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Crowdsourcing FOSS Project Success: Clearly defined project data, a smooth path to widespread adoption.

Submitted by administrator on Tue, 2018-03-06 10:09

PALO ALTO, Calif. - March 6, 2018 -- Today the Open Source Initiative® (OSI) announced its Incubator Project, ClearlyDefined, a crowdsourced project aimed at boosting the success of FOSS projects by clearly defining their status. Absences or ambiguities around licensing or known security vulnerabilities can erode confidence and limit project success. Project teams often are not aware of these concerns or do not know how to address them.

OSI Celebration at Campus Party Brazil

Submitted by nvidal on Mon, 2018-03-05 11:37

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) celebrated its 20th Anniversary at Campus Party Brazil 2018 during the first week of February. Campus Party Brazil is among the largest and most diverse tech events in the world. The eleventh edition of the event received a total of 120,000 attendees, of which 8000 were "campers" (participants who actually camp in tents inside this week long event). Approximately 40% of attendees were women, which is a very high mark for a tech event.

SalesAgility, the driving force behind SuiteCRM, joins Open Source Initiative as Corporate Sponsor.

Submitted by administrator on Sun, 2018-02-25 17:33

Commitment to openness, freedom and collaboration in open source demands a different corporate mindset, a different set of values and a different set of behaviors.

OSI Joins UNESCO to Grow Open Source Community

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 2018-02-14 05:36

Participate in the #OpenTechNights Program today and Win a Free Stay during the FOSSASIA Summit 2018 from the Open Source Initiative and UNESCO

Why I want you to run for the OSI Board

Submitted by Molly de Blanc on Thu, 2018-02-08 17:28

The Open Source Initiative board is homogeneous, stratified across generations.

We fit across three (tech) generations of contributors to free and open source software–those who were involved in the early days of free software; those who found places in the community after open source had been established; and the group paultag humorously dubbed the GNU generation–none of us have lived in a world without the explicit concept of user freedom.

Happy Anniversary—The Next 20 Years of Open Source Begins

Submitted by webmink on Sat, 2018-02-03 05:53

Open Source Software—yes, we did coin the term (thanks Christine Peterson) and started the movement—is software that can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone.

"Anyone and Everyone," Leslie Hawthorn Reflects on 20 Years of Open Source.

Submitted by administrator on Thu, 2018-01-25 06:29

I believe there are two big challenge currently facing open source communities: cultivating empathy and sustaining maintainers.

Open Source Initiative Announces New Partnership With Adblock Plus

Submitted by administrator on Tue, 2018-01-16 09:03

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Jan. 16, 2018 -- Adblock Plus, the most popular Internet ad blocker today, joins The Open Source Initiative® (OSI) as corporate sponsors. Since its very first version, Adblock Plus has been an open source project that has developed into a successful business with over 100 million users worldwide. As such, the German company behind it, eyeo GmbH, has decided it is time to give back to the open source community.

Twenty Years and Counting

Submitted by administrator on Fri, 2017-12-22 06:14

The third decade of open source software starts in February 2018. How did it rise to dominance, and what’s next?

20 years ago, in February 1998, the term “open source” was first applied to software, Soon afterwards, the Open Source Definition was created and the seeds that became the Open Source Initiative (OSI) were sown. As the OSD’s author Bruce Perens relates,

Open Yet Closed

Submitted by administrator on Tue, 2017-11-14 08:12

In these days of code that no single mind can grasp, it's hard to see how software freedom is present when there's no realistic community access to source code.

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Open Source Software—yes, we did coin the term (thanks Christine Peterson) and started the movement—is software that can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone.

I believe there are two big challenge currently facing open source communities: cultivating empathy and sustaining maintainers.

The third decade of open source software starts in February 2018. How did it rise to dominance, and what’s next?

In these days of code that no single mind can grasp, it's hard to see how software freedom is present when there's no realistic community access to source code.

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