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
Favorite The Open Source Initiative moved the website on a new platform, a baby step to improving the list of Approved Licenses. This is a weird announcement as weird was the journey that took us to this point. Let me explain how this is just a milestone for more changes
Favorite OSI to contribute to Digital Public Goods Alliance’s mission to address world’s most pressing economic challenges by furthering adoption of Open Source software BRUSSELS – February 4, 2023–Today, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) announced it has joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) as a new member. The DPGA is part
Favorite In 2022, we’ve seen a visible acceleration of interest in open source from governments around the world. Partially, this is due to the recognition that the public sector relies on Open Source for innovation and other benefits. At the same time, the tech sector is under pressure to help
Favorite The European Commission’s proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) as drafted may harm Open Source, and perhaps all other non-industrial software. There were 131 responses to the proposed text that the Commission has sent to the Parliament, including one from the Open Source Initiative. Of those, 18 responses – representing
Favorite Some time ago the Open Source Initiative formed a working group to examine and improve the license review process. The stated purpose of the working group was to: Reevaluate the criteria for approving licenses, potentially setting different standards for licenses in use versus new licenses Reevaluate the process for considering
Favorite BigBlueButton is an Open Source virtual classroom started in 2007 by OSI sponsor, Blindside Networks. What differentiates… Click Here to View Original Source (opensource.org)
Favorite Apache Cassandra is getting ready for its 5.0 release in spring 2023, together with the Cassandra Summit. Register now. Click Here to View Original Source (opensource.org)
Favorite AWS re:Invent season is upon us again! Just a few days to go until re:Invent takes place for the 11th year in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning team at AWS has been working hard to offer amazing content, an outstanding AWS DeepRacer experience, and much
Favorite Relentless advancement in technology is improving the decision-making capacity of humans and enterprises alike. Digitization of the physical world has accelerated the three dimensions of data: velocity, variety, and volume. This has made information more widely available than before, allowing for advancements in problem-solving. Now, with cloud-enabled democratized availability,