Standing Together on Shared Challenges - Report on the 2023 Open Source Congress

More broadly, concerns about As open source leaders gathered in Geneva, discussions naturally cybersecurity and critical infrastructure have led to assessments turned to the consequences of recent regulatory actions on the of the role of open source solutions in national and corporate open source ecosystem, the need to educate the global policy cybersecurity strategies. [...] The lack of engagement with the policy about open source components in the wake of the Log4Shell community, in turn, translates to a lack of consideration for security incident but noted that those efforts merely scratched the the unique needs and perspectives of the OSS ecosystem, its surface. [...] The authors conclude that “the rise in reported incidents for “new and capable regulatory authorities,” a “robust auditing is likely evidence of both the increasing degree to which AI is and certification ecosystem,” and “well-resourced institutions becoming intermeshed in the real world and a growing awareness for coping with the dramatic economic and political disruptions” of the ways in which A. [...] Now it is up to the ecosystem’s leaders to rally behind the imperative to collaborate and to continue the vital work of the open source community. [...] As one participant aptly declared, “The collaboration we are doing here is to support the hundreds of thousands of developers who are producing billions of dollars of software and changing the world in the process.” STANDING TOGETHER ON SHARED CHALLENGES 26 Acknowledgements The author would like to acknowledge the contributions of the 53 open source community leaders who gathered in Geneva and who.