From G7’s Vision on AI Openness to EU’s Tech Sovereignty Package

Members Newsletter – June 2026

Dear OSI community,

“What do you think the first three months on the job will look like?”

If you had asked me this question in April, I might have listed a hundred observations about community meetings, operations, fundraising, messaging, or strategy. Nowhere in that list would I have said “I expect to be invited to address the G7 Digital and Technology Ministers.” But thanks to the excellent work of our policy staff, that’s exactly what happened. If you look at the G7’s Vision on AI Openness or the European Union’s Tech Sovereignty Package, you can see where the OSI has been working to advocate for mindful inclusion of Open Source principles.

The policy landscape continues to evolve and mature with regards to Open Source – funding it, securing it, legislating it. I’m incredibly proud of our policy team and their ability to stay on top of these changes. When legislators propose new policies that impact the Open Source ecosystem, it is vital that we help them understand the benefits of Open Source, how it works, and the freedoms, trust, and innovation that it enables, so they produce policies and legislation that support and protect Open Source for all of us.

This year’s UN Open Source Week runs from June 22-26. It’s a week packed with talks, workshops, meetings, and ancillary events of all kinds. I will be attending the event with support from some of our staff and board members, and we’re excited to connect with community members from around the world. If you’re in town for the event, and you want to try and set up a meeting with myself or OSI staff, fill out a meeting request form. We can’t promise we’ll be able to take every meeting, but we’ll do our best to meet as many folks as we can. If you’re not going to be in town for the event, you can always grab a slot in my office hours.

Warm regards,

Duane O’Brien

Executive Director, OSI

News from the OSI

OSI welcomes the European Union’s “Tech Sovereignty” package

The European Union (EU) published its “Tech Sovereignty” package, with a vision that puts Open Source at the heart of the EU’s digital sovereignty ambitions, while addressing many concerns and requests of Open Source communities.

Open Source Initiative Helps G7 Deliver Vision On AI Openness

On May 29, 2026 in Paris, G7 Digital and Technology ministers approved a “Vision on AI openness opportunities and shared language”. The vision, which sets out terminology around AI openness, is the result of a three-month partnership between the OSI and the G7.

Open Source Organizations Weigh in on Age Attestation

The Open Source Initiative (OSI), Apereo Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), FreeBSD Foundation, and Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) issued the following statement on age attestation requirements for operating systems.

OSI in the news

Le G7 s’engage pour un numérique responsable : quatre priorités adoptées sous présidence française (French government)
G7 Digital and Technology Ministerial Declaration (UK government)

Video recordings

Building Resilience: The Next Decade of Open Source (Berlin Buzzwords, featuring Ruth Suehle)
Why age assurance laws matter for developers (GitHub, featuring Katie Steen-James)
Beyond SBOMs: Making License Data Actionable With ClearlyDefined (Open Source Summit NA, featuring Jamie Magee)

Other news

News from OSI affiliates and community

C++ Community: The Story of C++: The World’s Most Consequential Programming Language (Cult Repo)
Creative Commons: Keeping the Internet Human: 25 Years of Choosing to Share
Eclipse Foundation: Frontier AI and the next phase of software vulnerability defence
FreeBSD: New design for the FreeBSD website
Free Software Foundation: RAIL: Nonfree and unethical
Free Software Foundation Europe: EU Tech Sovereignty: A milestone for Public Code? Now implementation is key
KDE: Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
Linux Foundation: Linux Foundation Releases OpenMDW-1.1; NVIDIA Adopts OpenMDW for Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, Ising and Nemotron, AI Model Families
Linux Foundation: 2026 State of Tech Talent Europe Report
OpenForum Europe: The Path Towards Open Strategic Autonomy: OFE Welcomes the European Commission’s Tech Sovereignty Package
Open Future: A Blind Spot at the Heart of EU Copyright and AI Policymaking?
Open Knowledge Foundation: Towards a Sustainable Data Commons Ecosystem
OpenSSF: Taking Stock of the State of European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Compliance: An Urgent Wake-up Call for the Open Source Ecosystem
OpenSSF: Aligning on Machine-Readable Signals as the Foundation for Due Diligence
Python Software Foundation: PSF Strategic Plan 2026 Draft: Open for Community Feedback
The Document Foundation: Announcing the new LibreOffice website!
WordPress Foundation: What Happened at WordCamp Europe 2026

News from community members

How the EU’s Tech Sovereignty Package Finally Puts Open Source to the Test (Tech Policy Press – Nicholas Gates, Aimilia Givropoulou, Jaakko Karhu)
Open Source and the Iceberg Theory (ACM Queue – Alyssa Wright, Stephen Augustus)
Co-developing public tools at the European level: lessons learned from two years of collaboration between France, Germany, and the Netherlands (Open Source Observatory – Noemie Kemp)
The pressure (curl project – Daniel Stenberg)
OffOn: Relaunch of a welcoming open source community to learn through hands-on challenges, share knowledge, and build together.

Events

Upcoming events

UN Open Source Week (June 22–26 – New York City)

Check the top 50+ Open Source conferences of 2026 that the OSI is tracking, including events that intersect with AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and policy.

CFPs

IndiaFOSS (September 26-27 – Bengaluru)
Open Source Summit EU (October 7-9 – Prague)
SeaGL (October 23-24 – Seattle)
Open Technology Research Symposium (October 26-27 – Barcelona)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (November 9-12 – Salt Lake City)
SFSCON (November 13-14 – Bolzano)

Open Technology Research Symposium

The OSI is pleased to support the inaugural Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026, taking place on 26–27 October 2026 at the historic University of Barcelona. The Call for Proposals is now open through 5 July 2026.

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