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Red Hat: Moving from a proprietary to an open source culture

Submitted by Jessica on Thu, 2022-02-17 05:30
Joining and contributing to an open source community is a great way to use your skills in creative ways while getting exposure to interesting projects that will expand your skill set. This video shared one person’s experience transitioning from a proprietary environment to open source.

Ten takeaways from the 2022 State of Open Source survey

Submitted by jperez on Tue, 2022-02-15 06:00
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and OpenLogic by Perforce joined forces to conduct a global survey about the State of Open Source software. In only six weeks, we drew 2,660 respondents from every corner of the globe and from companies of all sizes representing over 15 different industries.

Lex Pan Law: Why we support the OSI

Submitted by Jessica on Tue, 2022-02-08 05:30
Lex Pan Law is a full-service technology and intellectual property law firm based in Portland, Oregon. With a deep background in patent law also provides specialized advice to engineering teams and engineering management about the complex intersection between technology and the law. Having a long-standing interest in the intersection of copyright law and technology, the firm has extensive experience and community contacts in the free and open source licensing world.

How OSI will renew its Board of Directors in 2022

Submitted by Jessica on Thu, 2022-02-03 05:31
In the next few months, the OSI board of directors will renew four of its seats with an open election process among its full individual members and affiliates. There will be two elections in March: The Affiliate organizations will elect two directors and Individual members will elect two directors.

Spotlight on Libre Space Foundation, OSI Associate Member

Submitted by Jessica on Thu, 2022-01-27 08:32
OSI Associate Member Libre Space Foundation (LSF) is a non-profit foundation registered in Greece whose vision is “an Open and Accessible Outer Space for all.” Recently, on behalf of the OpenSatCom.org activity of the European Space Agency, they partnered with Inno3 to investigate open source development models in the satellite communications industry and share their findings in a report.
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To promote and protect open source software and communities...

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.