Members Newsletter – April 2024
The OSI wants to breathe life into the stories, case studies and research around maintaining a healthy business while producing Open Source software, so we’ve created a way to spread…
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Compelling responses to NTIA’s AI Open Model Weights RFC
The OSI has compiled a compelling list of responses from nonprofit organizations and companies to NTIA’s AI Open Model Weights RFC.
Members Newsletter – March 2024
The evolution of the Open Source AI Definition continues, and draft v.0.0.6 is now live and open for public comments. This draft contains one major change in the section “What…
ClearlyDefined at the ORT Community Days
Once again Bosch’s campus in Berlin received ORT Community Days, the annual event organized by the OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) community. ORT is an Open Source suite of tools to automate software compliance checks.
Three perspectives from FOSS Backstage
FOSS Backstage is a conference that fosters discussions around three complementary perspectives: a) community health and growth, b) project governance and sustainability, and c) supply chain compliance and security.
Members Newsletter – February 2024
I was at FOSDEM last week, and there were a few key takeaways from my perspective: This is why the involvement of the broader Open Source community is so important…
Members Newsletter – January 2024
It’s a new year and that means it’s time to elect a new Board of Directors at the OSI! The elections timeline was announced on January 16. Nominations will be…
A public forum to discuss the Open Source AI Definition
Introducing the first OSI members forum, as part of OSI’s commitment to transparency and collaboration.
ClearlyDefined: recapping a year of progress and sharing a vision for 2024
At the beginning of 2023, I started as a community manager for ClearlyDefined, with the goals of creating an open governance model for the project and helping the OSI to…
2023 in review: many reasons to celebrate
Wrapping up a busy one for the Open Source Initiative as we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Open Source while looking towards present and future challenges and opportunities.
The most popular licenses for each language in 2023
The 2023 report of the licenses in use by the biggest package managers highlights the need to educate developers on the importance of licensing information. While many developers know that…
Nerdearla reflects on openness and inclusivity
Reflections on Nerdearla 2023 in Buenos Aires, organized by sysarmy, including the presentation of “25 Years of Open Source.”