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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

Updates to the TOS Page

The HFOSS team has been working to update the TeachingOpenSource.org page. We’ve added a news feed and we’re working on updating the learning materials. If you have learning materials t...
— Heidi Ellis 2024-05-30 15:56:49

FOSSY 2024 CFP announcement

FOSSY 2024 CFP and ticket sales are now open! Join us in Portland, OR on August 1-4th at Portland State University. This year our track selectio...

2024-05-23 17:50:46

FOSSY is back in Portland - August 1-4th at Portland State University

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Rahmat Akintola: Voices of the Open Source AI Definition

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is running a series of stories about a few of the people involved in the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) co-design process. Today, we are featuring Rahmat Akintol...
— Nick Vidal 2024-10-10 11:30:25

How we passed the AI conundrums

Some people believe that full unfettered access to all training data is paramount. This group argues that anything less than all the data would compromise the Open Source principles, forever...
— OSI 2024-10-09 17:01:26