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Author Archives: Nick Vidal
ClearlyDefined: recapping a year of progress and sharing a vision for 2024
At the beginning of 2023, I started as a community manager for ClearlyDefined, with the goals of creating an open governance model for the project and helping the OSI to…
2023 in review: many reasons to celebrate
Wrapping up a busy one for the Open Source Initiative as we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Open Source while looking towards present and future challenges and opportunities.
The most popular licenses for each language in 2023
The 2023 report of the licenses in use by the biggest package managers highlights the need to educate developers on the importance of licensing information. While many developers know that…
Nerdearla reflects on openness and inclusivity
Reflections on Nerdearla 2023 in Buenos Aires, organized by sysarmy, including the presentation of “25 Years of Open Source.”
Three highlights from Open Source Summit Europe 2023
Read a recap of the three key efforts of the OSI addressed at the Open Source Summit Europe 2023.
Recap of Hacker Summer Camp
This past week I had the opportunity to attend four exciting conferences in Las Vegas that are part of the “Hacker Summer Camp”, all very different from each other, but all sharing the same passion for bringing people together to collaborate: the Diana Initiative, Ai4, Black Hat, and DEFCON.
Celebrating 25 years of Open Source at Campus Party
OSI has been celebrating 25 years of Open Source at tech conferences around the world.
The AI renaissance and why open innovation matters
In our previous article, we highlighted various advancements that have been made by the Open Source community around LLMs in recent months. This second part will focus on various AI…
Three takeaways from Data + AI Summit
I came back from connecting with the Open Source community at the Data + AI Summit in San Francisco with several big takeaways. I share them here…
The AI renaissance and why Open Source matters
Sharing knowledge and sharing code has always been a key driver for innovation in Artificial Intelligence. Researchers have gathered together since AI was established as a field to develop and advance novel techniques, from Natural Language Processing to Artificial Neural Networks, from Machine Learning to Deep Learning.
Webinar: ClearlyDefined proceeding towards a clear governance structure
The ClearlyDefined project was invited to give an update as part of the OpenChain webinar series. I had the opportunity to share with this global community the project’s mission: to create a global database of licensing metadata for every Open Source software component ever published.