Contributor health, recognition, onboarding, and the human practices that sustain open collaboration.
Across years
| Theme | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community | 4 | 7 | 19 |
UN Open Source Week 2026
- UN Tech Over Hack-A-Thon
- Maintain-A-Thon
- Responsible GenAI at Scale: Open Source Commons and Governance
- What AI Changes for Open Source Risk and Resilience
- Open Source Community Drinks NYC
- CHAOSS Breakfast
- Women Building Digital: The GovStack Women in GovTech Challenge
- Reception: The Global Case for Open in AI: How Open Source and Open Standards Build Trust Across Borders
- UN ODET — Data Governance for the Public Good: Equity, Openness and Community Stewardship
- Data Governance for the Public Good: Equity, Openness and Community Stewardship
- **UN ODET** — Data Governance for the Public Good: Equity, Openness and Community Stewardship
- GitHub's Strengthening Global Open Source Collaboration Amid Rising Nationalism
- Reception
- Community-Led Side Events
- Building the Next Generation: models and methods for growing capacity via the next generation of open source contributors and contributions
- DPG Showcase & Networking – Community Event
- DPG Showcase & Networking – Community Event (More details TBA) Growing Inclusive Digital Commons: Open Solutions, Communities, and AI in Practice
- DPG Showcase & Networking – Community Event Growing Inclusive Digital Commons: Open Solutions, Communities, and AI in Practice
- Community-Driven Sessions on Open Source and Digital Collaboration
UN Open Source Week 2025
- Opening Plenary
- Edit-A-Thon — Knowledge as a Commons
- Maintain-A-Thon — Sustaining What We Build
- Open Source Skills in the AI Era — Perspectives from the European Open Source Academy
- How They Did It: A Look Behind Newly Launched OSPOs
- Scaling Open Source Principles Internally: The InnerSource Journey
- Learning from Open Source: DPI for Smaller States
UN Open Source Week 2024
Organizations active on this theme
People who spoke on this theme
Reading list — standards & references
Quotes
It was powerful to see live edits happening at the UN and to know that the UN cares about the future of the digital world, an evolving topic we should all be paying attention to.— Edit-A-Thon volunteer, UN Open Source Week 2025
open source should be open to everyone and everyone should benefit— Bernardo Mariano Junior, UN Open Source Week 2025
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