Favorite Be part of a global conversation on the future of openness at the OpenForum Academy (OFA) Symposium 2025, taking place November 18–19 at the FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Through expert panels, case studies, and collaborative discussions, the Symposium will consider the transformative potential of openness

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Shared by voicesofopensource April 16, 2025

Favorite Each year, the State of Open Source Report offers a valuable pulse check on the global Open Source ecosystem—and the 2025 edition is no exception. Produced by Perforce OpenLogic, in partnership with the Eclipse Foundation and the Open Source Initiative, this report uncovers the latest trends, tensions, and transformations

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Shared by voicesofopensource April 10, 2025

Favorite In conversations around Open Source AI, a familiar idea keeps surfacing: that “openness is a spectrum.” It sounds convenient, especially when trying to reconcile proprietary data or partially open models with the ideals of Open Source. But let’s be clear: this is a flawed premise—and one the Open Source

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Shared by voicesofopensource April 8, 2025

Favorite In 2024, the European Union approved the Artificial Intelligence Act, the world’s first legal framework for AI. Part of the law mandated the creation of a Code of Practice for General Purpose AI for AI developers. The OSI applied to take part in the drafting of these rules, but

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 27, 2025

Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors met to validate the results of the polls, confirmed Carlo Piana as director and welcomed Ruth Suehle, recommended by Affiliates, and McCoy Smith recommended by Individual supporters, as new directors. The OSI thanks all of those who participated in the 2025

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 21, 2025

Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) submitted public comments with the Apereo Foundation in response to the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy’s (OSTP) request for information (RFI) on an AI Action Plan. The development of an AI Action Plan was directed by President Trump’s Executive Order, “Removing

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 19, 2025

Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has released its strategic roadmap for 2025, outlining critical initiatives designed to reinforce its role as a central authority in the Open Source ecosystem. We presented this plan to OSI’s Affiliates a few weeks ago and decided to share it more broadly. This plan

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 18, 2025

Favorite Every year, public authorities in the European Union spend around 14% of annual GDP on services, works and goods. As European governments continue to digitalize, a growing share of this spending is on digital solutions. Sadly, few of these solutions are built on Open Source software, but that might

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 12, 2025

Favorite The United Nations Open Source United community and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) today announced that the OSI has become the first organization to officially endorse the UN Open Source Principles. The UN Open Source Principles, recently adopted by the UN Chief Executive Board’s Digital Technology Network (DTN), provide guidelines to

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 11, 2025

Favorite A year ago we called on Meta to stop calling Llama 2  “Open Source.” Since then, Meta has released new versions of Llama with new licensing terms that continue to fail the Open Source Definition. Llama 3.x is still not Open Source by any stretch of the imagination. Despite

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Shared by voicesofopensource February 18, 2025