From deb.bryant at opensource.org Tue Nov 1 12:00:00 2022 From: deb.bryant at opensource.org (Deb Bryant) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 08:00:00 -0400 Subject: [PublicPolicy] November 2022 Public Policy Updates Message-ID: Mailman News Public Policy Oct 2022 Hello all and welcome to November 2022. I wanted to start by saying hello to this group in my first post to the list since I?ve taken on the role of US policy director for OSI. You can read about my joining OSI in my post on OpenSource.org in September. I am grateful to OSI for seeing policy work increasingly critical for the open source ecosystem and its stakeholders. The work in the US complements the long established work on policy and international standards in Europe by colleague Simon Phipps. https://blog.opensource.org/rising-to-answer-the-call-sound-public-policy-for-open-source-questions/ So then, what?s new? OSI?s own sustainability director Besty Waliszewski is attending the All Things Open conference in Raleigh North Carolina this week. It gave us pause for organizing our thoughts on our priorities for her to share with attendees, so I thought I?d send them along to this group as well as we continue to formalize OSI?s policy program. Current Focus Europe - The collision between open standards and open source related to standard-essential patents, - The sustainability of open source software in European government and especially the lack of funding for maintenance of critical components despite investment in bug-finding, and - The challenges of ensuring public funds result in public code in an environment where tendered outsourcing is the norm. - The direct and accidental effects on open source of the current wave of legislative proposals including DMA and DSA. United States - Implications for open source projects and community downstream of new executive orders and proposed legislation on supply chain security. - Watching Senate Bill 4913 with interest - Participating in conversations regarding supply chain security and implications for the way open source software is developed - Getting non-profit, public benefit organizations a seat at the table in policy development as an underrepresented component of the full open source ecosystem, and - Emerging interest in AI/ML policy International Communities - OSI is bringing together a network of policy practitioners for information and resource sharing to address common challenges. The Public Policy list is an important element of that intent, as is collaboration with public benefit entities with common interest in the health of open source. Events: The policy team is beginning to venture out to a handful of in-person events. Here?s where you may find us in November: - Europe Policy and Global Standards - Simon Phipps - simon.phipps at opensource.org - Open Source Experience - Paris - SFSCon - Bolzano, Italy - ETSI General Assembly - France - US Policy- Deborah Bryant deb.bryant at opensource.org - Linux Foundation Member Summit - California - Executive Director - Stefano Maffulli stefano at opensource.org - Linux Foundation Member Summit - California Coming up: Plans are underway for a legal event in March in Washington D.C. If you?re local to the area, please reach out to Deb for information as plans unfold. references A Europe fit for the digital age https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age_en Digital Services Act https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-services-act-ensuring-safe-and-accountable-online-environment_en Executive Order 14028 - Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/05/17/2021-10460/improving-the-nations-cybersecurity US Senate Bill 4913 - Securing Open Source Software Act 2022 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4913/text Cheers, Deb Bryant For the Policy Team -- Deborah Bryant US Policy Director Board Member Emeritus Open Source Initiative -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: