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Match challenge extended by $40,012 and going until February 5th
Thanks to two amazing anonymous donors, our match has been upped by $40,012 to raise the total to $251,939! We have already achieved our original match challenge of $211,927, already the largest...
- 2026-01-14 22:21:52
U-Boot has joined Software Freedom Conservancy
We're so happy to announce that Das U-Boot, the Universal Bootloader, will be joining SFC! U-Boot is the most popular generic-purpose bootload...
- 2025-12-29 16:15:21
Carrying Open Collaboration into the Year Ahead
- Members Newsletter – January 2026 In this month’s newsletter, we share 2025’s most sought after licenses; reflect on the work still ahead for OSAID; news from the policy team; and look-backs on the...
- — Nick Vidal 2026-01-14 11:52:56
Open Policy Alliance Welcomes the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund as New Member
- The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is pleased to welcome the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) to the Open Policy Alliance. OSTIF is a nonprofit dedicated to securing Open Source apps.
- — Katie Steen-James 2026-01-08 15:00:00
- 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
