Favorite In October, the OSI hosted the State of the Source Track at All Things Open designed to connect developers with the big policy conversations shaping our ecosystem. Ruth Suehle, Patrick Masson, Amir Montazery, and Duane O’Brien organized the panel Beyond the Bottom Line: Sustaining the Open Source Ecosystem, exploring
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Shared by voicesofopensource November 3, 2025
Favorite In October, the OSI hosted the State of the Source Track at All Things Open designed to connect developers with the big policy conversations shaping our ecosystem. Pamela Chestek, emeritus OSI Board member, opened the track with Licensing 201, an advanced but practical look at how licenses get approved
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Shared by voicesofopensource October 31, 2025
Favorite On 16–17 September 2025, leaders from across the Open Source ecosystem gathered in Brussels for the third annual Open Source Congress (OSC), followed by the companion Stakeholder Day. This convening continues a journey that began in Geneva in 2023 (hosted by the Linux Foundation) and Beijing in 2024 (hosted
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Shared by voicesofopensource October 7, 2025
Favorite At this year’s Open Source Summit EU (OSS EU 2025) and AI_dev EU 2025, Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of OSI, and Jordan Maris, OSI’s EU Policy Analyst, presented a summary of 10 months since the release of the Open Source AI Definition v1.0. The two talks at the events
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Shared by voicesofopensource September 10, 2025
Favorite The UN’s Open Source Week in New York City brought people together from around the world to discuss the promise of Open Source and how it can be leveraged to build sustainable digital public goods and infrastructure. Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the OSI, was joined by board directors
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Shared by voicesofopensource July 8, 2025
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