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  • OSI Joins Internet-wide Day of Action to Protect Net Neutrality

    On July 12, 2017, websites, Internet users, online communities an the Open Source Initiative will come together to sound the alarm about the FCC’s attack on net neutrality. Learn how you can join the protest and spread the word at https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12. Right now, new FCC Chairman and former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai has a plan…

  • Proprietary Election Systems: Summarily Disqualified

    The following was provided by Brent Turner, California Association of Voting Officials (CAVO) Secretary. CAVO, an OSI Affiliate Member. Hello Open Source Software Community & U.S. Voters, I and the California Association of Voting Officials, represent a group of renowned computer scientists that have pioneered open source election systems, including, “one4all,” New Hampshire’s Open Source…

  • React to React

    The OSI has received several inquiries concerning its opinion on the licensing of React [1], which is essentially the 3-clause BSD license along with, in a separate file, an ‘Additional Grant of Patent Rights’ [2]. The Additional Grant of Patent Rights is a patent license grant that includes certain termination criteria. These termination criteria are…

  • Volunteering at the 2017 SFBay ACT-W conference

    Special guest article by Sean Roberts (@sarob). The OSI would like to thank Sean, Erich and Zack for all their help in promoting and staffing the OSI booth during the Bay Area ACT-W, and their support of open source software and women in technology. The OSI frequently reaches out to our membership and local open…

  • Software Freedom Advocates Invited to the Open Source Initiative’s Community Social

    OSI hosting a community social for the open source software community: join us for drinks, dinning and discussions. Meadhall, Cambridge, MA April 04, 2017 — If you’re in the greater Boston, Massachusetts area on Tuesday, April 4th, the OSI Board of Directors invites you to join us and the free and open source software community…

  • Open Source for Science + Innovation

    A symposium on Open Source Software, Open Science, Open Source Hardware, and their role in innovation FREE EVENT! REGISTER HERE! Who is this symposium for? This symposium is for anybody with an interest in open source software, open science, open hardware, and innovation. What is this symposium about? We are bringing together open source and…

  • OSI Welcomes the Journal of Open Source Software as Affiliate Member

    Open Source Initiative Extends Support for Computational Science and Engineering Research and Researchers. PALO ALTO, Calif. – March 28, 2017 — The Open Source Initiative® (OSI), a global non-profit organization formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source software and communities, announced that the Journal Of Open Source Software (JOSS), a…

  • San Francisco Open Source Voting System Project Continues On

    This update on San Francisco’s project to develop and certify the country’s first open source voting system was submitted by OSI Individual Member Chris Jerdonek. While Chris is a member (and President) of the San Francisco Elections Commission, he is providing this update as an individual and not in his official capacity as a Commissioner.…

  • CAVO Continues to Advance Open Source for Democracy

    OSI Affiliate Member, the California Association of Voting Officials (CAVO), has shared some exciting news regarding their advocacy work in San Francisco: according to the San Francisco Examiner, the city of San Francisco is pushing forward with plans to develop their open source election system. In addition, the paper is reporting that the San Francisco…

  • 2018 Membership Drive…

    2018 Membership Drive…

    February, 3rd, 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the OSI:Please join today The OSI will launch our fourth annual Individual Membership Drive, coinciding with our 20th anniversary, Feb 3rd, 2018 and running through March 16th, 2018. Our membership drive goal is to sign up 2,398 members in celebration of our founding on 2/3/98 — “2,398…

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