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By OSI Staff on 14 Jun 2022

By Patrick Masson, General Manager, Apereo Foundation This post is in support of the Open Apereo...

The post Higher Ed needs to step up to stay relevant as Open Source floods the IT world first appeared on Voices of Open Source.

By OSI Staff on 9 Jun 2022

There are all sorts of people maintaining Open Source software, from developers to quality assurance,...

The post The OSI celebrates maintainer month first appeared on Voices of Open Source.

By OSI Staff on 7 Jun 2022

We asked Open Weaver to share the organization’s intrinsic ties to Open Source, its reasons for supporting the Open Source Initiative, and its hopes for the Open Source movement.

The post Why OSI? Featured sponsor, Open Weaver first appeared on Voices of Open Source.

By OSI Staff on 31 May 2022

This week, we’re pleased to spotlight another OSI sponsor, Slim.AI, and learn why Open Source is important to their organization.

The post OSI Sponsor: Why OSI, Slim.AI first appeared on Voices of Open Source.

By Simon Phipps on 26 May 2022

There is a question about “standards” in the OpenUK survey this time around. Why is...

The post About The Standards Question In The OpenUK Survey first appeared on Voices of Open Source.

By OSI Staff on 24 May 2022
OpenLogic by Perforce: Why we support OSI This week, we’re pleased to spotlight OSI sponsor,...

To promote and protect open source software and communities...

For over 20 years the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has worked to raise awareness and adoption of open source software, and build bridges between open source communities of practice. As a global non-profit, the OSI champions software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition (OSD), and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement.

Open source software is made by many people and distributed under an OSD-compliant license which grants all the rights to use, study, change, and share the software in modified and unmodified form. Software freedom is essential to enabling community development of open source software.