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Happenings in our Community

SIGCSE Affiliated Event

I am looking forward to the SIGCSE Affiliated event on HFOSS Education. COVID set back many academic communities for a couple of years as we focused on both caring for and educating students in cha...
— Heidi Ellis 2025-02-20 16:54:17

Podcast on Mentoring in Open Source

A week or so ago I had the opportunity to connect with my good friend Emily Lovell who is an OSPO Incubator Fellow at UC Santa Cruz and talk about Mentoring in Open Source. The podcast was led by J...
— Heidi Ellis 2024-06-30 23:48:03

Liblouis Joins Software Freedom Conservancy

The liblouis project and Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) are excited to announce that liblouis has joined SFC as a member project, with the goal of ensu...

2025-03-17 15:53:50

SFC Files Amicus Brief in Support of Users' Rights under AGPLv3§7

SFC filed an amicus brief in the ongoing case of Neo4j, Inc. v. PureThink, LLC, which is now appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The appeal focuses on a downst...

2025-01-14 00:31:47

May is Maintainer Month: Celebrating those who secure Open Source

Maintainer Month returns this May, and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is proud to join GitHub and a global community of contributors in honoring the individuals who steward and sustain Open Sourc...
— Nick Vidal 2025-04-22 16:43:19

Advance your career and organization with the CODE certification

We're excited to highlight the Certified Open Source Developer for Enterprise (CODE) certification, led by the TODO Group and Linux Foundation Training & Certification, with the Open Source In...
— Nick Vidal 2025-04-17 12:34:21