OSI Welcomes Debian and CENATIC
OSI is very pleased to welcome two important new members to the Affiliate scheme for community groups. They are CENATIC and Debian. CENATIC is the Spanish National Reference Center for…
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OSI’s new Board
Last Friday the OSI Board held a special meeting to fill vacancies that had arisen by the departure of three directors – Mike Godwin, Andrew Oliver and Michael Tiemann. Michael Tiemann left the Board after serving as OSI President for many years and leaves a large gap which the board will only fill thoughtfully; as a consequence, Martin Michlmayr, currently OSI Secretary, was temporarily appointed Acting President and the election of a full new President scheduled for a later meeting of the new Board. The Board warmly thanks all three for the contribution they have made to OSI.
Open Source CADNANO is unbelievably cool
I just read this in Nature: The researchers designed the structure of the nanorobots using open-source software, called Cadnano, developed by one of the authors — Shawn Douglas, a biophysicist…
OSI Announces New Initiatives
OSI is changing, and you can help! I spoke at FOSDEM in Brussels on Saturday, on behalf of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) where I serve as a director. My…
Help OSI – Complete Our Survey!
UPDATE: Please note this survey was completed in March 2012 and the data was used to design OSI Individual Membership The Open Source Initiative is switching to a member-led governance….
Live Free or Die in New Hampshire
New Hampshire has passed a new law that is summarized as follows: This bill requires state agencies to consider open source software when acquiring software and promotes the use of…
OSI Reform At FOSDEM
In preparation for my keynote at FOSDEM, I was interviewed by the team who have just posted the interview. In particular, I noted this background to the governance reform, which…
FLOSS Body of Knowledge
As courses, certificates, and curricula are created, it’s valuable to bring together people who are working to develop and deliver this material into a community where we can jointly define…
OSI Opposes SOPA and PIPA
The Open Source Initiative Board joined many other civil society organizations as co-signatories of an open letter expressing concern about SOPA and PIPA. As human rights and press freedom advocates,…
Mozilla Releases OSI-Approved MPLv2
Last week saw a quiet landmark in the history of the open source movement with the formal release of version two of the Mozilla Public License (MPLv2) and its approval…
Open Source receives official support in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
On November 11, 2011, the government of the State of Rio de Janeiro – the second largest state in Brazil in terms of population and GDP – published a new…
OSI and the CPTN Transaction
This page preserves the news flow from the OSI home page at the start of 2011 concerning the purchase of Novell’s patent portfolio by the CPTN Consortium. OSI Responds to…