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By OSI Staff on 16 Aug 2022

In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative explores copyrights in the context of software and data with OSI board member Pamela Chestek.

The post Episode 1: Copyright, Selfie Monkeys and the Hand of God first appeared on Voices of Open Source.

By OSI Staff on 12 Aug 2022

Deep Dive: AI has officially started! The podcast is live and you should subscribe now so you don’t miss any of the five episodes of this first series.

The post We’re exploring the role of Open Source in AI first appeared on Voices of Open Source.

By Simon Phipps on 11 Aug 2022

App stores require that Open Source developers constantly jump through ever-changing hoops. This is an unsustainable demand. Read a proposal on how to change that.

The post How to make app stores friendly to Open Source first appeared on Voices of Open Source.

By Stefano Maffulli on 5 Aug 2022

With AI systems being so complex, concepts like “program” or “source code” in the Open Source Definition are challenged in new and surprising ways.

The post Welcome to Deep Dive AI first appeared on Voices of Open Source.

By OSI Staff on 4 Aug 2022

We spent this past weekend in Los Angeles at the SCaLE 19X conference and it...

The post Reflecting on SCaLE 19x first appeared on Voices of Open Source.

By Chris Aniszczyk and Ana Jiménez Santamaría on 3 Aug 2022

There are five common stages of the OSPOs that identify the status of your organization’s involvement in Open Source: use it as suggestions to advance your Open Source journey.

The post The five stages of the Open Source Program Office first appeared on Voices of Open Source.

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.