CISA Announces New Efforts to Help Secure Open Source Ecosystem

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

“OSI and the Open Policy Alliance commend CISA for engaging with the open source software community and appreciate the opportunity to participate in this week’s Open Source Security Summit. Including less represented, small open source non-profits into the discussion will facilitate workable, practical policies and practices, building upon the strength of the collaborative model of Open Source,” said Deb Bryant, US Policy Director, Open Source Initiative.

Adapting the Definition of Open Source to AI: the Quest for the Holy Grail

TLF

In December 2023, the authors of this blog, David Edelsohn and Ofer Hermoni, had an enriching opportunity to attend a thought-provoking session at the AI.Dev event, titled “Towards the Definition of Open Source AI,” moderated by the insightful Mer Joyce and Ruth Suehle. The authors and other AI and open-source professionals joined together to create an initial proposal for the definition of Open Source AI.

The outlook for open source? Growing, but there are challenges

ComputerWeekly

The interest in data technologies goes hand in hand with the exponential growth happening right now in the artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) space, said Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative, which worked with OpenLogic by Perforce on the report.