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Favorite Building a healthy Open Source community is much more than just choosing an Open Source license for the project. It involves creating a contributing guide, adopting a code of conduct, and establishing an open governance structure that allows all members to actively participate in and contribute to the project.
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Shared by voicesofopensource May 9, 2023
Favorite Powerful Artificial Intelligence technology is pressing more questions on Open Source and society every day. AI is contributing to important breakthroughs and we’re only beginning to see the potential for innovation it can bring to fields such as climate, health, agriculture and mobility (to name just a few). Recently
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource April 20, 2023
Favorite I shared last month the details of the new OSI website, hosted on WordPress. One of the main drivers for this upgrade was to unify OSI-approved licenses with all related metadata to a consistent, reliable and easy-to-access format. From there we can incorporate the outcome of the recommendations coming out
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource March 30, 2023
Favorite I joined Javier Perez on a webinar reviewing the results of the 2023 State of Open Source survey, a collaborative effort between OpenLogic by Perforce and the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Open Source users from all eight global regions, working in 20+ industries in organizations of all sizes were anonymously
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource March 28, 2023
Favorite The polls just closed, the results are in. Congratulations to the returning directors Aeva Black, and Catharina Maracke, and the newly elected director Anne-Marie Scott. Anne-Marie Scott has been confirmed and joins as a director elected by the Affiliate organizations. She’ll take the seat that was occupied by Hong-Phuc
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource March 21, 2023
Favorite OSI is pleased to announce our 2023 Open Source Initiative License Clinic, an in-person event to be held April 4th in Washington D.C. This one day workshop will cover advanced topics on open source software licenses of interest to the US federal government as well as emerging issues such
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource March 16, 2023
Favorite The nominations for the Open Source Initiative board of elections just closed, March 6th. It’s time for voters to meet the candidates. The OSI board of directors will renew three of its seats with an open election process among its full individual members and affiliates. We will be holding
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource March 7, 2023
Favorite ClearlyDefined has a new community manager! Nick Vidal has joined the project hosted by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) that helps Open Source projects thrive by putting essential licensing data at teams’ fingertips. Vidal comes with 20 years of experience developing Open Source communities and will lead ClearlyDefined to
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource February 28, 2023
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 2023
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource February 21, 2023
Favorite I joined Javier Perez and Rod Cope of Perforce in a webinar entitled Open Source Trends to Watch in 2023 where we reviewed our 2022 predictions and laid out some new ones for 2023. To begin, our recap of last year’s predictions showed that we were on target with the
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource February 15, 2023