Open Education and the Shared Roots of Openness

Favorite Members Newsletter – March 2026 Dear OSI supporters, Every March, Open Education Week invites us to reflect on something that will feel familiar to everyone in this community: the idea that knowledge is most powerful when it is freely accessible, adaptable, and shared. It is a principle that open

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 11, 2026

OSI Adopts SPDX IDs for License URLs

Favorite For more than 25 years, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) website has been a central reference point for Open Source licenses. Over that time, our site has evolved through multiple redesigns, content management systems, and infrastructure migrations. As a result, license pages accumulated a variety of URL formats, including

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 10, 2026

Help Shape the Research Agenda for Open Technology

Favorite Open technologies such as Open Source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware play an increasingly important role in digital infrastructure, public sector innovation, and democratic governance around the world. Yet the research that informs policy and investment in these technologies is often fragmented and uneven. To address

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 9, 2026

From Brussels to the World: Open Source as a Global Asset

Favorite Members Newsletter – February 2026 Dear OSI supporters, In late January, members of OSI staff and board members  joined developers, policymakers, foundations, and civil society leaders in Brussels for FOSDEM 2026 and the series of policy and community events that surround it in what is now known as EU

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Shared by voicesofopensource February 11, 2026

OSI Joins OpenForum Europe and the Open Knowledge Foundation to Officially Launch Open Technology Research Initiative

Favorite Together from Brussels, Open Source Initiative (OSI), OpenForum Europe (OFE), and the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) announced the official launch of Open Technology Research (OTR). The launch comes with the unveiling of a new website that details the activities of the initiative and how the community can expect to

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Shared by voicesofopensource January 30, 2026