A World-wide Open Source Summit: Build your local community, while engaging the global community.

The State of the Source Summit invites open source communities of practice from around the world to organize and contribute to a global conversation on the current state of open source software: non-technical issues that foster development and community, the licenses that enable collaboration, the practices that promote contribution, and the issues confronting cooperation.

State of the Source is an innovative program that follows the sun around the globe with regional projects, and communities in every timezone creating and delivering content relative to local open source issues and interests, while engaging with an international audience of peers.

Conference Goals

• Share the current state of open source licenses and their value
• Identify current issues affecting open source software through the lenses of developers, companies, and projects
• Conceptualizing what the future may hold for open source

Track The Open Source Initiative's mission is to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source software and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community. The State of the Source serves the OSI's mission and our community, with a focus on understanding, implementing, and improving the state of open source software. Below you will find four tracks, themes that should drive each track's sessions, and even a few examples of topics that might help you develop your presentation.

• Open Source Licenses and the OSI
• Projects & People
• Principles, Policy, & Practices
• “Hot Topics”

Date and Time

• September 9, 2020 - September 11, 2020
• Location: Earth (Online)
• Online Room Access will be shared with registered participants

Organizers 

• State of Source is an event of Open Source Initiative.
• Chairperson: Hong Phuc Dang 
• Event coordinators: Jenn Cummings and Kathy Azevedo