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SFC signs open letter to Keep Android Open
Today Software Freedom Conservancy joins many other organizations in signing an open letter to Google asking that Android continue to a...
- 2026-02-24 19:44:04
FOSSY 2026 track proposals are open!
FOSSY 2026 (August 6th – 9th 2026 at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada) has opened our call for
Open Education and the Shared Roots of Openness
Members Newsletter – March 2026
Open Education Week invites us to reflect on something that will feel familiar to everyone in this community: the idea that knowledge is most powerful when i...- — Nick Vidal 2026-03-11 16:29:12
OSI Adopts SPDX IDs for License URLs
The OSI has standardized license URLs using SPDX identifiers, while carefully preserving compatibility with the many links that already exist across the web and tools.
TOS Holds a Sprint to Develop FOSS Courses
- A team of faculty involved with TeachingOpenSource (TOS) are working on four Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) courses that will be available under a Creative Commons license.
- — Greg Hislop 2018-06-29 17:05:26
Some Tech Firm Perspectives on Hiring
- I recently attended a meeting with local tech companies to discuss the talent pipeline in this region, how they were approaching hiring, and what they saw as needs and opportunities . There were a...
- — Greg Hislop 2017-12-29 16:53:59
- 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
