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Returning to the University of British Columbia, FOSSY 2027 will be August 5-8th next year! The campus was enjoyed by all attendees and allowed us to con...
- 2026-08-31 15:35:43
It's that time again... for the triennial DMCA exemptions process! Because of the overreaching restraints the DMCA places on our digital autonomy, the DMCA permits the public to petition...
- 2026-08-27 16:04:02
Open Enables a Lot: The OSI at UNGA81
- At UNGA81, OSI joined conversations on Open Source AI, digital sovereignty, and digital public infrastructure. Open by itself does very little but enables a lot.
- — Nick Vidal 2026-10-08 11:24:31
Linux’s 35th Anniversary and the Open Frontier
- Members Newsletter – September 2026: Open Source is what it is because of the people who led us here, and keep us here. We all joined the community for different reasons, but many of us stayed beca...
- — Nick Vidal 2026-09-16 15:36:46
TOS Holds a Sprint to Develop FOSS Courses
- A team of faculty involved with TeachingOpenSource (TOS) are working on four Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) courses that will be available under a Creative Commons license.
- — Greg Hislop 2018-06-29 17:05:26
Some Tech Firm Perspectives on Hiring
- I recently attended a meeting with local tech companies to discuss the talent pipeline in this region, how they were approaching hiring, and what they saw as needs and opportunities . There were a...
- — Greg Hislop 2017-12-29 16:53:59
- 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
