Miesiąc: marzec 2024
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Letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Raimondo urging protection of openness and transparency in AI
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) contributed, along with other members of civil society and academia, to a letter drafted by Mozilla and the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) asking the White House and Congress to exercise great caution when considering whether and how to regulate the publication of open models. The letter demonstrates how…
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Open Source AI Definition – Weekly Update Mar 25
The current draft is up for review and comment. Please spread the word with your peers as we are entering the last 2 months of drafting: this is the time to raise concerns and shape the final text of the Open Source AI Definition. Where to find the description of the “components” An article regarding…
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Simpler Licensing with VMware vSphere Foundation and VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1.1
Tweet VMware has been on a journey to simplify its portfolio and transition from a perpetual to a subscription model to better serve customers with continuous innovation, faster time to value, and predictable investments. To that end, VMware recently introduced a simplified product portfolio that consists of two primary offerings: VMware Cloud Foundation, our flagship…
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Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directors
The polls just closed, the results are in. Congratulations to the returning directors Thierry Carrez and Josh Berkus, and the newly elected director Chris Aniszczyk. Thierry Carrez has been confirmed and joins as a director elected by the Affiliate organizations. Chris Aniszczyk and Josh Berkus collected the votes of the Individual members. The OSI thanks…
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Open Source AI Definition – Weekly update Mar 18
Comments on draft 0.0.6 from the forum Point raised by participant that training data has been listed both as optional and a precondition. This might cause confusion as it is unclear whether we should have the right to access training data or know what training data was used for the model OSI has added to…
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ClearlyDefined at the ORT Community Days
Once again Bosch’s campus in Berlin received ORT Community Days, the annual event organized by the OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) community. ORT is an Open Source suite of tools to automate software compliance checks. During this two day event, members from startups like Double Open and NexB, as well as large corporations like Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen,…
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Three perspectives from FOSS Backstage
As a community manager, I find FOSS Backstage to be one of my favorite conferences content-wise and community-wise. This is a conference that happens every year in Berlin, usually in early March. It’s a great opportunity to meet community leaders from Europe and across the world with the goal of fostering discussions around three complementary…
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Open Source AI Definition – weekly update Mar 11
Big week, marked by the release of draft 0.0.6! The document is available for live comments and more general comments on the forum. Changes in the section “What is open source AI” added, “Precondition to exercise these freedoms is to have access to the preferred form to make modifications to the system.” With an example…