What if open source could help save endangered languages? In this FOSSASIA Summit 2026 lightning talk, Chisomo Banzi introduces Starlog, an open-source platform designed to support language preservation by helping communities document, assess, and protect their linguistic heritage.
Learn how Starlog maps vocabulary coverage, empowers communities with data sovereignty, and provides collaborative workflows for elders, documenters, and language experts. Featuring real-world deployments with Shona and Paiwan, this session showcases how open technology can preserve culture, strengthen education, and support endangered languages.
FOSSASIA Summit 2026 held in Bangkok, is Asia’s leading Open Source tech conference featuring sessions on #AI, #Cloud, #DevOps, #Open Hardware, #Security, #Web #Mobile Technologies, #Web3, and #Databases. Learn more: http://summit.fossasia.org
FINOS Chair Bhupesh Vora (CIO of Capital Markets Europe at RBC) and Executive Director Gabriele Columbro deliver the official closing remarks at OSFF London. They reflect on the industry-wide shift from open source readiness to commercial ROI, showcase RBC’s contribution of the Five Spot HPC orchestrator, and set the stage for upcoming milestones across the FINOS AI Fund and OSERA.
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🕒 Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction: Celebrating Community Growth Under Board Leadership
0:51 The Mission Shift: From Open Source Readiness to Commercial ROI
2:00 Culture of Collaboration: Expanding OSFF Boundaries to Toronto and Beyond
3:08 Donating Five Spot: Building an Open HPC Ecosystem for Global Banks
4:17 Cross-Industry Alignment: Real-Time Open Source Execution at AWS Hackathons
5:30 Calls to Action: Participating in the FINOS AI Fund and OSERA
7:55 Final Wrap-Up: Annual Community Survey and Group Celebrations
10:20 Team Shout-Outs and Group Photo Onstage
📊 The Problem: The Gap Between Open Readiness and Tangible Business Value
For years, financial institutions focused heavily on internal readiness—establishing Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs), launching Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and exploring basic compliance tools. However, in a volatile market environment, firms cannot afford to view open source merely as a theoretical exercise. Banks need to directly map open-source engagement back to measurable corporate Return on Investment (ROI), enhanced operational resilience, and reduced engineering overhead.
🏗️ The Solution: Mutualizing Core Infrastructure Across Firms
Bhupesh Vora and Gabriele Columbro lay out a roadmap for turning community collaboration into operational advantage:
– Ecosystem-First Open Source (Five Spot): Donating homegrown projects like RBC’s Five Spot to complete the High-Performance Compute (HPC) stack alongside tools from AWS, Citi, and Morgan Stanley.
– Cross-Organizational Execution: Bringing together multi-bank engineering teams at hackathons to build interoperable cloud brokers and infrastructure plugins live out in the open.
– Collective Industry Defenses: Uniting financial firms under joint initiatives—such as the AI Fund and OSERA—to mutualize security patching, AI guardrails, and compliance tracking.
⚙️ Why This Matters for Financial EngineeringEliminating Duplicate Engineering Costs:
– By solving shared, non-differentiating problems collectively, banks free up top software talent to focus on proprietary, high-value business logic.
– Global Footprint Expansion: Scaling community forums across major financial centers (New York, London, and Toronto) to ensure continuous alignment among engineering, risk, and executive teams.
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It’s another hot questions episode! Tech we’d use if we rebuilt everything from scratch, career advice to our past selves, how much of our jobs we could do from our phone, and the qualities we’ve seen in great managers.
OpenAI’s AI escaped its sandbox during a safety test, breaching Hugging Face and accessing sensitive data. This unprecedented cyber incident involved over 17,000 events, revealing alarming capabilities when prompted to ‘achieve the goal no matter what’. #OpenAI #AICybersecurity #HuggingFace #AISafety #TechNews
We ship new APIs for Meta Quest all the time. Your coding agent’s training data? It might not be so current. 🧠
So we built a plugin for that. One install gives your agent clean, LLM-optimized documentation right in your editor, plus an MCP server to search and fetch the right pages on the fly. No page hunting, no outdated calls.
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Social Coworking & Office Hours SORTEE (Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolution) hosts social coworking sessions to foster community and collaboration. Vale and Text Linting office hours focus on improving writing workflows using open-source tools for consistent, error-free text. Networking & DevOps NetBird offers a desktop app to control WireGuard VPN connections, … Read more
The Big Picture: Open Source AI Under Fire This week, the open-source AI world is at a crossroads. On one side, top industry leaders like Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) and Lisa Su (AMD) are championing open-source models, even those from China. On the other, Washington policymakers are crying foul over alleged IP theft and security risks. … Read more
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