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Happenings in our Community
- 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
Celebrating maintainers, founders, and the future of Open Source
- Members Newsletter – May 2025 May is Maintainer Month—a time to recognize the essential work of those who build, fix, review, and secure the code that the world relies on every day. At OSI, we know...
- — Nick Vidal 2025-05-07 21:00:00
New project highlights Open Source Initiative and Apereo Foundation’s response to White House on AI
- The Institute for Progress (IFP), a non-partisan U.S. think tank focused on innovation policy, announced a new project that highlights responses to the Trump Administration’s request for public com...
- — Katie Steen-James 2025-04-29 23:31:09
