Three takeaways from Data + AI Summit
I came back from connecting with the Open Source community at the Data + AI Summit in San Francisco with several big takeaways. I share them here…
Events
Events and recaps.
Diving in to Open Source supply chain; connecting and collaborating with communities
After one month at OSI, I’ve started forming a full picture of supply chain compliance and security ecosystem.
OSI to hold License Clinic
OSI is pleased to announce our 2023 Open Source Initiative License Clinic, an in-person event to be held April 4th in Washington D.C. This one day workshop will cover advanced…
We are headed to All Things Open 2022
You can find the OSI in Downtown Raleigh, North Carolina October 31st through November 2nd for the All Things Open (ATO) 2022 conference. ATO is celebrating 10 years this year. This…
Fireside chat with Mike Linksvayer
Mike Linksvayer, head of developer policy at GitHub in a conversation with Open Source Initiative’s executive director Stefano Maffulli talking about AI.
Episode 5: Why Debian won’t distribute AI models any time soon
In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative, and Mo Zhou, AI research expert and Debian developer, examine the key components of artificial intelligence systems and how those components by their very nature complicate the idea of AI software that is truly open source.
OSI Executive Director to speak at Open Source Summit Europe
We are slowly, but surely starting to return to in person events. Our next stop is Dublin for Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit Europe, from September 13th to the 16th….
Episode 4: Building creative restrictions to curb AI abuse
In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative, and David Gray Widder, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, discuss David’s research and findings on ethics in artificial intelligence and, in particular, the challenges software engineers face related to trust and ethics in AI.
Episode 3: When hackers take on AI: Sci-fi – or the future?
In 2020 during the height of the pandemic, Connor Leahy, co-founder of EleutherAI and CEO at Conjecture, and other bored, self-described hackers and AI enthusiasts were chatting on Discord about…
Episode 2: Solving for AI’s black box problem
In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative, and Alek Tarkowski, strategy director of Open Future Foundation, examine ways that “real life” is being impacted by automated decision making and artificial intelligence.
Episode 1: Copyright, Selfie Monkeys and the Hand of God
In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative explores copyrights in the context of software and data with OSI board member Pamela Chestek.
Welcome to Deep Dive AI
With AI systems being so complex, concepts like “program” or “source code” in the Open Source Definition are challenged in new and surprising ways.