Favorite This month, we’re pleased to spotlight one of our sponsors, Salesforce, and learn why  Open Source is important to their organization. Salesforce is a cloud-based software company with applications that help businesses manage customers in every step of the customer journey, from lead to loyalty. The service Salesforce provides

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Shared by voicesofopensource April 13, 2023

Favorite Container adoption is soaring, thanks to Open Source. The majority of projects and tools for container management in the cloud-native ecosystem are Open Source; one example is SlimToolkit, a tool supported by Slim.AI. SlimToolkit addresses one of the most critical issues in the cloud-native ecosystem today: container security. Today,

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Shared by voicesofopensource April 6, 2023

Favorite It has been about one month since I’ve joined the Open Source Initiative, and I’ve been busy learning about ClearlyDefined and how it fits into the Open Source supply chain compliance and security ecosystem. This is an exciting area that has a major impact not just in the tech

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Shared by voicesofopensource April 4, 2023

Favorite I shared last month the details of the new OSI website, hosted on WordPress. One of the main drivers for this upgrade was to unify OSI-approved licenses with all related metadata to a consistent, reliable and easy-to-access format. From there we can incorporate the outcome of the recommendations coming out

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Shared by voicesofopensource March 30, 2023

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