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The MyData Awards 2024 – 2025 are now open for nominations! 

Nominate any individuals or organisations now at https://go.mydata.org/nominate! Self-nominations are allowed and encouraged.You may make as many nominations as you like. Hello to all members, interested people and the wider MyData community. Following our launch event in June (recording here if you missed it), we are pleased to announce that our brand new award programme … Read more

Open code for closed services: The Open Source paradox of the cloud

In recent years, several high-profile, single-vendor Open Source projects made the news by switching to more restrictive licenses. Some saw this as a manifestation of evil and greed, questioning the single-vendor model entirely; others interpreted it as a sign of the growing economic unsustainability of Open Source in the current market structure. Both arguments have … Read more

Meltemi, The first open-source Large Language Model for Greek

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of AI, opening up new opportunities for research and industry applications. However, LLMs demonstrate impressive capabilities only in high-resource languages, in particular in English, while their performance varies substantially across different languages. Especially in the case of low-resourced languages, such as Greek, existing open-source LLMs are underperforming … Read more

Defend FOSS: From innovation to positive change, we need to remind the world what we’re about.

Open Source technology, practices, and thinking have revolutionized how we innovate, collaborate, and do business. The impact goes beyond our daily work and paying our rent. Open source is everywhere; we won! But there’s a downside. We have been so busy with our success that we have forgotten to tell people what makes us and … Read more

14th Call for Proposals for Production Projects for access to national high performance computing system

GRNET – National Infrastructures for Research and Technology announces the fourteenth (14th) “Call for Proposals for Production Projects” for access to ARIS national high performance computing system (https://hpc.grnet.gr). In order to allow full and equal access to the ARIS national high performance computing system, GRNET hereby invites scientists and researchers working in Greek educational and/or research … Read more

GFOSS presents ACROSS at the MyData 2022 conference in Helsinki

Open Technologies Alliance – GFOSS will present the EU funded project ACROSS (Horizon 2020) during the first day of the MyData 2022 conference on June 21-22  in Helsinki. GFOSS is an associate third party in the ACROSS project, a three year research and innovation EU program aiming to create an enabling ecosystem for interoperable cross … Read more

Free Software Awards: Nominate those who help us live liberation by November 30th

The dedication of the developers, documentation writers, community organizers, and volunteers of the free software movement is what has helped us all live liberation in the years the free software movement has been active. Just using free software makes you part of our collective journey to freedom, but some go above and beyond in their … Read more

From Open Software to Open Culture

Opportunities and challenges of open source to support the United Nations mandate Side Event at General Assembly High Level Week to Explore Potential of Open Source Technologies for the United Nations By definition, open source development is collaborative, inclusive and revolutionary—and open software has become ubiquitous. Whenever we are online, we are benefiting from open software. … Read more