Annual European conference for open source developers and communities, run by the Linux Foundation.
Linus Torvalds says he likes using AI, though three-quarters of a day of kernel maintainer talks went to making AI generation and review less stressful. Teams writing an AI policy can turn his line on serious code into a test of who ends up checking the output.
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Percona CEO Peter Farkas says open-weight models lack open source's freedoms, even as they carried 56% of Vercel AI Gateway tokens in August. For teams choosing a model, the license and what was actually released now belong in the review.
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Linux Foundation Europe's Thierry Carrez said at the Open Source Summit in Prague that switching to open source alone will not end Europe's dependence. European groups supply 15% of governance participation, The Stack reported, so teams that switch adopt projects governed mostly from outside Europe.
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Google has moved its Docsy documentation theme to the Linux Foundation and added experimental features that serve pages to AI agents. For teams on the theme, feeding docs to agents is now a setting, so the work moves to keeping the pages agents act on current.
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Google's Docsy theme, on about 2,200 projects by the end of 2024, is moving to the Linux Foundation while it adds output built for AI agents. Teams on the theme now decide, site by site, whether their docs also get published for machine readers.
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