This month: Open Source AI. The tools that belong to everyone, built by everyone, accountable to everyone. We're bringing together the practitioners, advocates, and builders who are keeping the internet open, the models transparent, and the knowledge free.
In a world of proprietary black boxes and corporate capture, open source is one of the few bets still running. Come find out who's holding the line.
Rachel Horst
Andrea Mills: https://internetarchivecanada.org Preserving the Open Internet
Andrea is the Executive Director of Internet Archive Canada, 20 years in and still quietly doing some of the most important infrastructure work in the country. While everyone else is locking knowledge behind paywalls, Andrea and the team are archiving the open internet, digitizing collections, and building public AI infrastructure with datasets that actually belong to the public.
Earlier this year, Brewster Kahle and Andrea announced the BC Data Center is live and ready for scale — building data mining hubs for public AI, climate models, and large language models for small languages. This is what open source looks like at the institutional level.
Andrea Mills is the Executive Director of Internet Archive Canada. Andrea joined the Internet Archive in the spring of 2006. In her role as Executive Director, Andrea is responsible for coordinating Internet Archive efforts in Canada, with a focus on building a Canadian Digital Library by and for Canadians. Andrea's personal approach is centred on accessible reading formats and free, equitable access to public and government information for all.
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Open Source Theme: Steve DiPaolo