Members Newsletter – October 2024

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We’re pleased to announce that Release Candidate 1 of the Open Source AI Definition has been confirmed and published! If you’d like to add your name to the list of endorsers published online, please let us know. 

We traveled four continents presenting to diverse audiences and soliciting feedback on the draft definition: Deep Learning Indaba in Dakar, Senegal; IndiaFOSS in Bangalore, India; Open Source Summit EU in Vienna, Austria; and Nerdearla in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The work continues this month as we continue to seek input at the Data in OSAI in Paris, France; at OCX in Mainz, Germany; and during our weekly town hall meetings. And, finally, we’ll be in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the end of the month for All Things Open, where we plan to present the Open Source AI Definition version 1.0!

My thanks to everyone who is contributing to this community-led process. Please continue to let your voice be heard.

Stefano Maffulli

Executive Director, OSI 

I hold weekly office hours on Fridays with OSI members: book time if you want to chat about OSI’s activities, if you want to volunteer or have suggestions.

News from the OSI

The Open Source AI Definition RC1 is available for comments

The Open Source AI Definition first Release Candidate has been published and collaboration continues.

Other highlights:

• Co-designing the OSAID: a highlight from Nerdearla
• A Journey toward defining Open Source AI: presentation at Open Source Summit Europe
• Copyright law makes a case for requiring data information rather than open datasets for Open Source AI
• Data Transparency in Open Source AI: Protecting Sensitive Datasets
• Is “Open Source” ever hyphenated?
• Jordan Maris joins OSI

OSI in the news

Defining Open Source AI Will Solve a Million Headaches

Article from Mark Surman at The New Stack

Other highlights:

• Elastic founder on returning to open source four years after going proprietary (TechCrunch)
• Europe’s Tech Future Hinges on Open Source AI (The New Stack)
• How big new AI regulatory pushes could affect open source (Tech Brew)
• Does Open Source Software Still Matter? (Datanami)
• AI2’s new model aims to be open and powerful yet cost effective (VentureBeat)
• Is that LLM Actually “Open Source”? We need to talk Open-Washing in AI Governance (HackerNoon)
• AI Models From Google, Meta, Others May Not Be Truly ‘Open Source’ (PCMag)
• What’s Behind Elastic’s Unexpected Return to Open Source? (The New Stack)

Join Open Policy Alliance

The Open Policy Alliance reaches 100 members on LinkedIn.

Other news

News from OSI affiliates:

• The Eclipse Foundation Launches the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group to Help Open Source Participants Navigate Global Regulations
• LPI and OSI Unite to Professionalize the Global Linux and Open Source Ecosystem
• Apache Software Foundation Initiatives to Fuel the Next 25 Years of Open Source Innovation 
• Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls
• Open Source Foundations Considered Helpful
• Solving the Maker-Taker problem

News from OpenSource.net:

• OpenSource.Net turns one with a redesign
• Beyond the binary: The nuances of Open Source innovation
• Steady in a shifting Open Source world: FreeBSD’s enduring stability

Surveys

Tidelift’s 2024 State of the Open Source Maintainer Report

More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work.

The State of Open Source Survey

In collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation and Open Source Initiative (OSI).

Jobs

OSI US Policy Manager

Lead OSI’s public policy agenda and education.

Bloomberg OSPO is Hiring

Bloomberg is seeking a Technical Architect to join their OSPO team.

Events

Upcoming events:

• Hacktoberfest (October – Online)
• SOSS Fusion (October 22-23, 2024 – Atlanta)
• Open Community Experience (October 22-24, 2024 – Mainz)
• All Things Open (October 27-29 – Raleigh)
• Nerdearla Mexico (November 7-9, 2024 – Mexico City)
• SeaGL (November 8-9, 2024 – Seattle)
• OpenForum Academy Symposium (November, 13-14, 2024 – Boston)

CFPs:

• FOSDEM 2025 call for devrooms (February 1-2, 2024 – Brussels)
• Consul Conference (February, 4-6, 2025 – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
• SCALE 22x (March 6-9, 2025 – Pasadena)

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors and renewals

• Mercado Libre
• FerretDB
• Word Unscrambler

Interested in sponsoring, or partnering with, the OSI? Please see our Sponsorship Prospectus and our Annual Report. We also have a dedicated prospectus for the Deep Dive: Defining Open Source AI. Please contact the OSI to find out more about how your company can promote open source development, communities and software.

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Let’s build a world where knowledge is freely shared, ideas are nurtured, and innovation knows no bounds! 

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