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To trust AI, it must be open and transparent. Period. [SPONSOR OPINION] By Heather Meeker, OSS Capital Machine learning has been around for […]

Open Source Initiative Hosts 2nd Deep Dive AI Event, Aims to Define ‘Open Source’ for AIThe Open Source Definition isn’t directly applicable to AI s […]

The Approved Open Source Licenses never looked better A license-review project has been underway with the goal of creating a systematic and […]

Diverse Open Source uses highlight need for precision in Cyber Resilience Act As the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is entering into the final […]

Driving the global conversation about “Open Source AI”The Open Source Initiative (OSI) continues the work of exploring complexities surrounding the […]

COSCUP Unveiled (Thanks to Paloma Oliveira for this contribution!) Reflecting on how to improve our open communities Navigating uncharted […]

Celebrating 25 years of Open Source at Campus Party The Open Source Initiative (OSI) continues to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Open Source at […]

Takeaways from the “Defining Open AI” community workshop The Open Source Initiative is deep into a multi-stakeholder process to define machine […]

Meta’s LLaMa 2 license is not Open Source OSI is pleased to see that Meta is lowering barriers for access to powerful AI systems. Unfortunately, the […]

Three takeaways from Data + AI SummitA few weeks ago I had the privilege of attending the Data + AI Summit in San Francisco. It was one of the best […]

Towards a definition of “Open Artificial Intelligence”: First meeting recap The Open Source Initiative recently kicked off a multi-stakeholder process […]

Convening public benefit and charitable foundations working in open domains SAN FRANCISCO – July 12, 2023 – The public policy team of the Open Sou […]

Modern EU policies need the voices of the fourth sector Traduit en français. It’s good news that the European Commission is now considering th […]

Open Source shaking up document databases, setting new standards Currently there is no Open Source common interface for document databases, but […]

Open Policy Alliance: A new program to amplify underrepresented voices in public policy development On behalf of the Open Source Initiative and the […]

OSI’s comments to US Patent and Trademark Office OSI submitted its comments to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to defend Open Source […]

Digital activists and open movement leaders share their perspective with Open Future in new research report, “Shifting tides: the open movement at a turning point” Open Future conducted a study to gain a better understanding of the current state of the open movement, as seen through the eyes of people actively involved in its endeavors and leading organizations within the movement. Open Future believes that a shared movement identity and a shared advocacy agenda can make the collective effort stronger. This study aimed to see whether this perspective is shared and whether it can form a basis for building a shared movement agenda for the decades to come. With this study, Open Future was interested in identifying trends that transform the movement and understanding the challenges and needs of activists and organizations as these changes occur. They also set out to understand how and whether the open movement can be perceived as a whole. There have been studies and reports focused on a single field of openness, such as Open Access or Open Data, but relatively few attempts to understand this broader activist space. This most recent study focused on a qualitative survey of open movement leaders. The report, which you can read in its entirety here, can be summarized into sections: Speaking with open movement leaders Most interviewees reported learning of the open movement through participation in copyright reform activism and policy. Others were introduced through: Open Source and Open Hardware activism Open Knowledge, Open Access, Open Education, or Open Data activism Community-building work Their employers, entering the field with no previous activist background Open Activism as a social movement Open Future proposed the following working definition for the open movement: The open movement consists of people, communities, and organizations who (1) contribute to shared resources online that are available for everyone to use and reuse, (2) and/or advocate for non-exclusive access and use of information resources. However, although the research project began with the assumption that there is an open movement which can be defined and whose boundaries can be traced, the interviews found that there is little collective sense of such a movement. Moreso, there is a collective sense of the open movement as a loose network, tied together by value alignment. The open movement, at a turning point as seen by its leaders This section shows how the movement is shifting. Interviewees have been observing changes, and argue for further change. Open Future analyzed these shifts in four categories: The people The zeitgeist The world The sustainability of the open movement The need for change Factors both internal and external to the movement were identified in the study. Collectively, the following needs were revealed: Need for new voices Need for new narratives Need for relevance Need for maintenance Ways forward To address these needs, those interviewed resonated strongly with two ways forward: A shared agenda Advocacy as a driver for collective action You can download a full copy of the report at this link: https://openfuture.eu/publication/shifting-tides/ You can provide feedback directly in the publication here or by writing to Alek Tarkowski at alek@openfuture.eu. Images created by Open Future. The post Digital activists and open movement leaders share their perspective with Open Future in new research report, “Shifting tides: the open movement at a turning point” appeared first on Voic […]

OSI calls for revision of disclosure rules in CRA OSI is a co-signatory of an open letter sent this week to the European Parliament by European […]

Now is the time to define Open Source AI You’ve seen so many announcements about new releases of AI large language models, foundational models, t […]

Action needed to protect against patent trolls The Linux Foundation, Unified Patents and Electronic Frontier Foundation hosted a webinar this week […]