Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon - December, 3 2025 | Notion
🗓️ Luma event description

Reframing “Open Source AI” with Meredith Whittaker: AI Impact Summit 2026
Something Big Happened in 1998
It is reasonable to accept that OSI founded Open Source with the Open Source Definition.

Open source is the electric vehicle of digital policy
Open source is very popular these days, not least due to the open-source strategy that the European Commission announced last week as part of the tech sovereignty package. While there is a lot to criticise about that strategy (exaggerated goals, misleading numbers etc), the one thing I would like to

Open Source is Broken
The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns...

Open Source Explained — Open Indie
Musings on the concept of ‘open source’, in the broadest possible definition of the term. Also an invitation to become a participant in ...

The Arguments Against Open Source AI are Very Bad | Tom Bedor's Blog
The release of Kimi K3 has opened a fresh round of angst and confused discourse. There's a loud cohort of journalists, business leaders, and politicians arguing that open source AI is a dangerous threat. OpenAI's Dean Ball:

Open Source Initiative
The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.

“Policy Without Tools Is Just Poetry” - AT Protocol
Juliet Shen from ROOST joins the show to talk through the Coop 1.0 release, what open-source trust and safety unlocks for new builders, and where AI actually belongs in moderation


A brief 🧵 for all outside the #atproto bubble on why, from a digital industrial policy perspective, this step is deeply bewildering. There's @eurosky.social – open source, non-profit, fully aligned with the EU's open source strategy. It provides all that W has, & more. And yet, the Commission...
European Commission
We have now joined W, a new European social media network. We’re present on 15+ platforms, and are especially happy to join one based in Europe and with the ambition to foster open and safer online conversations. Keep the conversation going - whether from W, Bluesky or other compatible apps.
References shared during the December 2025 Scenius panel "Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon" luma.com/z9ivf64k?tk=EdRp1q
The just-announced Open Source Endowment is now on Bluesky, and we're open to your ideas on how to identify critical OSS projects 🙏
Open Source Endowment
We heard the Bluesky community cares about Open Source, so we showed up 👋 Our endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers is already at $729k, and we're developing a model for distributing our first funding round. Have ideas on how to identify critical OSS projects? We're listening.
“Open, Collaborative and Participative Science: Rethinking the Legitimacy of Knowledge, the Policies and the Future of Science.” - looks like an interesting track during the Eu-SPRI Forum Annual Conference 2026 (10–12 June 2026, Valencia) euspri2026.webs.upv.es

A Research Lab for Open Source ✸ Software Stewardship Lab
An equitable company - Roomy

Ideas on a Financially Sustainable Atproto | Alex | Offprint

Software Stewardship Lab

Fund Your Internet
Project Funding (by Bee 🐝) — Semble
Alex Imas on Twitter / X

What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade

Pax Machina — Institutions in a World with Powerful AI

Science: A New Golden Age
How AI Agents are transforming scientific discovery

We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age
Federating friendly spaces - Roomy
modular research multi-agent slack-like environment demo

Buzz! 🐝

Genspace
On open-science research labs on discord, and getting more people.