Coming back to the 2025 OSI roadmap ...

" We’ve heard the concerns raised by different stakeholders around the Open Source AI Definition v1.0

...

By the end of 2025, we’ll provide clear, actionable recommendations for the OSI board to develop an updated version of the Open Source AI Definition. You can rest assured that we are working diligently to keep the Open Source relevant."

#StefanoMaffulli, 2025

https://opensource.org/blog/your-support-our-focus-the-osis-2025-roadmap-to-a-stronger-open-source-ecosystem

WTF is this supposed to mean?

#OSI#OpenSource#AI#MOLE#OSAID

"The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has released its strategic roadmap for 2025, outlining critical initiatives designed to reinforce its role as a central authority in the Open Source ecosystem."

#StefanoMaffulli, 2025

https://opensource.org/blog/your-support-our-focus-the-osis-2025-roadmap-to-a-stronger-open-source-ecosystem

This one sentence tells you everything you need to know about what's going wrong with the #OSI.

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@osi

Re: a #Mastodon poll, @cwebber wrote:
> “Can't change a poll in progress, that would be election tampering!”

Given that #OpenSource Initiative endorses election tampering, surely it's ok in #FOSS for all purposes — #OSAID related or not.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014603/
https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025

BTW, I'm amazed #OSI tampered w/ an election when the person w/ the longest political memory in FOSS was a candidate. I am — if nothing else — the most persistent person in #FreeSoftware. ☺

Cc: @richardfontana

I wrote a short blog post on how to identify timestamps on LinkedIn in digital investigations https://maynier.eu/blog/2025/08/02/timestamps-and-linkedin/ #OSI #OSINT

I wrote a short blog post on how to identify timestamps on LinkedIn in digital investigations https://maynier.eu/blog/2025/08/02/timestamps-and-linkedin/ #OSI #OSINT

ETHZ and EPFL announced the release of a Large Language Model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure: Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in 8B and 70B parameters configurations, using open-source training data, respecting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition, and natively fluent in over 1000 languages. Quoting: "The model will be fully open: source code and weights will be publicly available, and the training data will be transparent and reproducible".

I don't know how good it's going to be, but if true for me this is the real definition of "open-source" in AI (not the ridiculous, corporate-promiscuous definition by the Open Source Initiative).

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html

#AI#LLM#ETH#EPFL #switzerland #eu #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #opensource #osi #openwashing #privacy #gdpr

ETHZ and EPFL announced the release of a Large Language Model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure: Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in 8B and 70B parameters configurations, using open-source training data, respecting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition, and natively fluent in over 1000 languages. Quoting: "The model will be fully open: source code and weights will be publicly available, and the training data will be transparent and reproducible".

I don't know how good it's going to be, but if true for me this is the real definition of "open-source" in AI (not the ridiculous, corporate-promiscuous definition by the Open Source Initiative).

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html

#AI#LLM#ETH#EPFL #switzerland #eu #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #opensource #osi #openwashing #privacy #gdpr