Favorite Earlier this month the Open Source Initiative participated in the “OSPOs for Good” event promoted by the United Nations in NYC. Stefano Maffulli, the Executive Director of the OSI, participated in a panel moderated by Mehdi Snene about Open Source AI alongside distinguished speakers Ashley Kramer, Craig Ramlal,  Sasha

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Shared by voicesofopensource July 24, 2024

Favorite ClearlyDefined, an Open Source project that helps organizations with supply chain compliance,  now provides a new harvester implementation for conda, a popular package manager with a large collection of pre-built packages for various domains, including data science, machine learning, scientific computing and more. Conda provides package, dependency and environment

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Shared by voicesofopensource July 23, 2024

Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is running a series of stories about a few of the people involved in the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) co-design process. Today, we are featuring Cailean Osborne, one of the volunteers who has helped to shape and are shaping the OSAID. Question: What’s your background

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Shared by voicesofopensource July 18, 2024

Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is pleased to share that we are joining the founding team of Open Forum for AI (OFAI), an initiative designed by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to foster a human-centered approach to artificial intelligence. OFAI aims to enhance our understanding of AI and its potential

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Shared by voicesofopensource July 15, 2024

Favorite It has been quiet over the 4th of July weekend on the forums and OSI has been speaking at different events: @stefano spoke in a panel at the UN event OSPOs for Good. Access the recording here. @mer is speaking at Open Source Community Africa OSI was present at

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Shared by voicesofopensource July 15, 2024

Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is running a series of stories about a few of the people involved in the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) co-design process. We’ll be featuring the voices of the volunteers who have helped shape and are shaping the Definition. The OSI started researching the

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Shared by voicesofopensource July 10, 2024

Favorite ClearlyDefined is an Open Source project that helps organizations with supply chain compliance. Until recently, ClearlyDefined’s tooling only supported licenses that were part of the standardized SPDX license list. Any component identified by a license that was not part of this list resulted in NOASSERTION, which introduced uncertainty about

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Shared by voicesofopensource July 9, 2024

Favorite On June 19-20, the Linux Foundation hosted AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit Europe 2024. This event brought together developers exploring the complex world of Open Source generative AI and Machine Learning. Central to this event is the conviction that Open Source drives innovation in AI. Please find

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Shared by voicesofopensource July 3, 2024

Favorite An open call to test OpenVLA Last week @quaid suggested conducting a controlled experiment to determine if data information alone is sufficient to recreate an AI model with fidelity to the original. He shared insights from the OpenVLA project, noting its possible compliance with the requirements of draft v0.0.8

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Shared by voicesofopensource July 1, 2024

Favorite Explaining the concept of Data information Following @stefano’s publication regarding why the OSI considers training data to be “optional” under the checklist in Open Source AI Definition, the debate has continued. Here are the main points: Preferred Form of Modification @hartmans states finding an agreement on the meaning of

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Shared by voicesofopensource June 24, 2024