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2023 in review: many reasons to celebrate

The year of 2023 was a busy one for the Open Source Initiative (OSI), as we celebrated the 25th Anniversary...

December 13, 2023 Post
OSI Board Meeting Minutes, Sunday, July 27, 2008

OSI Face to Face Meeting at OSCON 2008 Dates: July 26-27, 2008 Venue: Park Room, Westin Portland Day Two, July...

March 11, 2009 Meeting Minutes
The importance of Open Source AI and the challenges of liberating data

(This post is taken from a speech given remotely at LLW 2023 by OSI Executive director Stefano Maffulli) The conference...

May 4, 2023 Post
Open Source Business Conference Retrospective

Along with the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting, the Open Source Business Conference was one of the two...

March 27, 2009 Post
Gabriele Columbro

I graduated cum laude on a Master in Computer Engineering in Rome, with a thesis on the merits of moving...

March 6, 2023 Board Member
Building Public Data for LLMs

Part of the Deep Dive: Data Governance Webinar Series As the capabilities and influence of large language models (LLMs) continue to expand,...

October 7, 2025 Page
Mary Jo Foley on Microsoft’s Open Source Strategy

On January 31st 2008, Mary Jo Foley posted an insightful blog about Microsoft's Open Source Strategy. On the morning of...

February 2, 2008 Post
The Open Source Initiative and the Eclipse Foundation to Collaborate on Shaping Open Source AI (OSAI) Public Policy

BRUSSELS and WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif.  – 14 November 2024 – The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source...

November 14, 2024 Post
Our supporters

The following companies are generously supporting the OSI. Interested in sponsoring, or partnering with, the OSI? Please see our Sponsorship...

July 23, 2023 Page
OSI at OSCON 2016

This year, OSCON moves to Austin, Texas and we’ll be there! (Plus, we’re attending Community Leadership Summit the weekend before...

March 24, 2016 Post
History of the Open Source Initiative

Development based on the sharing and collaborative improvement of software source code has a history essentially as long as software...

September 19, 2006 Page
Why Open Source should be exempt from Standard-Essential Patents

With the European Commission soon to offer the Parliament a bill relating to Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs), it is worth taking time...

March 2, 2023 Post