Open Source AI Salons and What’s Next

Members Newsletter – November 2026

Dear OSI community,

The fall conference season in the US is especially busy. I’ve been fortunate enough to attend several events in the last month, but it was especially great to reconnect with the community at All Things Open. This was my first big Open Source conference as Executive Director as we hosted the State of the Source track. Many of our sessions were standing room only, and the feedback we heard was generous and useful. We’re grateful for that, and we’ll be posting recordings of the sessions soon.

The day after All Things Open, we hosted our first Open Source AI Salon. This was an important moment for us as we re-engage the community to discuss the Open Source AI Definition, look at everything we’ve collectively learned since version 1.0 was published two years ago, and chart the course for our next steps. We’ll be hosting many more of these events in the coming months. Watch this space for details.

November elections in the US produced a huge change in the legislative landscape. We expect a lot of activity in the policy landscape for Open Source and Open Source AI. Incoming legislators will propose new policies  that affect how Open Source AI gets built and shared, including open weight models. The OSI and our partners in the Open Policy Alliance will be ready to help lawmakers understand what openness makes possible, and what’s at stake if it’s restricted. We’ll share more as the picture comes into focus.

News from the OSI

Open Source AI Salons: Shaping the OSAID, Together

Two years after the release of the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID 1.0), the Open Source Initiative hosted the first in a series of Open Source AI Salons, gatherings to discuss the future of the OSAID.

FOSDEM 2027: CFP for Open Source & EU Policy Devroom

The OSI, in collaboration with APELL, Eclipse Foundation, Github, Linux Foundation Europe, Mozilla, NLNET Labs, Open Forum Europe, and OpenSSF, are delighted to invite you to submit a proposal for a talk, and join us for the 4th edition of the Open Source & EU Policy devroom at FOSDEM.

OSI in the news

• From Shared Principles to Practice: Reflections from the Open Source Congress, Halifax (DPGA)
• Openness in AI development: a path to long-term independence (Access Now)
• What Are Open-Weight AI Models? (CNET)

News from OSI affiliates and community

News from OSI affiliates and partners

• Apereo Foundation: Not Just Cheaper: Open Source as Industry Standard
• Creative Commons, Public Knowledge: Creating a New Internet Bargain to Preserve Fair Use and Protect the Commons
• DPGA: Launching the DPG4AI Collection: Supporting Equitable, Responsible AI Development for the Public Interest
• DPGA: Introducing the Open Source Policy Builder: A Practical Tool for Implementing and Scaling DPGs
• Eclipse Foundation: A New Chapter for the Eclipse Foundation and I
• EFF: The Vulnerability Apocalypse and Why We Should Fund Open Source
• FSFE: Public Procurement Act: Europe needs control over its digital infrastructure
• FSFE: Freedom in Android is fading, but we can still reverse the course
• Mozilla Foundation: Owners, Not Renters: Raffi Krikorian on Open Source AI
• OASIS Open: Trusting AI starts with trusting its data
• OpenJS: Sovereign Tech Agency Invests in OpenJS to Rethink When Vulnerabilities Should Be Fixed in the Open
• OpenSSF: New OpenSSF Guide: Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities Using AI
• OpenSSF: The PHP Security Wake-Up Call: Fixes Are Only the Beginning
• PHP: Today’s PHP Security Release, and How We’re Strengthening PHP Security
• PHP: PHP Foundation ‘under-funded’ with one full-time staff member, director says
• Software Heritage: CodeCommons annual review
• Sovereign Tech Agency: PHP2Shell exposes the funding gap in open-source security
• Sovereign Tech Agency: Preparing the web for post-quantum cryptography
• Swiss AI: Open-Source LLM Builders Summit – Blueprints for Global Collaboration
• The Document Foundation: The past, present and future of office suites
• Wikimedia Foundation: Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web
• WordPress Foundation: WordPress Credits Welcomes More Than 50 Institutions

News from community members

• 30 years of Internet transfers with curl (Daniel Stenberg)
• PhotoCraft: the legal questions an AI-assisted rewrite leaves open (Iveta Bozhkova-Yuskeselieva)
• How the European Union Fell Out of Love With Open-Source Software (Nora von Ingersleben-Seip)

News from sponsors

• We just gave a million dollars to Open Source maintainers (Sentry)
• How organizations can get more value from open source (Red Hat)
• Building AI the open source way: Research insights from Red Hat and the Linux Foundation (Red Hat)
• Cryptography Rarely Fails Because of the Math (Cisco)

Research and white papers

Open Source Software, Cybersecurity

• 2026 Report on the State of Cybersecurity in the Union (ENISA)
• ENISA Technical Advisory for Software Bill of Materials (ENISA)
• FOSS Security & Infrastructure Resilience (Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund)
• Tripartite Commons Governance (Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund)
• Strengthening Software Supply Chain Security with OpenChain and OpenSSF (OpenChain, OpenSSF)
• The State of Commercial Open Source 2026 (Linux Foundation)
• ‘Coding multilateralism’: implications of the United Nations’ governance of free and open-source software for international organisations in the digital age (Computer Law & Security Review)

Open Source AI

• The Cloud and AI Development Act Proposal (Open Future)
• Sharing the Value of AI training (Open Future)
• Navigating Open Source Software Development in the Generative AI Era (Linux Foundation)
• The 2026 Open Data Infrastructure Report (Linux Foundation)
• Current Model Cards Are Insufficient for Downstream Governance of Open-Weight Foundation Models (ICML 2026)
• Teaching Model Openness Grading: A Practitioner Taxonomy for Distinguishing Open-Weight, Open-Source, and Open-Washing in AI Release (NeurIPS)

Open Source Licensing

• LARK: License analysis with RAG and knowledge graphs (Information and Software Technology)
• Blurred Compliance Boundaries: Analyzing Open Source License Conflicts in MCP-Based Agent Workflows (ESEM 2026)
• Structuring license permissiveness from pairwise comparisons (Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop)

Surveys

• State of Open Source survey (OSI, Eclipse Foundation, Perforce)
• Which open source does Europe rely on? A survey for the EU Sovereign Tech Fund pilot
• Reviewing the Data Clause of the DPG Standard for AI Systems

Events

Upcoming events

• SFSCON (November 13-14, Bolzano)
• DPGA Annual Members Meeting (November 17-19, Paris)
• Open Source Summit Japan (December 7-9, Tokyo)
• Open Source Experience (December 9-10, Paris)

Check the top 50+ Open Source conferences of 2026 that the OSI is tracking, including events that intersect with AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and policy.

CFPs

• FOSSapalooza (January 29, Brussels)
• FOSDEM (January 30-31, Brussels)
  • Beyond the CRA
  • Legal & Policy
  • Open Source & EU Policy
• Open Community Experience (April 13-15, Brussels)

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