The eleventh edition of the event received a total of 120,000 attendees, of which 8000 were “campers” (participants who actually…

Commitment to openness, freedom and collaboration in open source demands a different corporate mindset, a different set of values and a different set of behaviors. PALO ALTO, Calif. – Feb. 26, 2018 – The Open Source Initiative® (OSI), the global non-profit dedicated to promoting and protecting open source software, announced today the Premium Sponsorship of…

Participate in the #OpenTechNights Program today and Win a Free Stay during the FOSSASIA Summit 2018 from the Open Source Initiative and UNESCO

  Open Source Software—yes, we did coin the term (thanks Christine Peterson) and started the movement—is software that can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone.   Thirty-five years ago when Richard Stallman decided that he could no longer tolerate proprietary software, and started the free software movement, software…

I believe there are two big challenge currently facing open source communities: cultivating empathy and sustaining maintainers. The Open Source Software Movement and the Open Source Initiative will celebrate our 20th anniversary in 2018. As part of that celebration, we’re asking open source luminaries to reflect on the past twenty years—the milestones, success, controversies, and…