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Favorite 2023 was a big year of progress toward our goal of establishing a Definition for Open Source AI, but we still have a long way to go. Strong momentum of global collaboration toward this end will continue in 2024, and we need your help. I detailed what we have
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Shared by voicesofopensource February 7, 2024
Favorite During 2023, OSI and many others across the Open Source communities spent a great deal of time and energy engaging with the various co-legislators of the European Union (EU) concerning the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Together with a revision to Europe’s Product Liability Directive (PLD), the CRA will bring
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource February 2, 2024
Favorite Brussels, February 1, 2024 – Today, the results of the annual Open Source survey conducted by OpenLogic by Perforce in collaboration with the OSI and the Eclipse Foundation were shared in the 2024 State of Open Source Report. The 2024 State of Open Source Report sheds light on the
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource February 1, 2024
Favorite At the August board meeting, the OSI board voted to add two new appointed seats, and at the December board meeting named Professor Sayeed Choudhury and Gaël Blondelle as new board members. The expansion of the board was voted upon to give greater operational stability and continuity to the
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Favorite In OSI’s feedback to the European Commission’s proposed Standard Essential Patent (SEP) Regulation (SEP-R), OSI recommended that the legislation add a waiting period for patent claims registered under the regulation as standard-essential after the standard has been ratified. The recommendation was based on the social purpose behind tolerating the
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource January 31, 2024
Favorite OSI announced a public forum to widen the conversations that will lead to version 1.0 of the Open Source AI Definition. The forums are part of our commitment to inclusiveness and transparency, matching the public town hall meetings that started two weeks ago. The public forum‘s goal is to
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource January 26, 2024
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 The results of elections
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Favorite The Open Source Initiative published today a new report that looks at the history of the business practice to delay releasing their code under freedom-respecting licenses. Since the early days of the Open Source movement, companies have experimented with finding a balance between granting their users the basic freedoms
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource January 10, 2024
Favorite At the beginning of 2023, I started as a community manager for ClearlyDefined, with the goals of creating an open governance model for the project and helping the OSI to establish a neutral infrastructure to foster collaboration among multiple stakeholders. Thanks to the amazing work from our community members,
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Favorite The OSI joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) at the beginning of 2023 to support its mission to accelerate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of and investment in digital public goods. Digital public goods
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