• The OSI has killed its Open Source community with censorship

    The Open Source Initiative (OSI), self-declared “steward” of Open Source, has finally succeeded in killing its community dead with heavy-handed censorship, which is a weird thing for an organisation to do that’s “actively involved in Open Source community-building”. From moderating, closing, and forking posts to outright banning members, it seems no tool of repression is…

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  • Defining Mandatory Components for AI Systems Seeking Digital Public Good (DPG) Recognition

    I have made this submission to the community discussion on the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA)‘s Proposal: Defining Mandatory Components for AI Systems Seeking Digital Public Good (DPG) Recognition

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  • Open-Source Licensing for AI presentation at DevFest 2024

    Earlier this month Wes Turner, a Senior Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, had A Quick Look at the New Open Source AI Definition from the OSI at DevFest 2024, a Google Developer Group (GDG) conference focused this year on Responsible AI. As you can see, like many before him (including myself) he was discombobulated by…

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