Stefano Maffulli

We are inviting proposals for talks about “FOSS Office Software and Suites“ at FOSDEM 2027, which will take place on 30-31 January in Brussels: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10... #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Matrix is working on Raven, which is a new open source project to connect your Matrix deployment to Coop and Osprey, the open source trust and safety tools from ROOST! 🙌

Holy moly!

Truck drivers and farmers in Puglia, Calabria and Sicily have blocked roads for a week to protest price hikes. Stores ran out of fuel and food. No word on the national news.

Take training out of copyright, charge a levy on commercial use, and open source developers and big tech train on the same body of human knowledge, while commercial success pays society back https://www.maffulli.net/2026/10/06/take-copyright-out-of-the-ai-pipeline/ #ai #copyright #data #OpenSource

If recent license announcements have you rethinking your team's password manager, here is a useful read! We compared Passbolt and Bitwarden on sharing, governance, and obviously, open source licensing: www.passbolt.com/vs/bitwarden...

Brilliant hack

Linagora and other European #OpenSource #AI proponents consider Nvidia Nemo open source enough to build business in it.

A definition of sovereignty by Christoph Bornschein, @capgeminiinvent.bsky.social at #InTheLoop26 @n8n.io

Two days at #InTheLoop2026 with @getgrist.com Come to our booth to get special chocolate! And talk to the team about partnership opportunities.

🚨Make your voices heard & #KILLTHECOOKIEBANNER. 🍪 The European Commission wants to remove the ANNOYING COOKIE BANNER,, but of course Google is lobbying against this. 🍪🙄 Say no here → killthecookiebanner.eu/take-action/ Find out more → tuta.com/blog/why-eu-...

I'm headed to Berlin for the @n8n.io conference this week. Happy to meet in person to talk about workflow automation with @getgrist.com and sovereignty.

Digital sovereignty has stopped being a slogan in Europe. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/lessons-from-luxembourg-digital-sovereignty-gets-down-to-work/ #ai #cybersecurity #DecentralizedTech #education #government #OpenSource #PublicSector #security

Alan Turing asked whether machines can think in 1950, then set the question aside. www.epistechnology.org/the-turing-b... #AI

If you're in Berlin and would like to meet some of the Grist team, we'll be in town next week for @n8n.io 's In the Loop conference. n8n.io/intheloop/ Say hello to @maffulli.net and other Gristers – there's a lot to talk about!

The balance that held the early Internet together cracked with Web 2.0 and the emergence of big tech; AI finished the job. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/10/06/take-copyright-out-of-the-ai-pipeline/ #ai #copyright #data #OpenSource

The IETF AI Preferences working group is the backbone for all of them. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/10/06/take-copyright-out-of-the-ai-pipeline/ #ai #copyright #data #OpenSource

Big announcement at the Open Source Conference Luxembourg: a new license, modern, easy to understand, network activated and copyleft: CLEAR. By @carlopiana.bsky.social comments on gitlab.com/newcopyleft/... #OpenSource

Take copyright out of the AI pipeline https://www.maffulli.net/2026/10/06/take-copyright-out-of-the-ai-pipeline/ #ai #copyright #data #OpenSource

CC also said in public what I’ve been arguing since 2024: copyright is the wrong tool for governing AI https://www.maffulli.net/2026/10/06/take-copyright-out-of-the-ai-pipeline/ #ai #copyright #data #OpenSource

Join us for 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, a multidisciplinary gathering designed for researchers, funders, technologists, and policymakers to meet, exchange ideas & make new connections. 📅 June 16–18, 2027 | Montreal 👉 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁 | 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝘀 www.convergescience.org #𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳 #OpenScience #CallFor…

At the conference in Luxembourg I'll propose a way to restore the broken balance between AI big tech and Open Source: take training out of copyright, in exchange for a levy on commercial deployment, and require the trained weights to come back to the commons. Come meet me to hear the details.

"If you knew you had an advanced cyber capable model, without safety tuning, doing cyber evals, why weren't you running in a physically airgapped network?" is a question I'd really like a good answer to. With "ok, once you knew the risk, why didn't you start doing that?" as an immediate followup.

@element.io is a good product. If you try to push it down the throat of people used to calendars integrated in emails, in chat, into documents, they'll call anything s**t. 20+ years of people trained to use Microsoft products following the ECDL: what do you expect? www.politico.eu/article/eu-...

GristCon is starting in 5 minutes! Hop onto our Discord server to join. Full agenda: https://www.getgrist.com/gristcon-2026/#agenda

The whole system depended on the ability to read requirements out of the database, feed them into a document generation pipeline, and push the resulting PDFs back into the database.

I'll be speaking here! See you there.

Preparing my talk at the Open Source Conference in Luxembourg, I updated my article tracking how the open web is building guardrails around AI crawlers. News from the @IETF AIPref working group and @CreativeCommons Signals www.maffulli.net/the-landscap... #AI #OpenData #OpenSource #Training

Regulators have to act on distribution and access, on what a license permits and who can get the files, because that’s the only lever still standing once the weights are loose. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/08/25/the-license-is-all-you-need-open-source-ai/ #ai #data #OpenSource

A table from @Mozilla.ai's State of Open Source AI v1.1 shows that the weights' license is the most important factor in the OSAI debate. Proof? See how Thomson Reuters created Thomson LLM As I said: The license is all you need www.maffulli.net/2026/08/25/the-license-is-all-you-need-open-source-ai

I spent two years leading the process that identified what “Open Source” should mean when the thing being opened is a foundation model instead of a codebase. My current thoughts of the issue, 2 years after the OSAID v1.0 #ai #data #OpenSource

Most cloud platforms assume you're renting someone else's infrastructure. OpenStack flips that: compute, storage and networking for VMs, bare metal and containers, behind one API or dashboard. Walmart and China Mobile run on it. @openstack.org openalternative.co/openstack

The generic term "Open source sustainability" collapses a varied ecosystem into a single specimen: that can't lead to good policies. You can't treat Postgres, Curl and @getGrist.com or @passbolt.bsky.social the same way. More on www.getgrist.com/blog/stop-sa...

The words “open source sustainability” seem to imply that the whole open source ecosystem has a systemic problem. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/stop-saying-open-source-sustainability/ #business #OpenSource #sustainability

You can't put @postgresql.org @npmjs.com and @passbolt.bsky.social in the same category. Open Source as a whole *is* sustainable. Users, customers and policy makers are confused by this generic term.

My talk at the Open Source Conference Luxembourg will cover the latest on AI Preference Signals and a recommendation on how to get out of the AI training conundrum. pretalx.com/open-source-.... See you on Oct 7 #AI #OpenSource

If, like me, you’d never heard of SCP until this week and are struggling to figure out what it is and how it relates to CC, @technollama.bsky.social has done us a solid: www.technollama.co.uk/v-h-s-scp-wh...

Live webinar this Thursday: Building a complete app with Grist + MCP https://www.getgrist.com/webinars/building-a-complete-app-with-grist-mcp/

I'm finding that the most convenient way to build custom applications is to build them on top of a solid framework. @getgrist.com offers exactly that: the app-serving platform so I don't need to setup and secure another server, the authZ/N and more. Follow @anaisconce.bsky.social webinar #MCP #AI

A study of cybersecurity literature on open-source software and AI – GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-study-of-cybersecurity-literature-on-open-source-software-and-ai/a-study-of-cybersecurity-literature-on-open-source-software-and-ai

Mautic is not begging or complaining about the sustainability of Open Source. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/07/23/mautic-asks-for-money-the-smart-way/ #mautic #OpenSource

Meta Muse Glimmer’s license is Open Source https://www.maffulli.net/2026/08/11/meta-muse-glimmers-license-is-open-source/ #ai #llama #meta #OpenSource

Mautic asks for money the smart way https://www.maffulli.net/2026/07/23/mautic-asks-for-money-the-smart-way/ #mautic #OpenSource

Sanguinetti could hand the system to a non-technical team member and expect them to add requirements, update test results, and trigger PDF generation without training.