<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm forwarding along info on this virtual program. It may be a good idea for one or two reps from the project board to participate. I'm hoping to participate but, unfortunately, may need to miss the first hour.</div><div><br></div><div>Kathy</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div>Kathy Lussier<div>she/her<br><div>Executive Director</div><div>NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange</div><div>Danvers, MA</div><div>978-777-8844 x201</div><div><a href="http://www.noblenet.org" target="_blank">www.noblenet.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Kathy Lussier</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:kmlussier@gmail.com" target="_blank">kmlussier@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: SustainOSS Virtual Forum on March 13th<br>To: <<a href="mailto:klussier@noblenet.org" target="_blank">klussier@noblenet.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sustain Organizers</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:hola@sustainoss.org" target="_blank">hola@sustainoss.org</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM<br>Subject: SustainOSS Virtual Forum on March 13th<br>To: <<a href="mailto:kmlussier@gmail.com" target="_blank">kmlussier@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div><u></u>
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"> took place almost 8 years ago. Open Source as a field has shifted dramatically, as governments, international actors, and large organizations are now deeply involved, and more critical digital infrastructure depend on open source components. AI is rapidly evolving the ways in which open source is produced and conceptualized, there is increased influence and control exerted by institutional stakeholders, and security has become a key concern in sustaining critical digital infrastructure. The Forum will explore these and many additional facets of sustainability.</span></span></span></span></p><p><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">At the SustainOSS Virtual Forum, we will survey the challenges, evolution, and surprises that are recurrently navigated but rarely documented or collectively validated in the process of running open source projects, program offices, or policy networks populated by researchers, developers, and policymakers. Above all, we invite you to share your experiences, ideas and concerns around sustainability across a range of scales, engage in respectful discussion, and envision goals and partnerships we can collectively embrace in order to sustain our open source ecosystems.</span></span></span></span></p><p><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">The interactive agenda will be co-designed in collaboration with confirmed participants in the time leading up to the event.</span></span></span></span></p><p><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;direction:ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">We encourage you to join us as we explore the who, the what and the how of realizing a sustainable present and future for open source. 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