Now Hiring: Community Manager for ClearlyDefined Project
We’re hiring! The Open Source Initiative is looking for a Community Manager to help grow the contributions to ClearlyDefined and expand its reach. Consumers of Open Source often struggle to…
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Tackling sticky questions about cryptocurrency and Open Source from a legal perspective
In the days following the Free Software Foundation Europe Legal Network Conference in Stockholm, an email discussion ensued that brought up challenging questions around cryptocurrency and blockchain distributed ledger technology…
Helping Open Source projects thrive by putting essential licensing data at teams’ fingertips
ClearlyDefined is a central hub for all things Open Source software licenses.
What does AI have in common with Open Source?
OSI Executive Director, Stefano Maffulli, sat down with Richard Littauer and Justin Dorfman hosts of the podcast series Sustain and had an interesting conversation about our upcoming Deep Dive: AI event and what AI has in common with Open Source.
The year of change for the Open Source Initiative
The year 2021 marked the beginning of new ways to allow the organization to achieve its mission. New structure, new staff, new ways of being the stewards of the Open…
Higher Ed needs to step up to stay relevant as Open Source floods the IT world
By Patrick Masson, General Manager, Apereo Foundation This post is in support of the Open Apereo Conference, on June 14 and 15. Grant money is pouring in to support institutions of higher…
Memray project showcases why Bloomberg is an ‘open source first’ company
What might not be as well-known are Bloomberg’s contributions to open source software, both as a driver for its own technology and application infrastructure, as well as developing enterprise-scale tools for the broader open source community.
Join upcoming hackathon “Get plugged into education!” with Moodle
‘Get plugged into education!’ with Moodle will be the first project in a series of hackathons part of a joint initiative launched by The United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) and the Directorate-General for Informatics of European Commission (DG DIGIT).
Publicplan: Why we support the OSI
Since its founding, publicplan has been committed to the concept of open source software. For us, there is no greater good than free information.
GNOME patent troll stripped of patent rights
A recent decision at the US patent office may well give patent trolls cause to steer clear of open source projects – even more than the fierce resistance the community impressively funded and mounted in the GNOME case.
A win for open is a win for all: Interview with The Open Organization
We spoke with Bryan Behrenshausen, Community Architect for the Open Organization in the Open Source Program Office at Red Hat, about this inspiring project and get his perspective on all things open source.
Join us at PyCon 2022
We are very excited to be attending our first in-person event in over 2 years! PyCon has always been one of our favorites and we are looking forward to returning