Favorite French President Emmanuel Macron alongside NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Mistral AI’s Arthur Mensch celebrated a landmark partnership at Vivatech 2025 last week aimed at propelling Europe to the forefront of the global AI race with a strategic move toward European technological sovereignty. But what could truly support achieving
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Shared by voicesofopensource June 18, 2025
Favorite Open Source Founders Summit (#05F525), held May 19–20 in Paris, brought together a vibrant community of Open Source entrepreneurs, builders, and advocates for two days of deep, engaging conversations about what it takes to create sustainable, successful Open Source companies. As part of the action, the Open Source Initiative
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Shared by voicesofopensource May 20, 2025
Favorite Maintainer Month returns this May, and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is proud to join GitHub and a global community of contributors in honoring the individuals who steward and sustain Open Source projects. In 2025, Maintainer Month enters its fourth year with a clear and urgent theme: Securing Open
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Shared by voicesofopensource April 22, 2025
Favorite This month, I had the privilege of representing the Open Source Initiative at the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) Annual Members Meeting. Held in Singapore, this event marked our second year participating as members, following our first participation in Ethiopia. It was an inspiring gathering of innovators, developers and
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Shared by voicesofopensource November 26, 2024
Favorite This past month, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) hosted SOSS Fusion in Atlanta, an event that brought together a diverse community of leaders and innovators from across the digital security spectrum. The conference, held on October 22-23, explored themes central to today’s technological landscape: AI security, diversity in
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Shared by voicesofopensource November 6, 2024
Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is running a blog series to introduce some of the people who have been actively involved in the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) co-design process. The co-design methodology allows for the integration of diverging perspectives into one just, cohesive and feasible standard. Support and
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Shared by voicesofopensource October 10, 2024
Favorite At the 10th anniversary of Nerdearla, one of the largest Open Source conferences in Latin America, Mer Joyce, Co-Design Facilitator of the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID), delivered a key presentation titled “Defining Open Source AI”. Held in Buenos Aires from September 24-28, 2024, this major event brought together
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Shared by voicesofopensource October 3, 2024
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
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Shared by voicesofopensource October 1, 2024
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
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Shared by voicesofopensource September 4, 2024
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
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Shared by voicesofopensource August 27, 2024