Members Newsletter – October 2025

Dear Open Source Initiative supporters,

Welcome to our OSI October newsletter.  In this edition we’ll share how we spent our September and highlight our upcoming October activities.  As always, if you’re interested in more information about anything we’re working on, just drop us a note.

As summer closes and we return to the quieter rhythm of fall, I’m particularly grateful for the support of our community, industry, universities and civil society organizations supporting and amplifying our work.  In August I accepted an invitation from the OSI board to work with outgoing Executive Director Stefano Maffulli, making way for the board to begin the process of searching for their next executive director.  I’ve personally committed the coming months to supporting the OSI team and our stakeholders as Interim ED.  The board has established a search committee and expects to open a public search later this month.

Stefano’s final project on OSI’s behalf – Deep Dive: Data Governance  – was an extraordinary gathering and exchange by notable practitioners, researchers, and project leads.  The event followed months of work on the part of a range of civil society stakeholders that formed the program committee and reviewed hundreds of submitted papers. I learned so much about work underway from others by sitting in on the three days of virtual sessions, and we look forward to sharing the recordings with you soon so you can too.

I’ll be attending All Things Open in Raleigh, NC  later this month.  If you’re there too and would like to talk with me about how you can help with OSI’s mission or just float an idea, come look me up!

Deborah Bryant

Interim Executive Director, OSI 

News from the OSI

OSI charts next phase for the organization with executive director search

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) will begin searching for a new executive director as Stefano Maffulli departs in October to focus on Open Source AI and data governance.

Keep changing: How Open Source has to continually evolve

Parting message from OSI ED Stefano Maffulli

Leading OSI as executive director for a four-year term has centered me in the modern era of Open Source, where regulation has a stronger role for collaboration and impact. I’ll still be part of this movement—Join me in exploring the broader set of challenges in bringing these values to those still unfamiliar with open source and struggling to understand AI.

Other highlights

Open Source Congress 2025 and Stakeholder Day: building a global agenda for Open Source

Hacktoberfest and the OSI: Growing Open Source adoption

Read all blog posts from the OSI

OSI in the news

ETSI Elects Three Prominent Leaders to Drive the Creation of New Standards under the EU Cyber Resilience Act

OSI Policy and Standards Director Simon Phipps elected Vice-Chair of ETSI EUSR Working Group

ETSI is pleased to announce it has elected three new officials to lead EUSR Working Group within TC CYBER, a standardisation working group to support the EU Cyber Resilience Act. In response to a request from the European Commission in early June of this year, ETSI is facilitating the harmonisation of cybersecurity standards for digital products across the EU.  Its three new appointments, Sandra Feliciano (Chair), Dr George Sharkov (Vice-Chair), and Simon Phipps (Vice-Chair) bring a wealth of diverse expertise in standardisation, conformity assessment, SMEs and open source software development.

Other highlights

Why pgEdge ‘Ripped the Band-Aid Off’ To Go Totally Open Source (The New Stack)

The Open Source Initiative’s executive director departs – what it means for the OSAID debate (ZDNet)

Read all press mentions from this past month

Other news

News from OSI affiliates and partners

Apache Software Foundation (ASF): Introducing The ASF’s New Logo

Apereo Foundation: The Opportunities and Challenges of Building OSPOs at Research Institutions and Across University Systems

Creative Commons: From Shared Vision to Global Action: Paving the Road to the Open Heritage Statement

Digital Public Goods Alliance: 50-in-5 Milestone Event Welcomes New Countries, Driving Global Cooperation to Advance Safe, Inclusive, and Interoperable DPI

Free Software Foundation Europe: Software Freedom in Europe 2025

OpenJS Foundation: Celebrating the Launch of the React Foundation

OpenSSF, OpenJS Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Python Software Foundation, Rust Foundation: Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship

OpenUK: The Shifting Power Dynamics in Open Source: Rug Pulls, Relicensing and Forks

Python Software Foundation: Announcing the 2025 PSF Board Election Results!

Rust Foundation: RustConf 2025 in Review: Rust for the Road Ahead

The Document Foundation: LibreOffice turns 15: a celebration of freedom, collaboration and open technologies and standards

The Document Foundation: TDF Annual Report 2024

Wikimedia Foundation: The 3 building blocks of trustworthy information: Lessons from Wikipedia

Research

A Cartography of Open Collaboration in Open Source AI: Mapping Practices, Motivations, and Governance in 14 Open Large Language Model Projects

Survey

2026 State of Open Source Survey

Perforce OpenLogic and Zend, in collaboration with OSI and Eclipse Foundation, is seeking responses from OSS users to gather data for the next State of Open Source Report.

Events

Upcoming events

All Things Open (October 12-14 – Raleigh)

Code & Compliance (October 22-23 – Brussels)

Open Source AI Week (October 18-26 – San Francisco)

An Evening of Open: Science, Software and AI (October 23 – San Francisco)

SFSCON (November 7-8 – Bolzano)

OpenForum Academy Symposium (November 18-19 – Rio de Janeiro)

DPGA Annual Members Meeting (November 24-26 – Brasilia)

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