Giving a voice to non-profit organizations

Wed Jul 12 16:32:16 BST 2023

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We’ve been hearing a call for a wider range of stakeholder participation
in public dialog around policies that impact Open Source software and
adjacent technologies. We heard that call and the OSI Public Policy team
responded by forming the Open Policy Alliance (OPA)..

With a focus on educating policy makers in the US, the aim of OPA is to
collaborate globally with members of public benefit and charitable
foundations with an interest in Open Source software, content, research and
education to create a more inclusive and equitable future for Open Source.
We’ve got an impressive group of founding members: Apereo Foundation,
FreeBSD Foundation, open at RIT, OpenInfra Foundation, Plone Foundation,
Python Software Foundation, Associazione LibreItalia, The Document
Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, KDE Foundation, OpenForum Europe, Open
Source Hong Kong and OpenStreetMap Foundation. Won’t you join us [3]? 

Stefano Maffulli
Executive Director, OSI 

_I hold weekly office hours on Fridays [4]with OSI members: book time if
you want to chat about OSI’s activities, if you want to volunteer or have
suggestions. _

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 		 What's "Open Source AI" for you? 

The OSI is looking for proposals that will describe problem areas in AI and
contain clear suggestions for solutions. We’d like to focus on
identifying the principles of "open" we can all agree are positive for
society.

Send your proposal for the Deep Dive webinar series

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 		 Modern EU policies need the voices of the fourth sector 

The European Commission needs to extend its consultations, expert groups
and other work to include and consider the fourth sector. Read more. [6]

 		 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 Digital Rights (EDRi) expressing concern that the
Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) draft currently under consideration still
includes mandatory requirements for vulnerability disclosure that violate
best practices in Open Source software collaborations and are likely to
actually undermine the security of digital products and the individuals who
use them. Read more. [7]

 		 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. Read more. [8]

 		 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 from patent trolls.Read more. [9]

 		 Open Source shaking up document databases, setting new standards 

The founders of FerretDB, an Open Source document database using PostgreSQL
as the database backend, is working with different stakeholders on
developing a standard for document databases, the same way as SQL was
created as a standard for relational databases in the 1980s, with the
objective of reducing the risk of vendor lock-in for users. Read more. [10]

 		 Modern EU policies need the voices of the fourth sector

The European Commission needs to extend its consultations, Expert Groups
and other work to include and consider the fourth sector. Read more [6].

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Let's build a world where knowledge is freely shared, ideas are nurtured,
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 		 OSI in the news

	* Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI
[12] Open source evolved to deal with code in the 1970s and ’80s. Today
they must again transform to deal with AI models.

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find out more about how your organization can promote open source
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[3] https://opensource.org/programs/open-policy-alliance/
[4] https://cal.com/smaffulli/osi-members-chat
[5] https://sessionize.com/deepdiveai
[6] https://blog.opensource.org/modern-eu-policies-need-the-voices-of-the-fourth-sector/
[7] https://blog.opensource.org/osi-calls-for-revision-of-disclosure-rules-in-cra/
[8] https://blog.opensource.org/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/
[9] https://blog.opensource.org/osis-comments-to-us-patent-and-trademark-office/
[10] https://blog.opensource.org/open-source-shaking-up-document-databases-setting-new-standards/
[11] https://members.opensource.org/join/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/open_source_licenses_ai/
[13] https://opensource.org/contact
[14] https://www.twitter.com/opensourceorg
[15] https://opensource.org
[16] https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-source-initiative-osi-/
[17] https://www.youtube.com/c/OpenSourceInitiative

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