Members Newsletter – July 2026
Dear OSI community,
It’s been a busy month.
Two weeks ago, I was joined by several staff and board members at UN Open Source Week. It’s remarkable to think about how this event has evolved to become one of the must-attend Open Source events on the calendar. The UN held their first of these events as a one-day session in 2023, attended by about 60 people (or so I’ve heard – I wasn’t one of them). This year there were over 1400 people attending a full week of plenaries, workshops, discussions, and community-led side events, with an after-hours calendar packed with receptions, side-meetings, dinners, and happy hours. It seemed everyone was in town, and so everyone came to town.
At the invitation of Under-Secretary-General Amandeep Singh Gill, we were honored to host a private briefing on Open Source and Open Source AI. All 193 UN Member States were invited to the briefing, in which we shared historical context for the OSI, the Open Source Definition, and the Open Source AI Definition. The briefing served as a launch point for engaging more broadly with member states to understand their needs with regards to Open Source and Open Source AI, in an environment where the global policy landscape is rapidly evolving with regards to both.
