@osi Did you inform these 50 maintainers of how you refuse to publish the unredracted 2025 election results? That hundreds of #FOSS hackers have signed a petition for you to do so, including several foundational organizations -- @gnome @debian? https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025 #OSI #OpenSource #OpenSourceInitiative
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@mikemcquaid Can you help putting pressure on the @osi to publish the unredracted 2025 election results that the #OSI have refused to publish despite calls from the #FLOSS #FOSS #OSS community? https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025 the #OpenSourceInitiative has published the results since the start, but this year they refuse to be transparent in their election process. @downey @richardfontana @bkuhn
Petition to #OpenSourceInitiative to publish 2025 Board #election results.
[...] We believe that by removing candidates and votes after voting concluded, #OSI has damaged its credibility. [...]
La #petition est ici : https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025
A signé !
Il faut d'abord faire une bifurcation (fork), modifier la source bifurquée et ensuite faire une demande d'ajout (pull request).
C'était le 1er pull request de ma life :)
Petition to #OpenSourceInitiative to publish 2025 Board #election results.
We, the undersigned, petition the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to release the complete, unaltered results of its 2025 Board of Directors elections. We believe that by removing candidates and votes after voting concluded, OSI has damaged its credibility. We call for transparency as a first step toward repairing OSI's integrity and reputation.
Vous trouverez cette pétition ici : https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025
Ah yes, the brave keyboard warriors are at it again, demanding the Open Source Initiative release its 2025 election results for all to see. 🙄 Because clearly, the fate of human civilization hinges on the #transparency of a niche tech board election. 🔍 Spoiler alert: 98% of the population still doesn't know what a pull request is. 😂
https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025#readme #OpenSourceInitiative #KeyboardWarriors #TechElection #PullRequest #HackerNews #ngated
Want to see more #transparency from the #OpenSourceInitiative, especially with regard to their recent #election? Sign the #petition asking them to release the full, unaltered election results:
#Microsoft is attacking the Free Software Foundation mainly by trying to smear Stallman.
https://techrights.org/n/2024/11/22/Microsofters_Try_to_Defund_the_Free_Software_Foundation_by_Atta.shtml
#TechRights
While the article lists the Free Software Foundation Europe (#FSFE) as a Microsoft front group, people should be aware of other groups are also fronts for #BigTech, like the #LinuxFoundation and the #OpenSourceInitiative (#OSI).
KI-Definition: Vorwürfe gegen die #OpenSourceInitiative | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/KI-Definition-Vorwuerfe-gegen-die-Open-Source-Initiative-10004145.html #OpenSource #OSI #ArtificialIntelligence
L’IA Open Source existe-t-elle vraiment ? https://framablog.org/2024/10/31/lia-open-source-existe-t-elle-vraiment/ #IntelligenceArtificielle #Intelligencearticielle #opensourceinitiative #Enjeuxdunumérique #opensource #Traduction #Framalang
They posit you can still modify (tune) the distributed models without the training source. You can also modify a binary executable without its source code. Frankly that's unacceptable if we actually care about the human beings using the software.
A key pillar of freedom as it relates to software is reproducibility. The ability to build a tool from scratch, in your own environment, with your own parameters, is absolutely indispensable to both learning how the tool works and changing the tool to better serve your needs, especially if your needs fall on the outskirts of the bell curve.
There's also the issue of auditability. If you can't run the full build process yourself, producing your own results from scratch in a trusted environment to compare with what's distributed, it becomes exponentially harder to verify any claims about how a tool supposedly works.
Without the training data, this all becomes impossible for AI models. The OSI knows this. They're choosing to ignore it for the sake of expediency for the companies paying their bills, who want to claim "open" because it sounds good while actually hiding the (largely stolen and fraudulently or non-consentually acquired) source material of their current models.
Do we want a new definition of "open source" that actively thwarts analysis and tinkering, two fundamental requirements of software that respects human beings today? Reject this nonsense.
#OpenSource #OpenSourceAI #OSI #OpenSourceInitiative #FreeSoftware #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI
As the OSI prepares to make official its "open source AI" definition with a glaring lack of requirement that the actual source (training data) is made available, it's worth noting that their work is funded by google, meta, microsoft, salesforce, etc. What does open source even mean here if the literal source of the model isn't open? These companies are invested in making you think they're on your side while they boil the oceans to avoid paying human beings for labor.
The idea behind open source, as it grew out of the free software movement, has always been to water down software freedoms, to create something more palatable to corporate interests that *sounds* good but means very little. This continues that work for the current "gen AI" bubble. It's time to ditch open source as an ideal, and the OSI especially.
https://opensource.org/ai/drafts/the-open-source-ai-definition-1-0-rc2
#OpenSource #OpenSourceAI #OSI #OpenSourceInitiative #FreeSoftware #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI
#OpenSourceInitiative tries to define #OpenSource #AI
The issue is that there's no accepted way to determine whether or not an AI system is open source, despite the fact that there are already many #machinelearning models offered under open source licenses.
"I think the fundamental problem with AI is that its output is inherently plagiarism," #BrucePerens explained "#LLM are trained from websites, and open source software, without regard for their copyright."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/16/open_source_initiative_ai/
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As I rely on #OpenSource so much for so many things I do, this #GivingTuesday I am supporting:
@GIMP (#GIMP)
@gnome (#GNOME)
@keepassxc (#KeePassXC)
@libreoffice (#LibreOffice)(#OpenSourceInitiative)
@conservancy (#SFConservancy)
@thunderbird (#Thunderbird)
@UbuntuWeeklyNews (#Ubuntu)
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Le votazioni per eleggere il board di #OpenSourceInitiative si sono chiuse e i risultati sono stati ufficializzati. Congratulazioni ai consiglieri eletti: Pamela Chestek, Carlo Piana, Josh Berkus e Amanda Brock.
https://opensource.org/node/1219
Jegliche Projekte mit einer von der OSI zugelassenen Lizenz können sich um die Guthabenpunkte für ausgewählte Azure-Dienste bewerben.
Microsoft spendet Azure Credits an Open-Source-Projekte
Microsoft spendet Azure Credits an Open-Source-Projekte
Open Source Initiative names first Executive Director | Open Source Initiative
https://opensource.org/news/osi-executive-director #maffulli #osi #opensourceinitiative
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