Favorite Members Newsletter – December 2024 Our work thrives because of a passionate community dedicated to Open Source values. From advancing initiatives like the Open Source AI Definition to addressing challenges in licensing and policy, collaboration has always been our driving force. While 2024 brought significant progress, the challenges ahead demand even greater collective action.…
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Improving Open Source security with the new GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
Favorite The Open Source community underpins much of today’s software innovation, but with this power comes responsibility. Security vulnerabilities, unclear licensing, and a lack of transparency in software components pose significant risks to software supply chains. Recognizing this challenge, GitHub recently announced the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund—a transformative initiative aimed at bolstering the security…
Celebrating 5 years at the Open Source Initiative: a journey of growth, challenges, and community engagement
Favorite Reaching the five-year mark at the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been a huge privilege. It’s been a whirlwind of progress, personal growth, and community engagement—filled with highs, great challenges, and plenty of Open Source celebrations. As I reflect on this milestone, it’s impossible not to feel both gratitude and excitement for what lies…
Highlights from the Digital Public Goods Alliance Annual Members Meeting 2024
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 advocates working to create a…
Give Your Input on the State of Open Source Survey
Favorite As we announced back in September, the OSI has partnered again with OpenLogic by Perforce to produce a comprehensive report on global, industry-wide Open Source software adoption trends. The 2025 State of Open Source Report will be based on responses to a survey of those working with Open Source software in their organizations, from…
Open Data and Open Source AI: Charting a course to get more of both
Favorite While working to define Open Source AI, we realized that data governance is an unresolved issue. The Open Source Initiative organized a workshop to discuss data sharing and governance for AI training. The critical question posed to attendees was “How can we best govern and share data to power Open Source AI?” The main…
The Open Source Initiative and the Eclipse Foundation to Collaborate on Shaping Open Source AI (OSAI) Public Policy
Favorite BRUSSELS and WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – 14 November 2024 – The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source foundations, and the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the global non-profit educating about and advocating for the benefits of open source and steward of the Open Source Definition, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)…
ClearlyDefined v2.0 adds support for LicenseRefs
Favorite One of the major focuses of the ClearlyDefined Technical Roadmap is the improvement in the quality of license data. As such, we are excited to announce the release of ClearlyDefined v2.0 which adds over 2,000 new well-known licenses it can identify. You can see the complete list of new non-SPDX licenses in ScanCode LicenseDB. A little historical background, when…
ClearlyDefined at SOSS Fusion 2024: a collaborative solution to Open Source license compliance
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 technology, and public policy for…
Members Newsletter – November 2024
Favorite After more than two years of collaboration, information gathering, global workshopping, testing, and an in-depth co-design process, we have an Open Source AI Definition. The purpose of version 1.0 is to establish a workable standard for developers, researchers, and educators to consider how they may design evaluations for AI systems’ openness. The meaningful ability to…