L'OSI published last year a blog post titled « There are no “Degrees of Open”: why Openness is binary ».

With profound philosophical stance like « And freedom, by its very nature, is binary. ». You're free to work guys?

Article retracted. So there is degree of openness my dear OSD?

- Original link: https://opensource.org/blog/there-are-no-degrees-of-open-why-openness-is-binary
- Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20250415213125/https://opensource.org/blog/there-are-no-degrees-of-open-why-openness-is-binary

@osi so expert of open source with arguments based on nothing. @nick a last congrats for this masterpiece 😂 !

It was a good idea to remove it, this organization is a joke seriously 🫠

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Why and how to do education on open models and digital commons? One key project of this initiative is to build a knowledge base on open models: https://open-models.org

To facilitate the use of this tool the homepage and the introduction have just been updated, by @simon (myself, the author of this publication).

Open models education remains a very emerging topic which is generally conducted in silos: open science to researchers, open software to computer scientists, open education to teachers... Without providing a global picture of these phenomena, these various parties may even be unaware of each other's existence.

The knowledge base tries to answer this gap and connect openness movements. It can have multiple interests, at first because open models share some common laws and because these dynamics are complementary by articulating with each other!

An openly available resource to be able « to train people, a basis to create educational resources adapted to the multiplicity of contexts, a means to empower a network of trainers and specialists and a way to gather research in order to follow the state of the art in these areas. »

Education on open models can be a really broad topic targeting a variety of audiences, the intent with the base is at first to provide a general culture and then redirect to more specialized actors for advanced training.

A way to initiate people to these phenomena and then let them dive deeper depending on their needs.

Whether you're new to these movements or already well-versed in them but want to understand openness in other domains, this resource might be of interest to you. Or for any organization/university/school working around digital literacy!

To see the introduction: https://open-models.org/content/introduction.html

In this culture of contribution, feedback and suggestions for improvements are appreciated. Open models are hard to explain!

Author: @simon
Credit image: Boston Public Library, Unsplash

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🗓️ [Events] What kind of open models events are coming? A little selection.

Open Science:
- This 11 & 12 June, the Open Science Festival Limburg is organized by the @oscmaastricht(and Parkstad): https://www.openscience-maastricht.nl/12-june-2026/
- A call for contributions was just launched for the National Open Science Festival (🇳🇱) which be held the 14th October at @Delft University of Technology: https://opensciencefestival.nl/news/now-open-registration-and-call-for-contributions-national-open-science-festival-2026
- @turingway's book dash will take place this 18th & 19th May 2026. Inscriptions are over, but it's always possible to contribute to open resources: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7450866317068427264/

Open Software:
- The @OpenSourceFoundersSummit will take place this 18th and 19th May in Paris: https://05f5.com/
- Organized this 9 & 10 December, the @osxp_paris recently opened their call for papers/presentations: https://www.opensource-experience.com/en/
- This 30 & 31 May in Lyon (France), les Journées du logiciel libre (free software days): https://www.jdll.org/programme
- Still in Lyon, the 12th of May is organized the Rencontres Professionnelles du Logiciel Libre (Free Software Professional Meeting) by the @plossra_a: https://www.rpll.fr/

Open Education:
- Join the Open Education Café this 12th May around advocacy and capacity building organized by @SPARC_Europe and the European Network of Open Education Librarians: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7452321043102457856/

Help us to detect upcoming events by tagging this page, commenting on the publication or through any means. You can join and share them directly on the matrix server of the "community" (still a lonely initiative so happy to see you there!): https://matrix.to/#/#open-models-unfoundation:matrix.org

These events publications aims to promote and highlight open models activities globally ❤️‍🔥 Stay tuned about open models by following @Open Models Unfondation!

Author: @simon
Credit image: Yvette de Wit, Unsplash

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Creation of a new job board around open models directly on the knowledge base: https://open-models.org/jobs/

Explore jobs related to open science, open education, open software, open hardware... All in the same place which you can also follow using an RSS feed 😉

The aim is to create a collaborative job board; if your organization has any offers or if you find one online! Please share them directly on the GitHub repository or communicate it by any means like in comments here.

The current offers:
- Various offers to set up for the founding team of the European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (@Digital Commons EDIC): Operations Manager; Programme & Technical Manager; Ecosystem & Partnerships Manager; Office, Events & Communications Coordinator
- Librarian Research Support Specialist at the @University of Luxembourg to support researchers on their open science and open data practices. A job that will certainly be about being FAIR.
- Project Manager (M/F/X) Open Digital Publishing at @University of Liège for the development and coordination of open scientific publishing projects and the management of publishing portals
- Commons Project Manager for Socially Responsible Digital Reuse Initiatives at @Emmaüs France to organize and lead a national network by developing shared tools and a shared governance structure.

It is offers found manually through monitoring of social media, we may gather more together to help people find a job or support the growth of open projects. Will be more and more interesting for everyone as the surrounding community grow.

For more technicality and to follow open data/open standards, all job offers are based on a JSON-LD format following the JobPosting standard from scheme.org. It may enable interoperability and reuse of the data elsewhere 🤷

Let's build a good place to share jobs around open models?

Author: @simon

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Hello World 👋 This is not the launch of a new foundation but just a space to federate (and communicate on) communities around open models and digital commons.

Why Open Models Unfoundation? It aims to be a place to work at the intersection of all of these openness movements.

To share initiatives, to support education, to connect, to get news, to open minds, to find any kind of support thanks to a growing community!

The creation of this space is closely related to the project of knowledge base on open models and digital commons: https://open-models.org/

If you're active around these open things and want to support technologies built on sharing and collaboration, it may be an interesting place to be and follow. A complementary vehicle to push forward this vast and shared mission 🌍

How should communities around open models be organized? What Open Models Unfoundation may be in the current landscape?

Join this brand new matrix server to chat with us(/me!): https://matrix.to/#/#open-models-unfoundation:matrix.org

Author: @simon

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The ongoing transformation of universities and higher education through open models. Article by SPARC Europe : « Connecting the Opens (IV): Institutional strategies to embed openness in Higher Education ».

Link to publication: https://zenodo.org/records/19737561

Some excerpts:

Certain universities are now embedding these priorities within comprehensive institutional strategies. A common direction among institutions is consolidating previously fragmented initiatives into more unified frameworks.

As stated by one leader:“University strategy and new digital learning strategy have brought open research, scholarship and education together. University strategy emphasises community, collaboration and impact.”

Strategic planning in this area often revolves around a set of core dimensions that institutionsare beginning to address in a coordinated way.

These include:
- The development of [open] infrastructures
- The strengthening of skills
- The alignment of reward and recognition systems
- The clarification of roles and responsibilities
- The establishment of governance frameworks and standards, alongside the identification of sustainable funding opportunities.

Collaborative development of open-source software across institutions is also emerging as a more efficient and sustainable model.

5 key actions:
1. Advocate for a holistic and integrated "open by design" approach
2. Champion strategic investment in foundational open infrastructure and support
3. Drive cultural change through incentivization and recognition of open practices
4. Prioritise active engagement and co-creation with students
5. Position the institution as a leader in the global open ecosystem

Others are embedding openness within broader institutional transformations, such as digitalisation or data literacy initiatives, recognising itas a core component of the contemporary university.

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🇸🇽 Going back to (Filipino) school. This week I did an introduction to open models for IT students (and staff) at the College of Arts and Sciences in Inabanga, Bohol.

My intervention took place as part of the Bridging Youth Through Technology Empowerment (BYTE) Training Program initiated recently by the CVISNet foundation that aims to bring some fundamental concepts of digital technologies: https://www.projectbyte.org/

A sharing of knowledge over 2 days with 2h30 of truly formal education:

- 1h of theory during the first day where I try to bring an overview of these different openness movements, explaining that these sharing and collaboration practices around digital resources are emerging and growing in importance in a variety of fields. As they are IT students and the BYTE program trains them with Linux, I went through the history of open source software with this philosophical conflict between copyright and copyleft, key moments like Richard Stallman's launch of the free software movement leading to the Cathedral and the Bazaar and emergence of "open source" terminology, introducing them briefly the controversial @osi and their "Open Source Definition". To let them understand that the software running the majority of computers in the world was initially an IT student project! (cf https://open-models.org/content/history.html)

- Followed the next day by a workshop of 1h30 to start an open software library around the @OpenAlex API. A moment to let them experiment the setting of open software production around a shared repository for the class while using an open science tool to explore these ways to access research. A way to truly live this complementarity between open models. (Workshop guidelines: https://open-models.org/workshops/openalex-library.html)

As foundational but underexplained topics of digital technologies, we open discussion around how we could introduce more knowledge related to open models within curriculums, whether it's the BYTE curriculum or the ones of the school.

Part of the challenge is about training pedagogical teams to let them truly understand these dynamics to enable them to slowly integrate and adapt these concepts more autonomously into their educational work. Will probably go back to this Bohol island to try to empower them while continuing to build this knowledge on open models and digital commons to be able to rely on it! (https://open-models.org)

Trying currently to connect with universities and schools in the Philippines.

In tech, there is this common idea of trying to build the next Google. I invited them instead to dream bigger and try to build the next Wikipedia, the next Linux or the next OpenAlex!

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