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Building a bridge over hungry monsters for open source sustainability

Launching next week: Open Source Wishlist Every open source security incident teaches us something new; but more often than not we are reminded of past lessons. Projects and maintainers need help, succession plans, modern security practices, trusted governance as well as moderation and funding strategies. Minimally. Despite years of experiments

New CHAOSS AI Alignment Working Group

I'm really interested in understanding how the work of CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software) can be applied to the efforts around AI alignment/safety. AI alignment is the effort to design Artificial Intelligence systems so their goals, behaviors, and decisions are consistent with human values

What do YOU mean by open source AI?

How OSPOs can drive alignment around meaning for openness and AI Ana Jiménez Santamaría’s blog post How Open Source Program Offices Make OSS and AI Work did a great job of speaking to to the ways in which OSPOs can help organizations navigate AI risks. I also believe OSPOs

Can coding assistants make a TPMs life easier? 9 Hours of Misery and Hope

The Technical Program Manager role require a strong mix of business skills including: business analyst, software development, project and people managers. We hold a lot together, but also depend on engineers and designers to prototype and build solutions. This means we're often waiting for the time of those

Helping Employees Build the Case for Open Source Contribution

The career benefits of open source contribution are well-established. The business value for companies is also well known. However, I have noticed a significant challenge over the years: employee at many technical companies (even those with brand identity tied to open technologies) struggle to secure leadership approval for their time

The best time to create a moderation plan is before launching your OSS project. The second best time is now.

Moderation is the heart of open source capability - the success of which drives critical outcomes for security, sustainability and innovation. The lack of which can cause significant harm to projects and people.

Alignment with who? How AI safety can build on open source scaffolding

This past week, I listened to a very interesting (and at times scary) podcast interview with Daniel Kokotajlo, an AI safety researcher and former Open AI employee. I was very interested to learn about 'alignment' . Alignment in AI, is the term used to describe the challenging of ensuring

Open collaboration strategy (now with AI prompts)

Back when the wonderful Carol Smith and I were part of Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), we built this simple resource to help those new to open collaboration, or revisiting their approaches - think creatively, realistically, and tactically about their goals. Each of the six steps came

Can Model Context Protocol (MCP) help 'open' win?

Right now, many of us are suspicious of AI as something being done to us rather than for us. Corporate-driven efforts to advance capabilities feel more in service of stock prices than uplifting and empowering users' lives. This lack of control and user influence is why the open source

What I've learned so far - Hugging Face MCP Course (Module 1)

It’s a buffet out there! If you want to learn about open source + AI, there’s no shortage of ways to start. I began with Hugging Face, the epicenter of machine learning developer communities. I noticed on LinkedIn that they were running an online course to teach folks about

Just starting this thing

This is Emma's notes. 'Notes'. I want to share some ideas, and what I am learning so others can maybe benefit. I want to get back to working in the open more, and this is a first step. Social media has changed so much that, part

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