Stefano Maffulli

Following an explosion of growth in open collaboration in solving the world’s most urgent problems related to the 2020 global Covid-19 pandemic, open source software moved from mainstream to the world's main stage. In 2022 the United Nation’s Digital Public Goods (DPG) Alliance began formally certifying open source software as DPG; the European Union wrote open source into their road map; both the EU and the US began crafting Cybersecurity legislation in support of secure software - not targeting OSS as a specific concern but rather protecting and investing in it as critical to its own and its citizens’ interest. OSI has recognized these important seachanges in the environment, including unprecedented interest in open source in public arenas. Stefano Maffulli’s briefing will provide an overview of important trends in Open Source Software in public policy, philanthropy and research and talk about a new initiative at OSI designed to bring open voices to the discussion.

Join this in-promptu meeting to share your thoughts on what it means for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning systems to be "open". The Open Source Initiative will host this lunch break to hear from the FOSSY participants what they think should be the shared set of principles that can recreate the permissionless, pragmatic and simplified collaboration for AI practitioners, similar to what the Open Source Definition has done.

In San Francisco, the fire department offers free training to residents in the hopes that they won’t become victims the next time an earthquake hits. Residents of San Francisco, California are advised to keep a map in their emergency kit. What kind of map? People who take the fire department training class (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team - NERT) learn to spot potable water hydrants, gas meters, soft story buildings, police call boxes, chemical hazard warnings posted outside gas stations, car repair shops and construction sites. Until now, however, there are no maps with these features marked. This session will talk about the journey to creating these emergency maps with my local NERT using OpenStreetMap. It will include best practices and lessons learned that can make this project useful for citizen mappers everywhere.