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FOSDEM is such a sprawling event.
Studyhow the system works and inspect its components.
Modifythe system to change its recommendations, predictions or decisions to adapt to your needs.
Sharethe system with or without modifications for any purpose.
Post-FOSDEM, the OSI continues to work on the definition.
Stay up to date and get involved athttps://opensource.org/deepdive/drafts.
This is to ensure that model content is more European-focused and includes a wider gamut of European languages.
Announcing the initiative, Michel-Marie Maudet, COO of Linagora, showed a staggering slidein his talk.
Open doesnt mean easy, and working with models still requires significant time and resources.
Hunter demonstrated one example asking for a recipe in French.
It would start the response in French and halfway switch to English.
The recipe was even originally a French dish.
Sustainability
When I started my career in tech, compute resources wereexpensive.
Except they werent actually as cheap as we thought.
The recent budgetary cutbacks in tech are causing many to question decisions made when money was more freely available.
However, this abundance of infrastructure also involves another cost.
One of my favourite talkswas from Florian Queze, one of the key engineers behind the tool.
With lots of information to digest and react to, both FOSDEM and SOOCON held deep-dive sessions.
For open-source software, this is complicated, as who is really responsible?
The creator of the open-source software or its implementor?
Many open-source projects have no legal entity that anyone can hold responsible for problems or harm.
The growing importance of data
Open source isused more and in more places than ever before.
Open-source software and hardware used to be enough to encompass the community and its aims and concerns.
Now its Open-source software, hardware, and data.
It needs to maintain regulatory data if it has any usage in the EU.
Thus, the continent is in an excellent position to lead the change.
Story byChris Chinchilla
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