Re-Running Our 2021 Board Election
We’ve already let our candidates, affiliate representatives and voting members know, but we also wanted to let the public know. This week we found a vulnerability in our voting processes…
Press Releases
OSI Events: Future & Recent Appearances
Are you missing catching up with OSI at events? We miss it too! We have been staying busy with online events and hope you’ll be able to stay current with…
Big Gains for Open Aerospace: Interview with Open Research Institute
The Open Research Institute (ORI) is an OSI Affiliate project that works to facilitate worldwide collaboration in the development of technology. The past year has been a particularly exciting one…
Approved: Four New Open Source Licenses
As the steward of the Open Source Definition, the Open Source Initiative has been designating licenses as “open source” for over 20 years. These licenses are the foundation of the…
New Affiliate Member Joins OSI: The TeX Users Group
The TeX Users Group (TUG) is new to the OSI Affiliate program, but not new to the world. It’s a membership-based not-for-profit that was founded in 1980 to encourage and…
Modernizing Our Mission Statement
We have reworked our mission statement. First of all, our positions have not changed but the activities that we focus on going forward will continue to extend beyond license approval….
The Evolution of OSI as a Workplace
Part of our big growth year at OSI has been on the back end. One piece of that is thinking about our organization as a workplace and what it’s like…
OSI and Friends at Virtual FOSDEM
FOSDEM is a long running free and open source community event that has moved online for its 21st year. This year’s event will be a little different, but the silver…
The SSPL is Not an Open Source License
We’ve seen that several companies have abandoned their original dedication to the open source community by switching their core products from an open source license, one approved by the Open…
LCA: Catch Talks by OSI Staff and Community
Linux.conf.au (aka LCA) is a lovely community conference based in Australasia that will be entering its 22nd year in 2021. The volunteer-run event is known for getting deeply technical on…
Facebook’s Visdom Project is now Open Source and Transitioned to OSI Affiliate FOSSASIA
OSI Affiliate FOSSASIA welcomes the Visdom data visualization project. The project has been developed at Facebook AI Research since 2017. As part of the transition from Facebook to FOSSASIA Visdom…
State of the Source Presentations Available to Watch
Did you miss State of the Source? Not to worry we have you covered! Presentations from our first ever world wide summit are available to view on our Youtube channel. You…