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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.

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Brandeis University and Open Source Initiative to Launch New Educational Partnership.

Submitted by administrator on Tue, 2019-07-16 21:37

Resources designed to fill key skills gaps as open source industry matures.

OSCON – PORTLAND, OR – July 17, 2019 – Brandeis University’s Graduate Professional Studies division (GPS) will partner with The Open Source Initiative® (OSI) to provide new educational offerings for the open source community, the university announced at OSCON 2019.

Juniper Networks Extends Commitment to Open Source Software and Communities through Open Source Initiative Sponsorship.

Submitted by administrator on Sun, 2019-07-14 10:52

Generous support from long-standing open source collaborator and contributor will advance open source alignment and foster open standards.

OSCON, Portland, OR - July 15, 2019 – Juniper Networks firmly believes open source and open standards foster greater innovation, and for years has actively participated in a variety of open source communities and key standards bodies, including FreeBSD Foundation, Linux Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and OpenStack Foundation. Today Juniper Networks extends that support though OSI sponsorship.

Open Source Initiative Welcomes TODO Group as Affiliate Member

Submitted by administrator on Mon, 2019-07-01 09:14

PALO ALTO, Calif. - July 2, 2019 -- The Open Source Initiative announced today the affiliate membership of TODO Group. Boasting membership from some of today's most active corporations working in and with Open Source Software, the TODO Group shares experiences, develops best practices, and collaborates around common tooling to address some of the most common challenges related to open source program management, development, deployment, and management.

Publication of Research on Company Contributions to OSS Projects

Submitted by administrator on Sun, 2019-06-30 13:25

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering has published an article on company contributions to community open source projects authored by partners in the LIM-IT project. "On Company Contributions to Community OSS Projects" reports an investigation of how practitioners working for businesses interact with eight community OSS projects of various sizes in diverse domains, including cloud computing and the internet of things. The article also investigates why contributors working for companies use particular ways of working to achieve the strategic aims of the businesses that commission their work.

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