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Favorite The current draft is up for review and comment. Please spread the word with your peers as we are entering the last 2 months of drafting: this is the time to raise concerns and shape the final text of the Open Source AI Definition. Where to find the description
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Shared by voicesofopensource March 25, 2024
Favorite The polls just closed, the results are in. Congratulations to the returning directors Thierry Carrez and Josh Berkus, and the newly elected director Chris Aniszczyk. Thierry Carrez has been confirmed and joins as a director elected by the Affiliate organizations. Chris Aniszczyk and Josh Berkus collected the votes of
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Favorite Comments on draft 0.0.6 from the forum Point raised by participant that training data has been listed both as optional and a precondition. This might cause confusion as it is unclear whether we should have the right to access training data or know what training data was used for
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Favorite As a community manager, I find FOSS Backstage to be one of my favorite conferences content-wise and community-wise. This is a conference that happens every year in Berlin, usually in early March. It’s a great opportunity to meet community leaders from Europe and across the world with the goal
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Favorite Once again Bosch’s campus in Berlin received ORT Community Days, the annual event organized by the OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) community. ORT is an Open Source suite of tools to automate software compliance checks. During this two day event, members from startups like Double Open and NexB, as well
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Favorite Big week, marked by the release of draft 0.0.6! The document is available for live comments and more general comments on the forum. Changes in the section “What is open source AI” added, “Precondition to exercise these freedoms is to have access to the preferred form to make modifications
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Favorite I was recently invited to join hosts Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo on The Changelog podcast. The Changelog features deep technical reviews and conversations about the most recent news in the world of software, and this was the first time anyone from the OSI has appeared on the show.
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Favorite A weekly summary of interesting threads on the forum. The results from the working groups are in The groups that analyzed OpenCV and Bloom have completed their work and the results of the votes have been published. We now have a full overview of the result of the four
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Favorite The recent US Executive Order on AI directs action for numerous federal agencies. This includes directing the National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA*) to discuss benefits, risks and policy choices associated with dual-use foundation models, which are powerful models that can be fine-tuned and used for multiple purposes, with
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Favorite There is a debate within the AI community around the risks of widely releasing foundation models with their weights and the societal impact of that decision. Some are arguing that the wide availability of Llama2 or Stable Diffusion XL are a net negative for society. A position paper released
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