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Happenings in our Community

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

Updates to the TOS Page

The HFOSS team has been working to update the TeachingOpenSource.org page. We’ve added a news feed and we’re working on updating the learning materials. If you have learning materials t...
— Heidi Ellis 2024-05-30 15:56:49

Success in the DMCA triennial

SFC Announces Aspirational Statement on LLM-backed generative AI for Programming

In 2022, Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) convened a committee in the wake of Microsoft's GitHub Copilot announcement, to meet and begin considering the complex questions that a...

2024-10-25 19:20:40

ClearlyDefined v2.0 adds support for LicenseRefs

We are excited to announce the release of ClearlyDefined v2.0 which adds over 2,000 new well-known licenses it can identify. You can see the complete list of new non-SPDX licenses in ScanCode Licen...
— Lynette Rayle 2024-11-13 01:51:13

Members Newsletter – November 2024

After more than two years of collaboration, information gathering, global workshopping, testing, and an in-depth co-design process, we have an Open Source AI Definition.  The purpose of v...
— Nick Vidal 2024-11-06 19:00:00