Favorite A few weeks ago I attended Open Source Summit Europe 2024, an event organized by the Linux Foundation, that brought together brilliant developers, technologists and leaders from all over the world, reinforcing what Open Source is truly about—collaboration, innovation and community. I had the honor of leading a session
Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) proudly participated in the Open Source Congress 2024, held from August 25-27 in Beijing, China. This event was a gathering for key individuals in the Open Source nonprofit community, aiming to foster collaboration, innovation, and strategic development within the ecosystem. Here are some highlights
Favorite KubeCon China 2024 was a whirlwind of innovation, community and technical deep dives. As it often happens at these community events, I was blown away by the energy, enthusiasm and sheer amount of knowledge being shared. Here are three key takeaways that stood out to me: 1. The focus
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
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
Favorite As part of the Open Source AI Definition roadshow and as we approach the first release candidate of the draft, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) participated at PyCon US 2024, the annual gathering of the Python community. This opportunity was important because PyCon US brings together AI practitioners and
Favorite The supply-side value of widely-used Open Source software is estimated to be worth $4.15 billion, and the demand-side value is much larger, at $8.8 trillion. And yet, maintaining a healthy business while producing Open Source software feels more like an art than a science. The Open Source Initiative wants
Favorite In 2023, AWS announced an expanded collaboration with Hugging Face to accelerate our customers’ generative artificial intelligence (AI) journey. Hugging Face, founded in 2016, is the premier AI platform with over 500,000 open source models and more than 100,000 datasets. Over the past year, we have partnered to make
Favorite Once again Bosch’s campus in Berlin received ORT Community Days, the annual event organized by the OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) community. ORT is an Open Source suite of tools to automate software compliance checks. During this two day event, members from startups like Double Open and NexB, as well
Favorite As a community manager, I find FOSS Backstage to be one of my favorite conferences content-wise and community-wise. This is a conference that happens every year in Berlin, usually in early March. It’s a great opportunity to meet community leaders from Europe and across the world with the goal