- XPOST: Spurring New Digital Public Goods
Originally published on 27 September 2022 via unicef.org. This year, the UNICEF Venture Fund celebrates five graduating companies from a recent investment round. For the first time, many of these companies are exiting from the Venture Fund having …
- 2020/2021 in Open Source at UNICEF Innovation Fund
Open Source is a means to collaborate and solve common problems; during the COVID-19 pandemic, open data and tools proved useful in quickly tailoring and deploying life-saving services. How has the UNICEF Innovation Fund kept up with latest Open …
- Introducing UNICEF Open Source Mentorship
This post was co-published on the UNICEF Innovation Fund blog. 2020 saw the launch of a formalized Open Source Mentorship programme for the UNICEF Innovation Fund, built up on two years of work from RIT LibreCorps expertise and consulting. The Open …
- What Is Freedom?
When I first saw the letter asking for Richard Stallman and the FSF Board of Directors resignations with merely five signatures, I knew I had to sign. Not because I knew it would be the popular thing to do. But because it was what was true in my …
- Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL-1.0): My First License Review
The bookmark was creeping on my browser’s toolbar for months. “Cryptographic Autonomy License” CAL-1.0 on the Open Source Initiative webpage. But today, I decided it was time to do my first amateur license review. This is a fun exercise (for me). …
- Why FOSS Is Still Not on Activist Agendas
On December 13th, 2006, author Bruce Byfield reflected on why he thought Free and Open Source Software (F.O.S.S.) was not on activist agendas. My interpretation of his views are that a knowledge barrier about technology makes FOSS less accessible, …
- Sustain OSS 2018: Quick Rewind
This year, I attended the second edition of the Sustain Open Source Summit (a.k.a. Sustain OSS) on October 25th, 2018 in London. Sustain OSS is a one-day discussion on various topics about sustainability in open source ecosystems. It’s also a …
- Inside Facebook's Open Source Program at RIT
Originally published on Opensource.com. Open source becomes more common every year, where it appears at government municipalities to universities. More companies turn to open source software too. However, some companies try to take it a step further, …
- What I Discovered in Tirana, Albania
The past few months have brought many changes for me. I traveled throughout Europe to experience some of the open source conferences and communities across the continent. Along the way, I met incredible people with powerful stories about their own …
- Students Meet Fedora at Linux Weekend 2017
This article was originally published on the Fedora Magazine. Open source projects are built online and a lot of their community members are placed all over the world. Even though projects have people from around the world, this doesn’t stop …