📣 Matrix community event for Sweden
The Matrix Conference brings developers and users together to discuss Matrix, encrypted communication, deployments, and ecosystem projects.
📍 Malmö, Sweden + Online
📆 October 20–23, 2026
🌐 conference.matrix.org/?ref=i…
This is the last week to have your say! We invite the Open Source community to participate in the OSI Governance Survey and help inform the future of OSI’s governance: opensource.org/osi-governanc…
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"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)..."
On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old student sent a message to a Usenet newsgroup. He thought he was just building something fun for himself.
35 years later, that "hobby" is the backbone of global technology:
🚀 Powering helicopters in space with NASA
☁️ Running the global cloud and 100% of the world’s supercomputers
📱 Connecting billions of people
🎮 Redefining the future of handheld gaming
What started as one student's side project became the greatest collaborative technology movement in history. Thank you to every maintainer, contributor, and advocate who made it possible.
Happy 35th Birthday, Linux. Here’s to the power of open source and the next 35 years of building together.
learnlinux.ie/content/linus-…#Linux35
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Leaders from across the open source ecosystem will gather in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on September 22 and 23, 2026 for the fourth Open Source Congress (OSC), followed by the companion Stakeholder Day.
opensourcecongress.org/
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Sad to see the @nytimes confuse open-source (fully transparent) with open-weight models (less transparent; no access eg to training data).
The new Meta model is open-weight but not open-source. NYT got it wrong.
It is time for both the media and the public to learn this distinction.
cc @OpenSourceOrg
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For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…
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Exciting news from UN Open Source Week! 🌐 The @OpenSourceOrg has announced the Open Source AI Fellowship to build consensus and policy around what it means for AI to be truly Open Source.
As a launch sponsor, (cont) spklr.io/l/6017EO81D
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Open source is becoming central to how the AI stack is built and governed.
@ashimmy speaks with Duane O'Brien, Executive Director of the @OpenSourceOrg, about OSI’s role in defining open source since 1998 and why that work now extends into AI. The conversation covers OSI-approved licenses, the Open Source AI Definition, policy, education, and why AI systems require new thinking around openness.
▶️ Watch the full discussion: buff.ly/JFmTQaY#OpenSource#AI#OSI#AIGovernance#TechstrongTV
The OSI is pleased to support the inaugural Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026, taking place on 26–27 October 2026 at the historic University of Barcelona. The CFPs is now open through 5 July 2026. opensource.org/blog/open-tec…
Philippe Ombredanne and Jordan Maris will facilitate a CRA compliance workshop at the Open Source Founders Summit on May 18, covering what the EU Cyber Resilience Act means in practice for Open Source businesses. 05f5.com/schedule/2026/cra-c…
OSI ED Duane O'Brien: I expect my listening tour will continue for a little while as I make the rounds to meet as many of our stakeholders as I can. If you’ve got something to say, grab a slot in my office hours. I’d love to hear from you. opensource.org/blog/listenin…