Open source sovereignty gets down to the boring business of making it work

AI and digital sovereignty dominated this year's Open Source Summit Europe. But beyond the AI noise, the sovereignty discussions offered something useful: practical plans for putting open source to work. The recurring theme of digital sovereignty started right from the first day's keynotes, with Geopolitics, Sovereignty, and the Fight to Stay Open, by the Linux Foundation's Nithya Ruff and Johan Linaker from Research Institutes of Sweden, whose name is considerably longer than its URL: ri.se. This isn't just some European issue. Ruff stressed that it mattered "from Canada, to Sierra Leone, to Trinidad and Tobago." This was followed by Open Source Security as the Foundation of European Sovereignty, focusing on OSS supply chains. Then ORBIT Launchpad: Building the Due Diligence Bridge Between Manufacturers and Open Source, with speakers from Dell and Microsoft discussing OpenSSF's efforts to build catalogs of open source components to help companies achieve CRA compliance, such as CRABFOSC – the CRA Baseline For Open Source Consumption. …