Favorite A crucial problem with the Impact Assessment of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is that no Open Source communities or community fiduciaries were consulted as stakeholders. The lack of consultation with the Open Source communities would explain the possible origin of a serious defect in terminology. The Impact Assessment

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 29, 2023

Favorite I joined Javier Perez on a webinar reviewing the results of the 2023 State of Open Source survey, a collaborative effort between OpenLogic by Perforce and the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Open Source users from all eight global regions, working in 20+ industries in organizations of all sizes were anonymously

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 28, 2023

Favorite The polls just closed, the results are in. Congratulations to the returning directors Aeva Black, and Catharina Maracke, and the newly elected director Anne-Marie Scott. Anne-Marie Scott has been confirmed and joins as a director elected by the Affiliate organizations. She’ll take the seat that was occupied by Hong-Phuc

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 21, 2023

Favorite OSI is pleased to announce our 2023 Open Source Initiative License Clinic, an in-person event to be held April 4th in Washington D.C. This one day workshop will cover advanced topics on open source software licenses of interest to the US federal government as well as emerging issues such

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 16, 2023

Favorite It’s that time of year when the board confirms and renews its members. If you’re a full member of OSI you’ll receive a ballot at the end of this week.  Members of the OSI have an incredible opportunity to oversee and steer the organization, supporting me and the staff

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 15, 2023

Favorite This Monday, I was in Brussels to attend a stakeholder workshop for the Digital Market Act (DMA) organized by the European Commission. For those who aren’t familiar with the DMA, it’s a new law that the European Parliament voted on recently and one of its goals is to force

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 9, 2023

Favorite The nominations for the Open Source Initiative board of elections just closed, March 6th. It’s time for voters to meet the candidates. The OSI board of directors will renew three of its seats with an open election process among its full individual members and affiliates. We will be holding

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 7, 2023

Favorite With the European Commission soon to offer the Parliament a bill relating to Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs), it is worth taking time to understand exactly why vendors requiring negotiations to use the patents they have embedded in “open” standards is antithetical to Open Source practice. The value and prosperity generated from Open Source arises from

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 2, 2023

Favorite ClearlyDefined has a new community manager! Nick Vidal has joined the project hosted by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) that helps Open Source projects thrive by putting essential licensing data at teams’ fingertips. Vidal comes with 20 years of experience developing Open Source communities and will lead ClearlyDefined to

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Shared by voicesofopensource February 28, 2023

Favorite In the next few weeks, the OSI board of directors will renew three of its seats with an open election process among its full individual members and affiliates. There will be two elections in March, running in parallel: The affiliate organizations will elect one director Individual members will elect two directors 2023

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Shared by voicesofopensource February 21, 2023