Favorite We are excited to announce the newly elected leaders for the ClearlyDefined Steering and Outreach Committees! What is ClearlyDefined? ClearlyDefined is an Open Source project dedicated to improving the clarity and transparency of Open Source licensing and security data. By harvesting, curating, and sharing essential metadata, ClearlyDefined helps developers

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Shared by voicesofopensource October 16, 2024

Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is running a blog series to introduce some of the people who have been actively involved in the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) co-design process. The co-design methodology allows for the integration of diverging perspectives into one just, cohesive and feasible standard. Support and

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Shared by voicesofopensource October 10, 2024

Favorite Some people believe that full unfettered access to all training data is paramount. This group argues that anything less than all the data would compromise the Open Source principles, forever removing full reproducibility of AI systems, transparency, security and other outcomes. We’ve heard them and we’ve provided a solution

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Shared by voicesofopensource October 9, 2024

Favorite As businesses rely more heavily on Open Source software (OSS), the strain on maintainers to provide timely updates and security patches continues to grow – often without fair compensation for their crucial work. Recent high-profile security incidents like XZ and Log4Shell have put a spotlight on the security challenges

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Shared by voicesofopensource October 8, 2024

Favorite 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

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Shared by voicesofopensource October 3, 2024

Favorite At the 10th anniversary of Nerdearla, one of the largest Open Source conferences in Latin America, Mer Joyce, Co-Design Facilitator of the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID), delivered a key presentation titled “Defining Open Source AI”. Held in Buenos Aires from September 24-28, 2024, this major event brought together

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Shared by voicesofopensource October 3, 2024

Favorite A little over a month after v.0.0.9, we have a Release Candidate version of the Open Source AI Definition. This was reached with lots of community feedback: 5 town hall meetings, several comments on the forum and on the draft, and in person conversations at events in Austria, China,

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Shared by voicesofopensource October 2, 2024

Favorite A few weeks ago I attended Open Source Summit Europe 2024, an event organized by the Linux Foundation, that brought together brilliant developers, technologists and leaders from all over the world, reinforcing what Open Source is truly about—collaboration, innovation and community. I had the honor of leading a session

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Shared by voicesofopensource October 1, 2024

Favorite No! Open Source is never hyphenated when referring to software. If you’re familiar with English grammar you may have more than an eyebrow raised: read on, we have an explanation. Actually, we have two.  We asked Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss, a linguist and KDE’s project manager, to provide us

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Shared by voicesofopensource September 26, 2024

Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is running a blog series to introduce some of the people who have been actively involved in the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) co-design process. The co-design methodology allows for the integration of diverging perspectives into one just, cohesive and feasible standard. Support and

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Shared by voicesofopensource September 24, 2024